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…
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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. …
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…
Thoughtful Co-existence
In a recent story in the New York Times, writer C.J. Hughes surveys a new phenomenon in New York City–building luxury apartments cheek-by-jowl with public housing complexes. In a city…
SCOTUS Upholds Fair Housing Protections
In the flurry of historic and high profile decisions from the US Supreme Court in June came a decision under the Fair Housing Act that will affect affordable housing developers…