Inside the White House with Liz Landers
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... fill.Lisa Desjardins: Now, part of the concern here that runs through a lot of these nonprofits has to deal with the economy. There are housing concerns, a lot of problems with affordable housing that runs through these communities. They don't have good childcare, so some of these nonprofits ...
... McConville said in a statement. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner in March proposed using “underutilized” federal land for affordable housing. Turner said some 7 million homes are needed. Officials under Biden also sought to use public lands for affordable housing, although on a ...
It was the moment where we understood we are implicated in each other's stories, right? Jeffrey Brown: And so the arts-centered, community-driven, affordable housing project Second Story Collective was born, first matching students as renters in local residents' homes to help with high housing costs, then raising ...
... have this immense concern about the impacts on the people we serve, from the programs I worked on and that my colleagues worked on, from affordable housing development to disaster recovery," she said.‘We made a difference’ Juliane Alfen, 25, left her workplace at the U.S. Agency for International ...
... hard-fought progress is now in peril as the wildfires displaced tens of thousands of Los Angeles residents and destroyed more than 16,000 structures. Affordable housing, already in short supply, is being further strained. Formerly homeless people who have experienced addiction, domestic violence, or mental illness now worry they ...
... Northeast, where rents are already high, will see prices increase. Vince Wang, a research fellow at Grounded Solutions Network, said people already struggling to find affordable housing will be most affected. “Across the income spectrum, the affordability crisis will get worse,” Wang said, adding that lower-income households and people ...
... Hurricane María slammed into the island in September 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm, razing the electrical grid. She also faces pressure to create affordable housing, lower power bills and the general cost of living, reduce violent crime, boost Puerto Rico’s economy, with the island locked out of ...
... done in January 2024, showed an 18 percent rise in the number of people experiencing homelessness from 2023. Experts agree the country’s lack of affordable housing is at least partly to blame for the burgeoning homelessness crisis. Some state legislatures passed housing reform last year, he said. That includes ...
... of the count. “Increased homelessness is the tragic, yet predictable, consequence of underinvesting in the resources and protections that help people find and maintain safe, affordable housing,” Renee Willis, incoming interim CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, in a statement. “As advocates, researchers, and people with lived experience ...
... is, our housing crisis has reached such a scale of proportion that we're seeing more and more bipartisanship around the need to solve our housing crisis, to build more affordable housing, to build more different kinds of housing from homeownership to rental and everything in between. And so that ...
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