http://headingforhome.org A Regional Housing Coalition Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:37:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amy Pyle Dec 5th 2009 Marianne Cusato was busy designing cottages for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina when requests started pouring in from developers, builders and homeowners across the country begging her to create a similarly compact dwelling for them. "I was very focused on disaster housing and the small-house movement came to ... http://headingforhome.org/2009/12/07/the-home-of-the-future-smaller-simpler-more-affordable/ By Jessica Arriens Sentinel Staff Published: Saturday, November 07, 2009 Picture a middle school dance. Boys on one side of the room, girls on the other, everyone too shy to make the first move onto the gym-turned-dance floor. In a sense, the relationship between young professionals and their elder counterparts can be thought of ... http://headingforhome.org/2009/11/12/affordable-housing-critical-to-future-of-keene/ Heading for Home's 4th annual Business Leaders Breakfast on November 6. Topic: Will the Monadnock Region be ready for economic recovery? Panelists: Neil Giarrantana, President and CTO of Lucidus Internet Solutions, Katie Sutherland, Architect, and Steve Reno, the former Chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire. The panel discussed the economic necessity of ... http://headingforhome.org/2009/10/19/2009-business-leaders-breakfast-invitation/ Heading for Home offers an easy way for our community to support workforce housing in the Monadnock Region. Click here or on the “Donate Now” white text link above to submit your donation. You will receive email confirmation via PayPal that your donation has been accepted. We are utilizing this approach ... http://headingforhome.org/2009/07/13/new-innovative-summer-2009-donor-campaign/ By Jessica Arriens Sentinel Staff Published: Thursday, April 16, 2009 It’s not often that a tax map is so shocking it makes people gasp. But when those maps show that in six years more than half of Keene’s workforce housing — housing stock that employed people in low- and middle-income brackets can afford — ... http://headingforhome.org/2009/04/16/region-sees-housing-decline-study-workforce-stock-is-shrinking/ On April 15, 2009, Heading for Home and the Keene State Department of Geography presented the report, “May the Force be with You: Workforce Housing in the Monadnock Region,” an original study comparing the changes in workforce housing availability in the Monadnock Region in 2001 and 2008. http://headingforhome.org/2009/04/06/may-the-force-be-with-you-workforce-housing-in-the-monadnock-region/ By Jessica Arriens Sentinel Staff Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Susan R. Thielen has heard the myths. When people hear “workforce housing,” they picture derelict trailers, imagine an influx of children and cry out that such a move will cost them more in property tax dollars. It's all part of what Thielen, coordinator of Keene's ... http://headingforhome.org/2009/04/06/homes-key-to-growth-of-jobs-businesses-need-workforce-housing/ By Jessica Arriens Sentinel Staff Published: Monday, February 02, 2009 New Hampshire's workforce housing law, passed this summer, has a grand goal: To fight the state's affordable-housing shortage, and in turn create a productive, thriving workforce that can afford to live where it works. Despite this lofty goal, the law — set to ... http://headingforhome.org/2009/02/03/towns-confused-over-requirements/ The Village at University Heights (Flagstaff, AZ) will have 10 two-bedroom condos priced as low as $149,000 for residents earning no more than $73,750 a year. By J. FERGUSON Arizona Sun Staff Reporter Monday, October 06, 2008 Another local Flagstaff developer has answered the call from the community for more affordable housing options. John Crowley ... http://headingforhome.org/2008/10/06/more-discounted-housing-offered/ Census: Housing costs eat up half of more than 7 million Americans' incomes By ADRIAN SAINZ The Associated Press MIAMI Al Ray is so strapped for cash, the only time he eats out is on Wednesday or Sunday, when the local McDonald's sells hamburgers for 49 cents. Ray lost his engineering job last November, and ... http://headingforhome.org/2008/09/24/millions-spend-half-of-income-on-housing/