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.
The governor and former mayor said compassion for those who are homeless “isn’t allowing a person suffering a severe psychotic break or from a lethal substance abuse addiction to literally drift towards death on our streets and sidewalks.”
Governor Greg Abbott has tweeted videos that he calls evidence of the homeless threatening public safety in Texas’ capital city, and urged his nearly 330,000 followers to share more.
Between half and three-quarters of the developable land in much of the state is zoned for single-family housing, making denser growth off-limits there — aside from garage conversions or backyard units.
New York State’s ESSHI permanent housing grants will add 6,000 housing units for homeless individuals with vulnerabilities such as mental health issues or substance abuse.
The city and county of Los Angeles is funding new supportive housing projects. The Community Housing Partnership in San Francisco has been showing it works since the 1990s.
While opioid funding took many of the 2018 Omnibus Spending Bill headlines, there were more wins for local government, and some notable absences.
HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program is designed to help address the capital backlog in public housing by leveraging private sector investment to preserve affordable housing.
Lead paint and other safety hazards in Detroit rental housing will be addressed this year as the city launches a website and compliance program designed to target 80,000 unregistered properties.
The Trump 2019 budget repeats last year’s fraud argument in its goal to eliminate LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which also funds cooling needs in summer.
Housing agencies must ensure that all Section 9 multi-family housing units comply with the federal smoke free public housing policy effective July 31, 2018.
The Elevation Community Land Trust is poised to garner more than 700 houses across the Denver metro, retaining the land and selling homes at a fraction of the price for low-income residents.
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Through USI’s MAGIC program, the College of Nursing and Health Professions aims to study multigenerational housing and intergenerational communities through a tiny home model called a Minka.
The cities of Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and others have adopted resolutions, passed zoning provisions and created partnerships to establish tiny house villages to shelter the homeless
As Houston remained in disaster recovery mode, Mayor Sylvester Turner announced a proposal to restrict development below the 500-year floodplain along with temporary transitional housing strategies.
Cities across the U.S. are working with the VA to end veteran homelessness. Though La Crosse, Wisconsin, thought it had achieved the goal, the city stayed on target when it discovered another homeless veteran.
In 2017, HUD supported a series of 100-Day Challenges to house homeless youth in cities and counties nationwide, ending youth homelessness for hundreds at a time.
For the 2017 CoC allocation, HUD reallocated at least $90 million and is providing more than $200 million to new homeless housing projects.
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