What the Market Will Bear is Not Affordable
The City of Chicago is taking a new approach to increasing affordable housing. Using vacant land (approximately 1,000 parcels spread throughout the city), the The Chicago Infrastructure Trust, (hatched in…
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Way out West Where $400,000 Buys an “Affordable” Home
Teachers tend to be the poster children for the wage debate in most communities, and in Jackson Hole, WY that remains true, even though young teachers like Jennifer Marlar make…
It all Adds Up to Unaffordable
America is getting less and less affordable for renters out there. The most recent blog from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies indicates that the cost of new rentals…
Watch out world, here she comes!
Ruth Barnett had the longest title of any employee at Piedmont Housing Alliance. That’s because it was almost impossible to list all the things she “took care of” for us. …
Partnership for the Future
When Piedmont Housing Alliance began to plan for a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (“STEM”) Academy for Friendship Court Apartments in 2013, little did we know that we would soon…
Because America has the largest number of homeless women and children in the industrialized world.
A fellow board member on a local non-profit encouraged us to share the “why” of our board service in a compelling way. That idea inspires me to start a series…