Housing
More than 250 volunteers from 41 utilities across 16 states are expected to travel between now and July to the largest reservation in the U.S. to donate their time and talents during the fourth annual Light Up Navajo mutual aid project.
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Apr. 19, 2024
New data from the bill-pay service, doxo shows Arizonans are spending an average of $2,184 a month on the most common household bills.
Apr. 19, 2024
The program is called Lighthouse, and it’s run by the Pima County Industrial Development Authority. It’s the latest project of an initiative launched in 2012 to address housing affordability in southern Arizona.
Apr. 17, 2024
Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the launch of the Arizona is Home program using $10 million from the state’s Housing Trust Fund and $3 million in federal COVID-19 relief. Hobbs said that is enough to help up to 500 families.
Apr. 12, 2024
In December, Gila County supervisors voted to regulate short-term rentals like Airbnb. But Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff) asked the attorney general to investigate whether the county’s new ordinance is legal.
Apr. 11, 2024
A bill introduced in the U.S. House this week would set aside an additional $2 billion to address affordable housing in Phoenix and other fast-growing metro areas around the country.
Apr. 10, 2024
State lawmakers are one step away from passing legislation to make it easier for property owners to remove squatters.
Apr. 9, 2024
Phoenix’s deputy city manager, Gina Montes, defended the trip and talked more about field trips to various cities around the country as part of “homelessness summit” on The Show.
Apr. 9, 2024
As Arizona lawmakers and Gov. Katie Hobbs struggle to come to agreement on measures to try to increase the supply of housing in the state, one of our neighbors is taking a unique approach to solving its housing problems.
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Apr. 8, 2024
Thousands of basketball fans have descended on Glendale for the men’s Final Four, providing the latest opportunity for residents to operate their homes as short-term rentals. Last year, the city passed a new rule requiring permits for these rentals. That won’t be an enforcement priority this weekend.
Apr. 5, 2024
The full council must still vote on the proposal, which would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishable by fines up to $2,500, six months in jail or up to three years probation.
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Apr. 4, 2024
Senate Bill 1162, which passed the House with unanimous bipartisan support, would require cities and towns to determine whether zoning applications are filled out correctly within 30 days. Municipalities would then have 180 days to approve or deny those applications.
Apr. 4, 2024
The Flagstaff City Council has approved more than $3 million to help build 139 affordable rental units downtown.
Apr. 3, 2024
A group of tech billionaires is hoping to get residents in Northern California to approve what backers hope amounts to a new city. The project is called California Forever, and it aims to turn farmland into a medium density city that could grow to up to 400,000 residents.
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Apr. 3, 2024
Phoenix will soon learn whether it can build a new shelter in time to house people before extreme heat kicks in.
Apr. 2, 2024
What's happened to the hundreds of people who lived in "The Zone" as new encampments continue to crop up? The Show talked to one of them.
Apr. 1, 2024
The number of eviction filings in Maricopa County in 2023 was up more than 20% from pre-pandemic levels. And the trend appears to be continuing in the wrong direction in 2024. Landlords filed 8,025 evictions in January – the most ever for a single month.
Mar. 28, 2024
On Tuesday night, both rural and urban Natives traveled from near and far to the site of a former boarding school at Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix to share the devastating impacts of a sober-living-home scandal that gained widespread notoriety after the shutdown of more than 300 facilities last year.
Mar. 27, 2024
A state Senate Committee has passed a bill on a party line vote that would create a new $55 million Homeless Shelter and Services Fund.
Mar. 27, 2024
Since the 1970s, cities have been employing something called "hostile architecture" to try to keep certain people from being in certain places. Some states are now starting to rethink this, but Jonathan Pacheco Bell says it’s still very common in cities around the world.
Mar. 26, 2024
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