http://www.headingforhome.org A Regional Housing Coalition Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:05:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The recent groundbreaking for the first phase of the Izabel Homes project signals a new milestone for the city-run community land trust. In a partnership with local builder Loven Contracting, Flagstaff officials expect to have a total of 16 homes added to the land trust by 2015, offering one of the ... http://www.headingforhome.org/2010/06/28/more-flagstaff-az-townhouses-for-160k/ California residents resort to mini-apartments to live in hot areas By Roger Vincent McClatchy News Service Published: Sunday, June 06, 2010 LOS ANGELES — Timm Freeman’s Santa Monica apartment has 17-foot ceilings, granite countertops and collector guitars hanging on the wall. He’s got a built-in microwave, dishwasher and central air ... http://www.headingforhome.org/2010/06/06/247/ There’s no place like home Communities work to meet workforce housing standards By Casey Farrar Sentinel Staff Published: Monday, May 17, 2010 It started with a Hanover church group looking for affordable housing for a refugee family from the Middle East. Now, by the time an affordable housing development in Hanover is ... http://www.headingforhome.org/2010/05/17/242/ Please join us for New Hampshire's first Housing Commission Workshop, Thursday, May 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Room 101 Putnam Science Center, Keene State College, Keene. Partners: Heading for Home, Southwest Region Planning Commission, New Hampshire Housing Panelists: From the Hanover Affordable Housing Commission, Len Cadwallader, Executive Director, Vital Communities, ... http://www.headingforhome.org/2010/05/05/235/ 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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.headingforhome.org/2009/04/06/may-the-force-be-with-you-workforce-housing-in-the-monadnock-region/