http://headingforhome.org A Regional Housing Coalition Wed, 07 May 2008 19:59:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Learn how New Hampshire’s changing human ecology is impacting our economic vitality. See the full length film, "Communities & Consequences," The Unbalancing of New Hampshire’s Human Ecology, & What We Can Do About It. Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center Keene State College, Keene, NH 5:30 p.m. – ... http://headingforhome.org/2008/04/29/communities-consequences-film-may-14/ Thursday, January 31, 2008 NORMA LOVE and Sarah Palermo Associated Press and Sentinel Staff CONCORD - Towns are using delaying tactics to prevent developers from building moderate-priced housing for workers, witnesses told a Senate committee this week. And one local housing advocate says the high price of land and overly restrictive planning and zoning ... http://headingforhome.org/2008/02/05/workforce-housing-unwanted-legislator-towns-are-keeping-out-affordable-home-projects/ By DENIS PAISTE New Hampshire Union Leader Staff Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 Manchester – Foreclosures on home loans, led by troubled subprime mortgages, will dog the state for another 24 to 30 months, according to a new report by the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority. An average of 300 new subprime loan foreclosures ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/12/12/subprime-mortgage-meltdown-not-as-bad-in-nh/ A Flagstaff Arizona example of how a promised workforce housing project morphed into a large lot housing development. ------------------- By J. FERGUSON Arizona Sun Staff Reporter Flagstaff, AZ Friday, December 07, 2007 Plans for the massive Villaggio Montana master-planned community that would have provided affordable, workforce housing for Flagstaff have been scrapped. In its place is ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/12/07/highway-cost-kills-villaggio/ By J. FERGUSON Arizona Daily Sun Sunday, October 14, 2007 Vice-Mayor Scott Overton may seem like an unlikely advocate for affordable housing. Since he joined the council last year, the local contractor has repeatedly raised concerns about the creation of a city-run housing land trust, supporting market-driven solutions to the affordable housing crisis. But Overton ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/10/14/green-houses-too-costly/ Saturday, September 29, 2007 Elizabeth Farrell Keene Sentinel Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — A N.H. congressman is working to make the financial services industry more green — not with greenbacks, but with green policy. A House Financial Services Committee task force, headed by Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., and Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., is drafting legislation that ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/09/29/hodes-urges-%e2%80%98green%e2%80%99-policy-law-would-give-incentives-to-banks-other-industries/ Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Freeman Klopott Keene Sentinel Staff Ashuelot River Park in Keene is going to have a new neighbor — 83 condominiums. After more than two years of back and forth between the Keene Planning Board and the developer, the Boston-based Mayo Group, the planning board gave the project a green light ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/09/25/board-oks-83-condos-near-park/ Sunday, September 16, 2007 Sarah Palermo Sentinel Staff WINCHESTER — Though the Boston and Maine Railroad tracks by Franklin Mountain have been silent for some time, the property next door has been generating noise in recent months. Rindge developer Robert Van Dyke has plans for what could be Winchester’s first planned residential development, on ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/09/16/concerns-raised-about-condo-plan/ Saturday, September 15, 2007 David Crary and RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press STAMFORD, Conn. — This isn’t how Simon and Jennifer Morris envisioned married life — sharing a charity-subsidized suite with four other hard-up families, abiding by a curfew and other rules that make them feel they are back in high school. But for a ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/09/16/the-other-housing-crisis-rents-soaring-many-left-out-in-the-cold/ Sunday, September 09, 2007 Keene Sentinel USDA, Rural Development’s Direct Home Loan program is available to income eligible households to purchase an existing home, a site on which construct a dwelling, or a condominium in rural areas. Rural Development will hold a workshop on the program on Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 10 a.m. ... http://headingforhome.org/2007/09/10/workshop-planned-for-home-buyers/