MORGANTOWN — Morgantown needs more-affordable housing options. That seems to be a generally accepted statement. And it’s being repeated more and more in recent months as a […]
Tag: affordable housing
The country needs more housing
The United States of America needs more housing — lots of it. The lack of supply in cities and suburbs in particular is the main force driving […]
Aug. 11 letters to the editor
Affordable housing needs govt.’s help The July 28 editorial on affordable housing highlights an urgent national problem and one affecting West Virginia citizens: With a nationwide shortage […]
How do we get more affordable housing?
The affordability of housing remains a hot topic. We feel this problem acutely in Morgantown, but the lack of affordable housing is a national — even global […]
Different ideas about ‘affordable’ housing
Part of the reason Morgantown’s real estate market is so hot is because there’s a lack of available and affordable housing. So we’re not going to object […]
I’ve covered Calif.’s homeless since before the word was used
by Dale Maharidge In 1980, I reported on Sacramento’s “public inebriates.” Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels. But some slept “in […]
Build anything anywhere threatens communities
YIMBY sounds nice. YIMBY stands for “Yes in My Backyard.” It’s a positive-sounding rejoinder to NIMBY, “Not in My Backyard.” The NIMBY label is being used to […]
$12.3M will support safe, affordable housing in W.Va.
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $12,368,832 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for 28 West Virginia […]
PACE Enterprises awarded FHLP-AHP grant
PACE Enterprises was recently awarded $750,000 from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh as part of the Affordable Housing Program. It will help fund the PACE […]
Solving homelessness crisis more about priority than money
If it seems like the homeless population has grown, that’s because it has — everywhere. According to the annual point-in-time survey, there are almost 71,000 more people […]