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Is Housing Health Care? Take 2.

The homelessness advocacy community has been generating a lot of really interesting data lately.  Not unexpectedly, much of it goes to support the conclusion that permanent housing is the solution…

Housing for those Caught in the Middle

According to this article in governing.com  the City of Brotherly Love is responding to the affordable housing shortage by leveraging city owned vacant land.  Philadelphia is trading the value in…

It’s an Unequal Day in the Neighborhood

In a recent blog by Rolf Pendall, Director of Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr. Pendall shares the findings of a 2010 study of wealth…

Renting is the New Buying?

Not really. It’s just that,  according to the Washington Post’s WonkBlog, renting is taking over in some of the demographic groupings that traditionally have been firmly in the homeowner camp. …

Reach out and Touch A Community

Piedmont Housing is excited to be part of a new partnership with the City of Charlottesville and AHIP to provide opportunities for home ownership and home repairs in Charlottesville. The…

Home is at the Center of it All

In a recent posting on the ShelterForce blog, Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford shares some recent information about the transformative power that stable housing has on lives and communities….