Michigan City Boasts Lowest Home Price-to-Income Ratio in US
Buying a home isn't the easiest milestone to achieve. Many factors come into play, and not all of them are within the control of the potential buyer. Still, one of the most important factors in selecting a home can easily be one of the most important factors in the feasibility in buying one in the first place: Location, location, location.
Santa Paula complex welcomes farmworkers, low-income residents
A Santa Paula housing complex for farmworkers and low-income residents celebrated its opening Tuesday. The 69-unit People’s Place, at 710 W. Harvard Blvd., serves families and farmworkers earning between 30% to 60% of the area median income. In Ventura County, a one-person household earning $29,550 annually is considered at 30% of the area median...
New housing lottery with homes as low as $454 opens up applications – but you must agree to two requirements
AFFORDABLE housing has opened up for some Americans, with monthly rent prices as low as $454. The units specifically benefit low-income renters, seniors, and the unhoused community. In Brooklyn, New York, a development in Crown Heights has been finished with brand-new apartments designed to be affordable for city residents, per Brownstoner. The eight-story-tall building, Weeksville […]
Cuts to Mass. healthy-food program for low-income residents frustrate families, farmers
WORCESTER ― Once the state implements cuts to the Healthy Incentives Program on Dec. 1, a move administrators deem necessary to ensure the program runs throughout the year, Maria Diaz will not be able to purchase the crunchy red apples her son Brayden loves to eat. “It will be financially hard to buy food for my family of six,” Diaz said. The Worcester resident is a regular at the Beaver Brook Farmers Market on Chandler Street, where...
At low-income senior apartments, Asheville residents banded together to weather Helene
ASHEVILLE - Though downtown rode out the worst of Helene without the catastrophic devastation of other areas of Western North Carolina, it didn't escape the aftershocks. For the Vanderbilt Apartments, low-income senior housing on the north side of the city's central business district, residents were left to grapple with disruptions to daily life. In the immediate aftermath, that meant no water, cell service, cable TV or internet. Bus routes weren't running. ATMs were quickly emptied. Food and...