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News Articles: affordable housing

Dueling signs dot Virginia's Arlington County as residents debate the zoning reform proposal. This photo first appeared in DCist. Click <a href="https://wamu.org/story/23/01/20/arlington-missing-middle-housing/">here</a> to read that story.

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The U.S. needs more affordable housing – where to put it is a bigger battle

American suburbs mandated single-family homes generations ago, often to segregate areas by race and class. New laws allow more-affordable options like townhomes but construction so far has been slow.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Margaret Barthel and
  • Jennifer Ludden
Stock photo eviction notice

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Journalists behind 'Dangerous Dwellings' articles explain Atlanta's housing crisis

Thursday on Political Rewind: On a special edition of the show, host Bill Nigut welcomes investigative journalists Alan Judd and Willoughby Mariano to the show to discuss their series "Dangerous Dwellings," an investigation into rundown apartment complexes and their effects on residents.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Sentiment Among U.S. Home Builders is at its Highest Level Since 2005

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  • News

Affordable housing challenge puts local control issue in the spotlight

As high-tech manufacturing plants are lured to Georgia, affordable housing for workers is emerging as a key challenge.

January 30, 2023
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
David Hernandez, 62, crawls into his bed made with cardboard boxes in Los Angeles last week. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency to grapple with the city's homeless crisis.

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  • National

'It is the obvious thing.' The White House tries a new tack to combat homelessness

The Biden administration says to end the homelessness crisis, more must be done to keep people from losing housing in the first place. But identifying and reaching those most at risk is a challenge.

December 19, 2022
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
New Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks during her inaugural address, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022.

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  • National

The Los Angeles mayor says the city will move unhoused people indoors

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the city will start moving unhoused people to hotels and motels. Meanwhile, she signed an executive order to hasten the process of building affordable housing.

December 19, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Randy Bedingfield plays the piano in a corner of the Daybreak Day Center during a reception celebrating the tenth anniversary of the facility which offers an array of services to the unhoused. Bedingfield, a regular, says he found the center after his parents died. "It hit during a particularly difficult time for me," he said.

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  • Economy

Macon's Daybreak Center celebrates a decade of serving the homeless and looks forward to new work

Over the past decade, the Daybreak Center has provided a place for the unhoused in Macon to do simple things: laundry, bathe, access medical care or even just receive mail. Supporters decided the milestone was worth a party to mark the center’s 10 years of service to the community. 

November 15, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Even though higher mortgage rates are starting to curb housing prices, the share of first-time homebuyers has fallen to a historic low, according to the National Association of Realtors.

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  • National

Voters approved more money for affordable housing around the country

Skyrocketing rents and home prices have been a major part of voters' economic pain. New spending will go toward building and subsidizing more housing, and helping people avoid homelessness.

November 10, 2022
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  • Jennifer Ludden
This is one of 194 homes The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority bought this year. The purchase is a first for the agency, which wanted to prevent investors from buying the homes and possibly increasing rent or evicting tenants.

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  • National

It's harder to buy a house. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords

A Cincinnati agency says large investors are taking some of the most affordable homes off the market, exacerbating the racial wealth gap. It's now helping its new tenants buy the homes themselves.

November 03, 2022
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  • Jennifer Ludden
Mike Johansen stands by the door of the camping trailer where the couple is living while they wait for construction on their new home to be finished.

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  • Economy

With mortgage rates near 7%, the housing party is over. Now it's hangover time

The highest rates in 20 years are dashing the dreams of some would-be homebuyers. Others stretch to buy but spend close to $1,000 a month more in monthly payments for a typical house.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
A commercial building sits empty Sept. 19 in Citrus Heights, Calif., northeast of Sacramento. Two new laws in California will let developers bypass local governments to build housing on commercial land.

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  • Business

Vacant stores will become homes more easily under new California laws

Local government officials say the laws undermine their authority and cut their tax base, but it's a long-sought win for affordable housing advocates, who say such sites are ready-made for apartments.

September 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Mike Noel at the Heritage Plantation community, June 8, 2022. Noel retired and bought a home in the mobile home park and looked forward to fishing in the ocean 20 minutes away.  "I thought I was moving to paradise," he says.

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From floods to slime: Mobile home residents say landlords make millions, neglect them

Elderly homeowners in Florida are suing the billion dollar company that owns their mobile home park. Big companies are buying up parks around the country, but critics say residents pay the price.

August 21, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Robert Benincasa

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  • National

Poll: Black, Native American and Latino families face serious problems from inflation

Those households are struggling to stay afloat, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

August 08, 2022
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By:
  • Will Stone
Stacey Abrams

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  • Politics

Stacey Abrams plans for more affordable housing in Georgia

Democrat Stacey Abrams is promoting a plan she says will make housing more available and affordable across Georgia if she defeats Republican Gov. Brian Kemp this year.

July 27, 2022
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  • Associated Press
A wall mural is painted with the words 'welcome to edgewood' as you walk into the neighborhood.

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  • Economy

Longtime Atlanta residents face mounting bills waiting for affordable housing solutions

People continue to move back into the city of Atlanta every year. Now skyrocketing property values pose a challenge for older residents. It’s an easy problem to see in Atlanta’s Edgewood neighborhood.

 

May 12, 2022
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
artist’s rendering from a development project called Elliott’s Walk in Columbus, Ga.

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  • News

South Columbus will get new affordable housing development, thanks to $10M tax grant

A nonprofit headed by a Muscogee County School Board member will receive just over $10 million in tax dollars to help build an affordable housing community in south Columbus after months of debate.

April 29, 2022
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  • Nick Wooten
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