Housing
Housing is a critical area of focus for local and state government agencies, addressing the need for affordable, safe, and accessible living conditions for all residents. Governments are tasked with developing policies and programs that support housing development, zoning, and homelessness prevention. This directory offers articles on housing and related topics like planning, which examines the design and regulation of the physical spaces in which communities live and work, ensuring sustainable and equitable growth.
Many of Fresno’s poorest neighborhoods rank highest for a wide range of health risks, a fact public health experts say is no accident
There are 1,686 public housing units reserved for seniors and disabled people in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and several times as many people are waiting for a vacancy.
For the cities of San Diego and Chula Vista, Calif., the goal is to walk away from the initiative with a five-year strategic plan that will help mitigate the cost of living, improve access to childcare, address food and housing insecurity, and create a workforce pipeline for the region.
As the city gears up a multibillion-dollar push to house the homeless, officials are showcasing plans to turn an empty South Bronx lot into apartments enhanced with help for residents contending with mental illness
The City and County of Honolulu is the largest housing authority in Hawai‘i administering a HCVP. Honolulu received a score of 145 points (or 100%) and is designated a High Performer
Nebraska will give an old state veterans’ home property to the city of Grand Island, which is losing the facility to make way for a new home in Kearney
The Interbay encampment can hold 80 people; Ballard can accommodate 50.
Prescott Area Shelter Services renovated a building to provide temporary housing for six homeless families thanks to a Community Development Block Grant
The city’s public housing authority is moving aging tenants out of homes where they’ve lived for decades, renovating them and selling them to wealthy buyers
OBAG provides funding for qualifying transportation projects to reward local jurisdictions that plan for and produce housing
Over the next 15 years, the city will create 15,000 supportive apartments paired with social services to help domestic abuse victims, veterans and drug addicts
Many cities have passed laws - with increasing frequency in recent years - to restrict outdoor sleeping, begging and other activities linked to homelessness
Communities throughout Virginia have made vast improvements in their homelessness response and housing assistance systems
Advocates for the homeless see social media chronicling as harassment while organizers aim to illustrate a pressing social problem and encourage solutions
Portland’s popularity has had a surprising effect: Those who helped make it cool can’t afford to live here anymore
Homelessness in Hawaii has grown, leaving the state with 487 homeless per 100,000 people, the nation’s highest rate per capita, ahead of New York and Nevada
In LA social services experts are tracing a significant portion of the city’s homeless population back to jails, foster homes, hospitals and state prisons
Many people who complained a federal insurance program shortchanged them after Superstorm Sandy hit are getting some cash three years later
Many homes still need to be repaired or rebuilt. Crucial work to shore up infrastructure is ongoing, or still hasn’t started
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