Older adults would be some of the beneficiaries of the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), according to the president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
An affordable senior housing community that consists of 45 yurt-like units held a ribbon-cutting last month in Ohio. There’s already a waiting list.
A former school building in Boston will be converted to 74 income-restricted rental units for LGBTQ adults aged 62 or more years, along with gallery space, an arts studio, community gardens and recreational space.
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its “Housing America’s Older Adults 2019” report on Wednesday. Here are five takeaways from the report, plus commentary from LeadingAge.
Some of the nation’s largest providers of affordable senior housing, as well as associations representing aging services providers, were among the 600 organizations sending a letter to the moderators of the next presidential debate, urging them to ask the candidates how they would address the affordable housing shortage in the United States.
The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) would be privatized under a 53-page plan released Thursday by the Treasury Department to reform the housing finance system.
Approximately 120,000 units across 2,800 affordable senior housing properties now will be eligible to participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Rental Assistance Demonstration through an expansion of the program, HUD announced Thursday.
A reform of the government’s senior housing portfolio that would allow private investment is underway, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
A new report on housing in the United States shows a disconnect between the needs of the population and the housing market that is supposed to serve them, according to one housing policy expert.
A developer, builder and manager of affordable senior housing and other apartment complexes did not comply with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act when designing and constructing the properties, according to the Department of Justice.
