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 million homes, the lack of housing units is the primary cause of growing 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 it’s a complex one. For the U.S., the affordable housing shortage traces its roots to the 2008 housing bubble ...
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 of building more housing. However, we do object to the description of the potential Metro Properties development as ...
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 walked the wooded banks of the rivers that converge in the capital and found just a few dozen spots ...
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 stigmatize defenders of zoning laws, with the goal of bulldozing the rules. Needless to say, real estate developers are ...
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 housing authorities. The funding will bolster community-based efforts to address homelessness by helping ...