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
Anything is Still Possible – Take a Look at this Series Focusing on Reducing Homelessness Across the U.S.
07 MarWBUR’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…
19
Sep
Big Apple Melting Pot – Lottery Updates – Let’s Do This
19 SepHere’s a summary of some of the latest affordable housing updates all gathered from the Curbed NY /Affordable Housing section. If you or someone you know can benefit from this information, please pass it along. Deadlines for lottery applications range from September 27th, to October 2nd to October 31st. Crown Heights 33 Units – September 27th Deadline: Crown Heights has 33…
18
Sep
Can We Have an Affordable Housing Cake Where the People that Need it Most Get to Eat it Too?
18 SepWell, we can plan for it… According to the Real Deal Jonathan Rose and Company in partnership with 125 investors including Ford, Deutsche Bank AG’s Community Development Finance Group, an asset management arm of TIAA, Nueveen, private individuals, family offices, pension funds, banks and nonprofit foundations, have raised $233 million for a fund dedicated to Affordable Housing. A surge in…
07
Jul
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Study 2017 is Out!
07 Jul“The State of the Nation’s Housing 2017 report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies” is out and as far as Affordable Housing, we’re in trouble. The good news is there are solutions, namely incentivize, incentivize, incentivize. Chris Herbert, Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Mayor Catherine E. Pugh, City of Baltimore, Maryland, Terri Ludwig, President & CEO of…
02
Jul
A Home is Not Essential to Move Forward. Really?
02 JulProposed Cuts to Housing First Some Legislators have a notion that housing is an impediment to sobriety. This was the thinking some 30+ years ago. Had we continued in that vain, many a peoples lives would be very different today. Time to get success stories together. Keep reading…