The Connecticut Housing Coalition, the state’s leading membership organization for affordable housing, is seeking an Executive Director. [More ...]
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Job Announcement: Connecticut Housing Coalition Executive Director
Tags: Affordable Housing, Connecticut Housing Coalition, job announcement
Affordable Housing for Families and Neighborhoods: The Value of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits in New York City
Source: Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. and Local Initiatives Support
Corporation, Inc., 2010
From the report’s executive summary:
“Since the late 1980s, the Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) has acted as an engine of affordable housing production, building about 2 million high-quality units that rent for amounts working families can afford to pay. Organizations working to improve conditions in low-income communities have also used the program to revitalize hundreds of once-downtrodden neighborhoods. Drawing on the program’s experience in New York City, this report joins a growing body of technical research examining the tax credit’s value to communities and low-income families nationwide.”
Tags: Affordable Housing, LIHTC
New Report: Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth
Source: New England Public Policy Center
Abstract
High housing prices have caused concerns among policy makers as well as the public in many U.S. regions. There is a general belief that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there has been little empirical evidence that supports this view. In this paper, we clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing could negatively affect employment growth. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Jobn Growth, Report, Research
Advocates Concerned over Federal Housing Policy Shift
Source: New Hampshire Public Radio, June 8
By Dan Gorenstein
“Federal officials are designing new affordable housing programs.
They’ve signaled an interest in helping communities with high numbers of mortgage foreclosures and neighborhoods with access to mass transit.
But housing advocates worry rural states like New Hampshire will be overlooked. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, HUD, New Hampshire, NHPR, Sustainable Communities
Proctor building reopens after blaze
Source: Rutland Herald, May 17, 2010
By Brent Curtis
“PROCTOR – A historic building at the crossroads of the town’s center has recovered from a blaze that closed it last August.
And while the lightning ignited fire caused upheaval for displaced tenants and businesses alike, funds from the repairs have ensured that Proctor Place will remain a source of affordable housing for the next two decades. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Proctor, seniors
Will Burlington’s Affordable Housing Sell to the Highest Bidder?
Source: Seven Days Vermont, May 12, 2010
By Shay Totten [05.12.10]
“Dozens of Burlington’s poorest renters could get the boot from subsidized housing if their landlord — Pizzagalli Properties [1] — sells a 37-unit apartment building to Champlain College [2] to house students.
Wharf Lane apartments [3], on lower Maple Street, is home to 44 people with annual incomes in the $12,000 range. Many are elderly or people with disabilities. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Wharf Lane
Analysis Shows Housing More Affordable in Vermont
VHFA’s Maura Collins and VAHC’s Erhard Mahnke offer counterpoints to Art Woolf’s analysis released yesterday in his Vermont Economy Newsletter. [More ...]
Tags: Affordability, Affordable Housing, Art Woolf, Erhard Mahnke, Maura Collins
Governor Douglas announces $630,000 in grants for five Vermont communities
“Governor Jim Douglas today awarded more than $630,000 in Community Development Block Grants to South Burlington, Montpelier, Vergennes, Georgia and Bristol. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Bristol, CDBG, Georgia, Governor, Montpelier, Senior Housing, South Burlington, Vergennes
Affordable housing units fill up fast in Colchester
By Matt Sutkoski
“COLCHESTER — The 42 units of Brookside Village are almost fully leased even as the developers of the affordable housing complex on Monday celebrated the just-completed construction. [More ...]
Tags: Affordable Housing, Brookside Village, Champlain Housing Trust, Colchester, Housing Vermont, rental property
