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In Vancouver, a new kind of Indigenous community is emerging – one that builds resilience, health, creativity and culture through shared housing and local Indigenous leadership. "People have a hard time seeing themselves as creative…

As the housing crisis has deepened in recent years, the organization has begun to think about ways to not only create more affordable housing options, but also preserve those options in perpetuity. When Townsley joined Habitat 12…

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February 8, 2012An Aurelius woman has donated 127 acres of property near the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge to the Finger Lakes Land Trust, ensuring it will remain undeveloped.Buffalo native Kathryn Whitehorne has lived…

January 28, 2022 San Jose is experiencing a devastating displacement crisis. Low-income communities, primarily people of color, are being torn apart as rents and home values ​​continue to rise, even during the pandemic.More than one and a…

Denver could spend $3.9 million to expand its managed homeless camp program this year, as the city council's…

An ambitious housing development planned for Missoula's Northside neighborhood received a boost in public funding to move forward on Thursday.The Missoula Redevelopment Agency Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the…

Planning commissioners recommend 100 square mile area for industrial agriculture Planning commissioners voted last week to recommend county commissioners set aside about 100 square miles near the border with Beaver County specifically to…

Seniors and other residents of Upper Marlboro, Md., Are fighting a proposal to drastically change zoning in their community. Land use issues have sparked disputes between residents and the county council as more landowners and…

A Moment With ... is an opinion piece in which the Palm Beach Post Editorial Board asks community leaders what they think about issues affecting our community and the state. Suzanne Cabrera, President and CEO of the Housing Leadership…

BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Mortgage rate hikes expected when the Federal Reserve tightens credit in the new year are expected to slow but not block Maine's scorching real estate market.Home prices will continue to rise, but not as fast as this…

Click aqui para Português Recently a number of articles circulated in brazilian media report, with a mixture of wonder and reproach, the to double the scale of the country's favelas over the past 36 years. Amid the…

Hillsborough Commissioners Develop New Affordable Housing Plan Briona Arradondo Reports TAMPA, Florida - Finding affordable housing is such a challenge that Hillsborough County leaders are turning to a creative solution to help…

Affordable housing projects in San Rafael, Novato and Point Reyes Station will receive a total of $ 1.38 million in government grants following action by Marin County supervisors on Tuesday. Half of the money, $ 689,000, comes from a state…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City woman and her employees were permanently banned from operating a charity after a Jackson County judge ruled they scammed thousands of dollars by falsely claiming to build them houses. The Missouri…

By DAVID GREENE Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition and Sistas & Brothas United decorate a fence on city-owned public land on East 175th Street in the Tremont section of the Bronx, and offer their plans for the site's…

According to the proposal, the developers would transform the Larchmont golf course into a new neighborhood with a target of 2,000 new homes, new doctor's offices and business opportunities. They would give the county 157 nearby acres for…

Housing co-ops, largely by the wayside for decades, are getting a second look in San Francisco as the stubbornly high cost of real estate has displaced working-class families, entire communities of color and generations of…

A narrow triangular block in RiNo is expected to be the site of a new 49-unit limited-income condominium complex. Chestnut Place condos are expected to have 14 one-bedroom units, 27 two-bedroom units, and eight three-bedroom units, as well…

The newly proposed land swap, however, would allow residents to stay. Homeowners would transfer property rights to the city in exchange for new homes built on vacant city-owned land that sits in a floodplain that is…

Africatown Community Land Trust (ACLT) recently announced the acquisition of the former Keiro Rehabilitation and Care Center at 16th and Yesler in the Central District. According to ACLT, the acquisition will allow the existing…

The House natural resources committee will vote on a pair of bills to reform offshore oil and gas drilling in response to the recent crude spill off the coast of California. Additionally, offshore bleeding caused by a ruptured pipeline…

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It plans to build homes for households earning between 40% and 60% of the region's median income. That's between $ 28,800 and $ 37,800 for a household of two and $ 36,000 and $ 54,000 for a household of four, depending on annual income…

In June, after nearly three years of preparatory work, Germany established its first community land trust in Berlin - the Stadtboden Stiftung.Once considered one of the most affordable cities in Europe, the explosion in rents puts pressure…

A 9-acre redevelopment project with a significant housing component continues to advance in the Northside neighborhood of Missoula and, as it does, the area's future transportation network is taking shape. Ellen Buchanan, director of the…

Two frequent speakers at regular city council meetings recently made it clear that the Town of Rocky Mount…

Click aqui para Português This is the first of two articles on the Favela Community Land Trust Brazil-wide Seminar. The Favela Community Land Trust National Seminar took place from June 22-24, 2021. Organized by…

Last spring, Amanda Donnell stumbled upon a rare anomaly in the local real estate market: a house for sale under $ 200,000. At $ 185,000, the place was not in great shape and had actually been listed at $ 112,000…

During my final months of undergraduate studies in 2020, I found myself looking for opportunities that…

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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is now seeking a development partner to accelerate Resilient Edgemere, a major initiative to reinvigorate the Edgemere section of the Rockaways. The main objective of the plan…

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