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News Round-Up: Housing Disasters, Natural and Man-Made
In this week’s News Round-Up, we find news stories showing that both natural disasters, and the disastrous economy, have combined with the nationwide shortage of rental housing affordable to low income people to create a crisis for many American families. In Vermont, manufactured home park residents whose homes were flooded during Hurricane Irene had no Continue reading
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News Round-Up: What the Numbers Show
Data from the National Low Income Housing Coalition helped a New Jersey organization show that two-income households struggling to stay stable is the new norm even in affluent communities. A survey of low income North New Jersey households found that housing was among the greatest needs of those families. Not surprisingly, full-time, minimum wage work Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Something Has to Give
In this week’s News Round-Up, we find that one thing remains true for American cities large and small: there is not enough housing affordable to lower income people. According to HUD, the Washington, D.C. has the second highest rents in the country, which matches with the Coalition finding that the D.C. metropolitan region has the Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Past, Present, Future
This week’s news round-up shows the impact of present-day policy on the future of housing, and of our country. Illinois Public Media tells the story of the Danville, Illinois public housing stock. Under scrutiny by HUD for its fair housing practices, the city is attempting to move forward with a plan to demolish a significant Continue reading
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News Round-Up: A Housing Problem and an Income Problem
In her testimony at a hearing of the housing subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee, Coalition President Sheila Crowley noted that “Observers often ask if the shortage of rental housing for the low and extremely low income population is a housing problem or an income problem. The answer is that it is both.” Two Continue reading
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