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There are many different kinds of affordable housing. Shelterforce reports on the common and no-so-common variations, how programs are working, important policies and conversations about funding it, and more.
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Proposed Change to Rural Housing Program Would Address Looming Preservation Crisis
Housing affordability is not just an urban problem. Section 515, the federal rural rental assistance program, would be extended in the proposed federal housing bills—with an important rule change.
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Bringing Victims of Foreclosure Back Home
It was often disappointing during the long housing boom to see the affordable housing stock continue to dwindle even as CDCs continued to build more supply. In a somewhat similar […]
New Ideas For Strengthening Federal Rental Assistance
With housing stability increasingly important for families under economic duress, additional rental funds could help to fund local housing authorities in order to assist families in need. New thinking could result in a plan aimed to help families get back into the mainstream, as well place them on a on a path toward increased personal wealth.
Affordable Housing In Urban Centers Not Enough
Affordable housing is being built in New Jersey’s urban centers, and why not? There, you have the low- and moderate-income demographic who qualify for affordable housing, and you have all […]
NJ’s COAH: Finding Common (and Vacant) Ground
As New Jersey’s Council on Affordable Housing, or COAH, continues to defend its plan to use a growth-share model to encourage towns to build working class and affordable housing, we’re […]
MacArthur Foundation Announces Multi-State Affordable Housing Preservation Effort
The following was released Thursday by the MacArthur Foundation. Seizing the opportunity to make needed long-term investments in the face of a weak economy, 12 states and cities are launching […]
The Trailer Park as Affordable Urban Housing?
Where I grew up, a lot of people lived in mobile homes, as a way to enter the housing market at an affordable price. Still do. And now there is […]
Keep Single Family Homes in Mind
I enjoyed looking at the examples of smart growth in NRDC’s new online feature, Picturing Smart Growth. Thanks to Kaid Benfield for bringing this great resource to everyone’s attention! I […]
Housing a Rising Homeless Population: Female Veterans
In Dayton, a 27-unit apartment building on the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Campus has been renovated to serve as housing for female veterans, one of about a dozen such facilities around the country.
Considering the Townhouse
Driving along I-95 from Virginia to New England, I noticed how many townhouse-style developments have cropped up where apartment complexes would have been built a decade ago. Here is an […]
A Few Slightly Radical Ideas to Ponder
Here’s a handful of somewhat radical planning ideas to ponder as we enter the Great Mini-Depression: I am wondering what sort of innovations will go mainstream in this strange new […]
Density Revisited
This past summer, I wrote a feature for Shelterforce about a community where a CDC was battling a NIMBY mentality. The CDC was trying to build neighborhood support for over […]
Talk About Aging In Place…
A community with a sound housing policy would ideally provide low- and moderate-income housing for aging seniors on fixed incomes so that they can downsize while remaining in their community. For seniors of greater means, market rate senior housing near town amenities should be an option. But with The New York Times Saturday reporting that aging in place might, in fact, be a burden, this whole ideal is going out the window.