Folks For Good Housing - Winston Salem

02/22/2024

Join WSRISE for the upcoming introduction of the WS RISE Forsyth County Neighborhood Opportunity Index on 2/28/2024

07/12/2023

Excellent article which details some the funding that is being established in Charlotte for affordable housing. What is interesting is it a good amount of money from private corporations which are stepping up to the plate and funding acquisition and rehab of existing units. This could be us. Ally Winston-Salem, North Carolina Forsyth County News

In addition to a $4 million commitment to two Charlotte affordable-housing funds, Ally will also award grants to nine local agencies.

04/14/2023

“Looking only at single-family homes, the rate of housing starts would need to triple to keep up with demand and close the existing 6.5 million home gap in 3 to 4 years.” United Way of Forsyth County Winston-Salem Journal | JournalNow Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The United States is not building enough homes to account for the number of people setting up their own households. As a result, there is a sizable shortage of new homes after more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth, according to a new analysis from Realtor.com released We...

03/11/2023

City governments have a great deal of influence over housing costs, with many policy levers at their disposal to increase the supply of homes and improve housing affordability.

Below are ten steps local leaders can take to help constituents who are contending with high housing costs.

United Way of Forsyth County Forsyth County Government Ctr Winston-Salem, North Carolina

This blog covers ten actions local leaders can take to improve housing affordability.

02/09/2023

Building more is not a panacea on its own. In fact, it can make the crisis worse without strong policies designed to help low-income people stay in affordable housing. Downtown Winston Salem Neighborhood Group Winston-Salem, North Carolina United Way of Forsyth County

America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.

01/18/2023

Impact on the ability to afford housing ?

Emergency food benefits instituted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic will be ending in March. Supplemental food allotments from a national Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) program began in March 2020. Eligible households have been receiving at least an extra $95 per month, on top of regular...

01/12/2023

Making housing affordable for all is not simple, but these ideas may be a starting point in 2023. United Way of Forsyth County Forsyth County North Carolina Government

Developers, mortgage lenders, and local governments can take steps in 2023 to ensure that more people have affordable housing.

12/20/2022

Experts share insights on this challenging sector, in the second installment of our outlook series. United Way of Forsyth County Forsyth County News

Affordable housing experts share their views and concerns about the industry, and discuss the potential effects of the looming recession.

12/12/2022

The survey of 1,008 U.S. adults, conducted by Qualtrics on behalf of Credit Karma between Oct. 21 and Oct. 31, revealed Americans were primarily uncertain about their homeownership prospects due to high mortgage rates and an increased cost of living, with mortgage rates having more than doubled over the past year and consumer prices up 7.7% in October compared to the same month a year earlier, Credit Karma said. Winston-Salem, North Carolina United Way of Forsyth County

54% of respondents to a Credit Karma survey said they didn’t believe they could ever afford homeownership.

12/06/2022

In September 2022, a median-income household would have had to spend a little over 46 percent of its income to afford a median-priced home. That’s a 14-point spike from September 2021, when a household had to spend about a third of its income to afford a home in its community.

Affordable housing shouldn’t be out of reach .

Winston-Salem, North Carolina United Way of Forsyth County Bloomberg Businessweek

Housing affordability nationwide is the worst it’s ever been on record due to spike in home prices and interest rates

11/28/2022

Interesting read about what's happening in Asheville to address affordable housing issues. Winston-Salem, North Carolina Forsyth County News United Way of Forsyth County

Buncombe's Affordable Housing Committee makes a proposal for about 3,000 affordable housing units to be built by 2030.

11/10/2022

The shortage of affordable housing is an ongoing challenge in the United States and right here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

"About 20 million households in the U.S. are paying more than a third of their income on rent, and there’s a shortfall of about seven million homes for people with very low incomes."

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Fast Company Forsyth County News

Creative solutions for a persistent problem.