Homes for the Homeless
In September of this year, the New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki chronicled the success of a program in Utah to address chronic homelessness in his column, Home Free? With a…
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The Gifts of the Season
Admit it, even with all the anxiety that surrounds the process, giving and receiving gifts at this time of year can be fun. Receiving something you have been wanting, or…
The “New” American Dream
The MacArthur Foundation’s “Housing Matters” campaign has created a short video, “The New American Dream.” Some of you will recognize it as the old American dream–home ownership–but as the video…
Feeling the Love at Friendship Court
As long as I live in Charlottesville, I will never fail to be moved by the generosity of the people in this area. Year after year, they support the many…
Easing the Rent Burden
A new statistic in the housing field has got the housing blogosphere buzzing: more than half of all renters in the US are rent burdened. This means they are paying…
Look Homeward to Asheville
Asheville, North Carolina was the setting for Thomas Wolfe’s best known novels, Look Homeward, Angel, and You Can’t Go Home Again. It is a beautiful town, often compared with…