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…
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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….
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…