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LAWRENCE With real estate prices soaring across the United States and a wave of evictions soon possible due to the end of pandemic protections, a University of Kansas housing expert says three key changes are needed to housing policy to ensure housing remains affordable and available to low-income Americans.
Kirk McClure, professor emeritus of public affairs & administration at KU, was invited by the journal Housing Policy Debate to provide recommendations to the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. McClure, who is available to discuss the recommendations, policy and housing with the media, offered three key suggestions:
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The former governor of Missouri Eric Greitens is running for the U.S. Senate. Perhaps most importantly for
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Originally published on April 5, 2021 4:00 pm
The Housing Authority of Champaign County s newest affordable housing complex is 115 miles away from the next-nearest property it manages. Here s why the agency is setting up camp in Marshall County.
The new 30-unit Oak Field Place apartment complex offers affordable housing for seniors in Henry, a river town about an hour due north of Peoria.
So how did Champaign County s housing authority get involved in all this? That s a good question. We actually get asked that quite a bit, said Temeka Couch, the interim deputy director of the Housing Authority of Champaign County (HACC). The Housing Authority of Champaign County is a Moving to Work agency. So it allows us to think up innovative ways to create housing opportunities.
Sevier County Housing Summit
On Mar. 11 elected officials from city and town governments in Sevier County, along with mortgage lenders, commercial real estate developers, residential developers, planning commissions, and planners presented their perspective on the current housing conditions in the county.
A lack of affordable housing, along with a lack of housing overall, were two of the topics discussed along with being more prepared for commercial businesses. One individual compared the current housing market to the toilet paper frenzy of 2020, with the high demand leading to high prices.
From Nov. of 2019 to Nov. of 2020 the average sales price of homes in the county jumped from $155,072 to $283,643, an increase of 82.9%. This price rise was attributed to less homes being for sale as more and more people have been moving away from cities to come to smaller communities causing a 61% decrease in the number of homes for sale.
Tampa-based Southport Financial Services expects to buy the unused parking structure at the edge of Springfield at the end of May for site redevelopment into Parkview Commons.
Southport Financial Senior Vice President Michael Molinari said March 11 that construction of the 122-unit affordable rental community should start by the end of 2021 for completion in a year.
The almost 1.5-acre site is at 901 N. Main St., bordered by Main, State, Ocean and Orange streets, in the Springfield area north of Downtown Jacksonville.
He said Southport will “bring much needed affordable housing to the historically underserved Springfield neighborhood.”
Molinari said the almost $30 million development will have ground-floor parking topped by a four-story building that will have a leasing center, library, gym, community space and more amenities.