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However, financially-strapped city homeowners living in their own properties were not being left completely in the cold. Searancke said Habitat in Invercargill had been running a self-funded home repair programme which completed repairs for up to eight financially-struggling homeowners each year. And the organisation would soon be helping more homeowners after this month tapping into a $250,000 fund for just that purpose. Kavinda Herath/Stuff Southland Community Housing Group convenor Margaret Cook says the Healthy Homes regulations are potentially good for renters if their landlords do the work they are supposed to. The BNZ has provided Habitat Invercargill with a $250,000 interest and fees-free line of credit which it will use to help additional homeowners who were struggling financially and needed repair work done. ....
A PREGNANT woman from Blakedown says she s scared for her baby s health whilst living in a disgusting mouldy bungalow. Shannon Gunnell, who is 34-weeks-pregnant, has been living in the home on Sculthorpe Road with her mother Natasha for more than two-years. The family says all the rooms in the home, apart from the hallway, have gradually been taken over by mould. They are now desperate to move out as they fear the mould is affecting their breathing, their mental health, and they are concerned for the unborn baby. They have made a request to their social housing provider The Community Housing Group to be rehoused. ....
Shelter Island has been given the opportunity to look into the mirror. Three mirrors, actually: one is a look into residents’ relationship with the Police Department; one into a comprehensive view of the Island today; and one into how seriously the community wants to make affordable housing a reality. The Police Reform committee officially known as the Shelter Island Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative was set up by state mandate in the wake of America’s long, hot summer of 2020, when police misconduct, including brutality and in some cases murder, brought people into the streets in protest. Here on Shelter Island, students organized a demonstration unlike any in living memory to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement, attracting close to 1,000 people to a march in the Center. ....
Affordable Housing Committee gets development road map (Courtesy photo) Having identified two sites for affordable housing one on the site of the former Highway Department barn on South Ferry Road and the other on Manwaring Road the Community Housing Committee on Feb. 11 got a major shot in the arm from arguably the most knowledgeable housing expert on Long Island, Diana Weir. Ms. Weir, currently Southampton’s Director of Housing and Community Development, has served a long tenure with Long Island Housing Partnership and for 30 years has been involved with housing issues. Responding to an invitation from Shelter Island’s Community Housing Committee Chairman Mike Bebon, she not only spent two hours explaining how municipalities have launched efforts toward providing affordable housing, but promised to assist the committee in an ongoing role, providing guidance and materials to help the town move its program forward. ....
The North Elba Town Hall (Enterprise photo â Griffin Kelly) LAKE PLACID Members of the North Elba Town Council unanimously approved the hiring of Haley Breen as the town’s first-ever community development director on Tuesday evening. The next day, she was on the job. Breen was recommended by the Lake Placid/North Elba Community Development Commission’s ad hoc Development Director Group, consisting of Community Development Commission Chairman Dean Dietrich, town Councilor Emily Politi, Lake Placid village Mayor Craig Randall, village Trustee Art Devlin, Peter Roland and Kate Thompson. “She is a soon to be graduate of Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) with a Master of Public Affairs and a concentration in environmental policy,” Politi wrote in an email Tuesday after the vote. “She starts tomorrow and one of her first tasks will be to write a press release announcing herself.” ....