20
Mar
In essence, as describe here first, in SF you’re applying to apply to be in the lottery and on the waitlist. The lottery you enter is letting you know who gets to apply first. It is a way to determine your place in line to apply for the open units. This is broken down well here, and we are including…
20
Mar
Section 8 Units Nationwide: If you have a Section 8 Voucher, below are housing units nationwide that are availabe. This information can be found within the detailed “Affordable Housing Hub” written by Carol Bianchi, dated February 25, 2024: https://affordablehousinghub.org/open-waiting-lists/section-8-waiting-lists#google_vignette. From the same website at this link: https://affordablehousinghub.org/affordable-housing#google_vignette you can find out how to apply for Section 8. If you are…
09
Nov
The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) is hosting “The State of Housing Design 2023,” on November 17th between 2pm and 6pm EST (11am – 3pm Pacific), online. You may attend in person too, though you’ve got to register. What is it about? What architects plan to do about “…the warming climate, the affordability crisis, increasing regulations and construction…
03
Feb
Welcome back everybody!! It’s Lolita Goldring bringing you Realty Service News, and coming to you all the way from the West Coast!! Yes, We’re in California!! We’ll still be providing you innovative housing updates, plus! Thanks for visiting! The article we’re presenting about, “Gov. Newsome plans to convert EDD headquarters and 2 more downtown Sacramento office buildings into housing,” originally…
07
Mar
WBUR’s Here & Now program is running a Series, “The Fight to Reduce Homelessness” which focuses on areas across the US that are truly making a difference. Among other positive news, right here in our neck of the woods, Bergen County, was named by HUD as the first County in the US to end chronic homelessness; Chicago is treating homelessness…
12
Dec
I’m excited and pleased to present to you a Guest Article, by Hazel Bridges, Founder of AgingWellness.org!”How to Get a Game Plan Together for Long Term Care.” It’s full of great useful information we all could use, no matter your age! Enjoy… How to Get a Game Plan Together for Long-Term Care How do you plan to pay for long-term…
21
Sep
Hmmmm… What’s really making New York City’s Housing morph into what it is and will become? How much innovation needs to happen to provide housing for the many? There are many factors, some larger than others! From October to June of 2019, the Event Series, “Housing Tomorrow’s City”hosted by Museum of the City of New York, in memory of Hilary…
18
Feb
Black Panther!! Blow you away, see with your eyes and your soul!! Keep it in your front mind always!! Epic!! To own and give out…!*!*!…
12
Feb
More of what’s not in the budget… The New York Time’s describes the administration plans to create $1.5 Trillion, out of $200 Billion in infrastructure spending, over the next 10 years. City’s around the nation will need to shell out a sizable, 80% of the costs of new infrastructure development (including plans already underway). Read more in the New York…
05
Feb
Prepare for the future says Forbes in their article, “Trumps 1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Would be Great in the 1950’s.” The plan to prepare for the very emerging transportation technologies about to unfold over the next five to ten years they suggest will take more than slapping on some asphalt. New York and New Jersey are particularly hit with…