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 […]
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We need to do something: Councilors urge action on affordable housing
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 […]
More green needed for lower Greenmont push
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 […]
FMHA wants to develop affordable housing. County, city should help
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 […]
FMHA hopes to partner in city’s affordable housing efforts
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 […]
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 up the cost […]
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 of roughly 1.5 […]
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 — issue. And […]
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 to the premise […]
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 the weeds.” I […]
