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Planning begins for new year-round county homeless shelter
April 21, 2025
Tompkins County is seeking an outside organization to run and help design its planned homeless shelter.
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With federal cuts looming, future of Blackfeet homeless shelter in limbo amid funding challenges
April 21, 2025
Funding challenges have crippled the Medicine Bear Lodge homeless shelter on the Blackfeet Reservation. Looming federal cuts could threaten its existence.
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This Georgia Case Could Decide the Future of Gullah Geechee Land on Sapelo Island
April 16, 2025
Residents have been in a fight with county leaders over their voting rights and zoning changes that threaten to lead to displacement.
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‘People would die’: As summer approaches, Trump is jeopardizing funding for AC
April 11, 2025
Some $380 million is now in limbo after Trump laid off staff that run a program helping low-income people pay their energy bills.
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‘Spinning our wheels’: As West Virginia’s housing crisis worsens, lawmakers put solutions on the back burner
April 01, 2025
As rapid growth and tourism drive up housing costs across West Virginia, lawmakers have done little to respond to the escalating crisis — and time has run out for them to take action this session.
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Lease to Locals Hits Housing Milestone
March 21, 2025
Innovative program delivered immediate housing relief to Provincetown – and will continue into a second year.
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Study: Rural Homelessness Is Underestimated and Exacerbated by Opioid Epidemic
February 12, 2025
According to new research, the “Point in Time Count” method used by the federal government to track the unhoused population numbers can be far from accurate when applied in rural areas.
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Athens to build low-income housing on city’s West and Near East sides
January 16, 2025
Under the program terms, each home would have a deed restriction barring sale to anyone who earns more than 80% of the county’s annual median income as determined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Citing high cost, Wausau City Council rejects $350K affordable housing proposal
January 15, 2025
Revenue from the home’s sale would have been reinvested in similar affordable housing projects. This was the fourth attempt by city staff to solicit bids for the infill lot.
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Underserved rural communities targeted in legislative proposal
January 14, 2025
An endowment fund of $50 million endowment could spur redevelopment, housing.
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Columbia Falls students building much-needed housing for Glacier National Park
December 30, 2024
Park officials say the cabins are helping alleviate the shortage of employee housing.
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Wisconsin’s rural homelessness crisis and the fight to do ‘more with less’
December 23, 2024
Homelessness in rural Wisconsin, while often unseen, is increasing. Yet a grueling funding landscape, among other challenges, poses obstacles for local shelters and rural providers.
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Helene exacerbated rise in homelessness across western North Carolina
December 16, 2024
The storm increased awareness of how easily one can become homeless, the region’s growing number of unhoused people and how it’s harder than ever to find a place to live.
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Round Valley Tribes receives $8.7 million grant to develop housing
December 12, 2024
High construction costs and limited access to funding have led to a shortage of affordable housing for people on the reservation.
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County still reliant on motel rooms to shelter homeless this winter
December 10, 2024
The temporary facility is part of a state-mandated program called “Code Blue” that requires counties to provide shelter, no questions asked, on nights when the temperature dips below freezing.
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