HOUSING
A Richmond City Council committee advanced a measure Thursday that could create a $10.1 million pool of loan funding to aid economic development, create affordable housing and alleviate blight, among other projects…. timesdispatch.com
A Richmond City Council committee advanced a measure Thursday that could create a $10.1 million pool of loan funding to aid economic development, create affordable housing and alleviate blight, among other projects….The committee also continued a perennially delayed proposed ordinance that would give the council more authority over city contracts and change orders…. timesdispatch.com
The City of Richmond has 2,200 vacant buildings, the majority of which are single-family houses. Some are well-maintained and secured by their owners, but a substantial number of these vacant houses — by some estimates as many as 800 — are blighted: chronically vacant, with repeated code violations… timesdispatch.com
A coalition of Richmond-area congregations made a formidable show of strength Thursday night in a campaign to pressure the City Council into following through on a public trust fund to create more affordable housing….Council Vice President Ellen F. Robertson, who represents the 6th District, introduced an ordinance Monday that sets up provisions for the trust fund and its board. It is scheduled for a public hearing April 23…. timesdispatch.com
Homelessness in the Richmond area has fallen 10 percent since January 2009, according to a report released Thursday by a regional tracking agency…. timesdispatch.com
….The housing authority said this week that it plans to sell the units, half of which are occupied, as is, rather than renovate them before putting them on the market, as the authority began doing five years ago…. timesdispatch.com
A model that’s succeeded in transforming public housing in Atlanta and elsewhere could work in Richmond, according to a presentation given today to members of the Greater Richmond Chamber. … timesdispatch.com