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.
Sgt. Ray Kelly, spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, said the department is considering billing the property’s owner -- real estate investment firm Wedgewood -- for the “tens of thousands of dollars” associated with enforcing the eviction.
There are four vacant homes for every homeless person in Oakland. These women are saying enough.
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.”
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.
Key affordable rental housing market provisions were preserved in tax reform, but housing credits and other provisions could push some investors out.
With millions of households nationwide unable to afford rent, Gov1 uncovered which states are doing the best to address the epidemic.
Are 21st Century Villages -- designed to attract Baby Boomers and millennials -- the answer to the housing crisis in Boston and other metro regions?
Trulia has found that in some metros, buy versus rent is cheaper. People can ditch splitting the rent with a starter home purchase and save money monthly.
From California to Florida to Iowa, tiny houses for homeless projects never get developed under the pressure of neighborhood opposition.
Building inspectors for California local governments, and industry practitioners, can get free training on California’s 2016 Energy Efficiency Standards.
For cities that want to support granny apartments to address housing needs -- its tough -- but not impossible to revise local ordinances.
After the Northern California Wildfires, Sonoma County and local officials grapple with wildfire housing strategies.
Through a holistic homeless program, cops “educate, encourage and enforce,” resulting in 11,370 outreach engagements with Sarasota’s homeless.
For four hot U.S. metros, locals seek to live in suburbs where they can access the city -- and still get away from it all.
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