• Affordable Housing Project Approved In Charlotte

    Charlotte is moving forward with a plan to build more affordable homes. The homes will be built all around the city including 100 apartment units in northeast Charlotte on Mallard Creek Road.

  • Refugees Would Get Millions for Housing Under New Bill

    Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday that his chamber will finally hold a vote this weekend on passing additional foreign aid including support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as $481 million to assist refugees in the U.S.But after releasing text of the funding measures—which are split into three separate bills—Johnson is once against facing pushback from members of his own party, who have withheld authorizing supplemental funding for months.Drafts of the legislation...

  • New Mexico gets $156 million for solar projects

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving New Mexico $156,120,000 to fund solar projects. The goal is to bring solar energy to low-income families through the "Solar for All" initiative. “With the fires, drought and heat that New Mexico is experiencing because of the global climate crisis, there is real hope in []

  • Social Security benefits update: Millions of seniors could now get more money

    Recently, Social Security announced an increase in Social Security benefits, which could provide millions of seniors with more money to cover their daily

  • Sarnia affordable housing project may proceed without provincial cash

    Ontario nixed a requested $5-million contribution, but Lambton County’s Housing Services wants to move ahead with building as many as 50 new units of affordable housing on county-owned parkland on Kathleen Avenue in Sarnia.

    • WNYC

    A hotel row in Queens is getting a new look. New affordable housing is part of the mix.

    On a recent afternoon, sneakered tourists streamed out of the various hotels located along a quiet stretch of Jamaica, Queens. The Radisson, a Hampton Inn, a Residence Inn by Marriott, and erstwhile JFK Hilton, just a stone's throw from JFK Airport, represent the future of affordable housing in the city, as well as what is perhaps a missed opportunity. Months of interior demolition work is concluding at the 350-room Hilton property on 135th Avenue, just east of the Van Wyck Expressway. A...

  • A hotel row in Queens is getting a new look. New affordable housing is part of the mix.

    Rendering of the interior garden planned for the former JFK Hilton, near the airport in Queens. It's being converted into affordable housing. The former JFK Hilton is being transformed into affordable housing; project admirers wish there were more projects like it. [ more › ]

    • CHCH

    Stoney Creek parking lot set to become affordable housing after Horwath uses strong mayor powers

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Two Stoney Creek parking lots are now set to become affordable housing, after Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwarth used her so-called strong mayor powers for the first time Wednesday, tipping the previously-stalemated vote in favour. Council had previously voted on this matter twice — both times, a heated debate led to an 8-to-8 tie, failing the […]

  • Raleigh Nonprofit Raises $8.3 Million for City’s First Cottage Court to Expand Affordable Housing

    The Raleigh Area Land Trust raise $8.3 million for a new cottage court affordable housing development in the Idlewild neighborhood.

  • Housing crisis to 'get worse before it gets better'

    Australia’s housing crisis is expected to get worse before it gets better and the federal government is facing growing pressure to do more to fix it in the May budget. Deloitte Access Economics partner Stephen Smith said the nation had not been building enough homes to keep pace with population growth, and new dwelling starts […]

  • White House Rejects Long-shot House Republican Effort To Get President Joe Biden To Testify

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday rejected a long-shot effort from House Republicans to get President Joe Biden to testify before lawmakers in the GOP’s stalled impeachment inquiry. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the White House dismissed the invitation sent to Biden last month, calling it a “partisan […]

    • KTVZ

    White House rejects long-shot House Republican effort to get President Joe Biden to testify

    By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is rejecting a long-shot effort from House Republicans to get President Joe Biden to testify before lawmakers in the GOP’s stalled impeachment inquiry. In a letter Monday to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the White House dismissed the invitation sent to Biden last