Lehigh County Housing

6 Tips to Increase Your Home’s Value

Before you tackle another home improvement project or stick a “for sale” sign in your yard, check out this list of smart ways to boost your home’s appeal — especially for the growing number of…

5 Tips to Save Money on Your Move

The costs involved with moving add up fast! Not only do you have moving expenses, you likely will be spending money to get your new home set up...

Columbia Cottage Turns 20!

Florence Ribbon Cutting in September of 1997 with Founders Wade White and Peg ThompsonWe are excited and honored to celebrate 20 years of serving Florence and its seniors. Columbia Cottage opened in September of 1997, but the inspiration for a warm, home-like, and charming community for our seniors began long before thatDuring a family vacation to Opryland, seeing a Southern Living’s Cumberland River Cottage…

Guess who is not coming to dinner: The private shame of racial disloyalty

The following is an editorial by Armstrong Williams. When it comes to the most intimate relationships in our lives – who we choose to date, marry and procreate with – racial antagonisms can cut deeply and personally. While most Americans at least on the surface agree that we should judge each other by the content of our character rather than by invidious distinctions such as color, race, religion.

8 Savvy Ways to Solve Your Affordable Housing Problem

Finding affordable housing is a genuine problem in today’s world. The need for a roof over our heads ranks right up there with needing food, water, and clothing. Unfortunately, housing costs are a primary concern... Continue reading

The Answer Is Housing, You Idiots

King County needs 14,000 more units of housing that people experiencing homelessness can afford.

Finding the right home

Big Reason for Housing Affordability Crunch

If your clients are growing more concerned about the increase in home prices, you can point to this problem as a culprit.

Landlords on Vacation? Yes, you can!

Landlords are no different than the rest of us, who dream of going on vacation and taking a break from the day-to-day. But owning and managing rental properties comes with certain responsibilities that can make

Can Regional Governance Solve the Bay’s Housing Crisis? We’re About to Find Out.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission convened a veritable Council of Elrond from the nine-county region to craft a grand bargain to fix our crushing housing crisis. It remains to be seen

Comparing Rental Retirement Communities and Life Plan Communities

There are important differences between rental retirement communities and life plan communities (aka, CCRCs). In this post, we explore how they differ.

The Bakken Workforce and Modular Housing

A blog about all aspects of the modular housing industry.

Affordable housing can and should evoke a sense of 'home'

The new apartment building is Urban Housing Solutions’ second phase of development at the 6-acre site we call “26th and Clarksville.”

Alma Rutgers (opinion): When it comes to housing, past can get in way of future

A historic Greenwich neighborhood collides with hopes for affordable housing.

Why artist housing is just another kind of affordable housing

To support priced-out arts communities, cities look to housing and studio support

Housing trade-offs: Affordability not the only stressor for the middle class

Housing affordability isn’t a crisis for the American middle class. But housing does create stress for many families.

5 Creative Strategies for Increasing Affordable Housing

Increasing affordable housing doesn't have to require millions in publicdollars or fancy new construction.