Housing
Community feedback led Phoenix to revise its plan to address homelessness.
During Tuesday’s council meeting, staff presented the revised plan which includes a task force.
Oct. 27, 2020
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This week's number: 9.7%.
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Oct. 23, 2020
The city of Glendale will pay up to six months of rent, up to $2,000 per month, for tenants financially impacted by COVID-19. The application window will be just two weeks long, starting Nov. 1, and the aid will be distributed through a lottery system.
Oct. 20, 2020
The median lot size for a single-family home hit a record low in 2019. The National Association of Homebuilders said the median lot size for a new single-family detached home was 8,177 square feet (0.188 of an acre).
Oct. 16, 2020
The future for nearly 200 homeless and at-risk veterans in Phoenix looks brighter after the City Council directed $10.5 million in federal funds to support the group. Seven years ago, renovations wrapped up at Grand Veterans Village, a former hotel near 35th Avenue and Indian School Road that offers apartments to veterans.
Oct. 13, 2020
The Arizona Supreme Court will not hear a case that challenges Gov. Doug Ducey’s eviction moratorium.
The order, which keeps landlords from evicting tenants who can’t pay their rent because of COVID-19, will remain in effect through at least the end of October, when it is set to expire.
Oct. 8, 2020
Metro Phoenix's multifamily housing market is going strong despite a pandemic, recession, and unusually high rates of unemployment. Angela Gonzales with the Phoenix Business Journal has been covering that hot market. The Show spoke with her more about just how strong it is.
Oct. 6, 2020
Some neighborhood groups in Phoenix are pushing to have a bigger say in the city’s plan to address homelessness. They presented several suggestions Wednesday to members of the city council’s Land Use and Livability Subcommittee.
Sep. 30, 2020
A recent report by researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Utah addresses some of the challenges Sedona and similar cities face when it comes to balancing tourism, jobs and preserving the natural resources that attract visitors.
The Show spoke with Philip Stoker of the University of Arizona about it.
Sep. 22, 2020
Arizona has one of the highest eviction and foreclosure rates in the nation, according to a study by the New America Foundation.
Sep. 14, 2020
Evictions and foreclosures are more than twice as likely to happen here in Maricopa County than the rest of the country — and the problem is only going to get worse as the pandemic plays out. That’s one of the main findings from a new study from New America that looks at housing loss nationwide.
Sep. 11, 2020
During the pandemic, seven hotels across four Valley cities are housing people experiencing homelessness.
Phoenix is using up to $3,488,927 in federal relief funds to cover about 100 hotel rooms for a year.
Sep. 8, 2020
With many Arizonans struggling to pay rent, Gov. Doug Ducey has extended the state’s eviction moratorium through the end of October. But now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its own eviction ban that will last through the end of the year.
Sep. 7, 2020
On Monday, the White House announced a national moratorium on evictions to run through December. The policy would apply to people who have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic and cannot find any alternative housing. State Rep. Jennifer Longdon (D-Phoenix) says it's not enough.
Sep. 2, 2020
With a Section 8 voucher, low-income tenants typically pay 30% of their income toward rent, and the voucher covers the remainder, up to a certain amount. But Arizona has no protections requiring landlords to accept Section 8. That can make it difficult for low-income renters to find homes.
Aug. 28, 2020
Hundreds of renters each week in Maricopa County are still facing eviction since the start of the pandemic and experts say many more evictions could be coming.
Aug. 26, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans are out of work. And we are officially in a recession, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Despite that, the housing market in Phoenix is going strong — so strong that some say it’s thriving. So, how is that possible? And who is it benefiting?
Aug. 25, 2020
Real estate sales in the Phoenix area are breaking records this summer. One real estate professor says this could be laying the foundation for an affordable housing crisis.
Aug. 23, 2020
The governor extended Arizona’s eviction moratorium through October. But after this week, to avoid eviction, tenants will have to show they’ve applied to a rental assistance program through the city, county, state or a nonprofit group.
Aug. 18, 2020
A group of health plans that works with the state’s Medicaid program is aiming to revamp the way Arizona thinks about affordable housing. The Home Matters to Arizona Fund aims to raise more than $100 million over two years. It has already launched with a portion of that money and is looking at the first round of shovel-ready project applications.
Aug. 17, 2020
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