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…
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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….
May the Force be with Affordable Housing, Part II
American Public Radio’s MarketPlace feature on George Lucas’s donation of land and $200 million for affordable housing has, not surprisingly, drawn comments from locals in Marin County where the housing…
The American (bad)Dream
The MacArthur Foundation keeps tabs on housing issues through research, including its annual “How Housing Matters” survey. The results from the 2015 survey are not encouraging, to say the least….
May the Force be With Affordable Housing
Star War’s creator George Lucas has made news for decades, with his successful movies, his Skywalker studio, his Edutopia website and his general reticence to be the focus of news…
Never again
Those of us in the Charlottesville affordable housing sector work in the shadow of a project from the age of “urban renewal.” The destruction of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood haunts…