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Are Affordable Rentals A Thing of the Past?
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/affordable-rentals-thing-past/…of their income for housing. And the figures get worse–more than one quarter (27%) of renters are paying more than 50% of their income for housing. All those percentages translate…
Energy Efficiency Translates to Big Savings
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/energy-efficiency-translates-big-savings/Last year, Piedmont Housing won an a Sustainable Leadership award from EarthCraft Virginia for its retrofit of the Scottsville School. A recent study by Virginia Tech in collaboration with Housing…
Access to High Performing Schools Aids Low-Income Children
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/access-high-performing-schools-aids-low-income-children/Lack of housing security ca n mean that families move and change schools, and this can create educational stress. But a recent study focused on greater housing mobility indicates that…
Let Auld Acquaintances be Remembered
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/let-auld-acquaintances-remembered/…Helen Flamini, Elizabeth Golden, John Gaines, Jimmy Hollins, Darla Rose, Deborah Anama, Ginny Barefoot, and Bill Tucker for their stewardship of Piedmont Housing over many years. We have recently brought…
Focus on Friendship Court
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/focus-friendship-court/February Board meeting at Friendship Court Community Center Last week was an exciting one in the history of Piedmont Housing Alliance, as our Board of Directors held its first-ever meeting…
Cities and Suburbs Ain't What they Used to Be
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/urbansuburban-model-shifting/Charlottesville is not the only city where in-town housing is in great demand. According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center, the prosperous suburban “donut” around a decaying urban core no longer…
Board Profile: Frank Stoner
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/our-team/meet-the-board-frank-stoner-2/Frank Stoner Last year, Piedmont Housing was approached by a local developer who wanted to talk with us about how to incorporate housing that is affordable into one of his…
Out and About
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/out-and-about/From left: Frank Grosch, Marta Keene, Steve Nichols, County Administrator of Fluvanna County, and LJ Lopez of Milestone Partners. In his first fifteen months at the helm of Piedmont Housing…
Great Ideas to Make Housing a Home
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/great-ideas-to-make-housing-into-a-home/…test in the real world as part of the HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition. Students from University of Minnesota, UCLA, University of Kansas and NYU…
Giving Youngsters a Good Start
https://piedmonthousingalliance.org/news/blog/giving-youngsters-a-good-start/Those of us who work at Piedmont Housing don’t need to read a bunch of studies to convince us that a stable, affordable home is at the core of what…