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By Tyler Mannix Jan, 09 2025
In Mississippi, where there’s already a dearth of 50,000 or more affordable homes for extremely low-income residents, that number could grow in the next five years. Housing units available under the federal Low Income Tax Credit program could lose their affordability by 2030 — a number estimated nationwide to be 350,000 with…
By Tyler Mannix Jan, 09 2025
In the early 1900s, St. Andre’s Church was built brick by brick by French-Canadians to cultivate a community in downtown Biddeford, ME. Over one hundred years later, local businesses, volunteers, nonprofits, and leaders across Biddeford united to restore this community landmark into a center and school for teens and affordable…
By Tyler Mannix Jan, 09 2025
While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units across the U.S. could disappear in the next five years alone. It leaves low-income tenants facing protracted eviction battles, scrambling to pay a two-fold rent increase or more, or shunted back into a housing market where costs can…
By Tyler Mannix Jan, 09 2025
For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf's apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles' Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism.
By Tyler Mannix Dec, 10 2024
Major investments in public housing and reforms to the oversubscribed Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program are needed to preserve this crucial housing stock, say affordable housing experts.