Carroll County, a rural county on the outer edge of the Baltimore metro area, has faced increasing development pressure, yet has a strong desire to maintain its rural character and agricultural economy. In preparation for an upcoming Comprehensive Plan process, the County and its eight municipalities sought a housing study to generate and feed housing-specific […]
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Orange County, home of Orlando and an array of smaller cooperating cities, anchors the rapidly growing Central Florida region. The County’s Housing and Community Development Division was overwhelmed with an influx of federal and state pandemic relief funding, the creation of a new locally-funded affordable housing trust fund, and then a tranche of CDBG-DR funding
Included in the American Rescue Plan, a pandemic relief bill passed in 2021, was a $5 billion appropriation to address homelessness assistance and supportive service needs. This allocation of ARP funds, known as HOME-ARP, was allocated to cities, counties, and states for eligible activities that would primarily benefit individuals and families who are homeless, at
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In 2021-2022, Mosaic Community Planning collaborated with the City of Westerville to complete a study of the City’s housing stock with a focus on assessing current and future attainability of housing in the city. Unique to this project was the drafting of a community-informed definition for “attainable housing”. Not wanting to strictly adhere to HUD’s
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Housing and service providers, the faith-based community, the Fulton County Continuum of Care, and local governments provide a range of housing and services to address the unique needs of people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness in North Fulton County, including homelessness prevention, emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and a wide range of homelessness
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When the City of Camas updated its Comprehensive Plan in 2016, one of the community’s priorities was to ensure that, despite Camas’s rapid growth and relatively high housing prices, there would remain “a wide variety and range of housing for all ages and income levels.” To further study the City’s housing needs and develop an
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In 2011, the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation was awarded a Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant to develop a regional sustainability plan. Awardees under this joint HUD-EPA program were required to produce a Fair Housing and Equity Assessment, a set of study requirements overlapping to a large degree those of an Analysis of Impediments. Because
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The Central Oregon study area comprises three counties and includes eight incorporated cities and a tribal community. While many parts of Central Oregon remain rural, the cities of Bend and Redmond are fast-growing urban centers whose population growth exerts pressure on housing markets throughout the region. A key challenge of the Regional Housing Needs Assessment
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