MORGANTOWN – In July 2020, Patrick Bowen of Bowen National Research stood before Morgantown City Council with some alarming news in terms of affordable housing in the city. Based on market research and a months-long needs assessment, Bowen reported that more than 98% of non-student, ...
MORGANTOWN -- “We need to start seeing some results,” Morgantown City Councilor Mark Downs said during council’s recent committee of the whole session. Downs’ comments came in response to a report provided by Rickie Yeager, the city’s director of development services, who updated ...
MORGANTOWN -- The Morgantown Land Reuse & Preservation Agency is under contract on multiple parcels in lower Greenmont situated between Pennsylvania and Decker avenues. But there’s an “if” involved, and the “if” involves money. During the agency’s most recent ...
Christal Crouso, executive director for the Fairmont-Morgantown Housing Authority, recently told The Dominion Post the FMHA would like to take another look at developing the parcels of land it owns in Monongalia County. The FMHA is an organization that exists to help people with housing ...
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 thread intertwined in a wider conversation about how the city can and should address ...
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 up the cost of living for millions, and keeping young people on the outside looking in, their faces pressed against the double-pane glass. Though ...