Housing

The Point-in-Time count, part of a nationwide effort to count the number of people experiencing homelessness and connect them to services, takes place on Tuesday.

U.S. homelessness rates hit a record high last year, which housing experts link squarely to a severe housing shortage that has helped drive up prices.

Today, the three-story, 46-room hotel’s windows are boarded up, and the inside is largely gutted. But when the Bergmann opened in 1913, it was considered “the epitome of style and class.”

Some houses in Nunapitchuk sit on their own little hills as the soil erodes around them. Whole neighborhoods have sunk as seeping sewage mixes with the melting tundra.

The commercial lease will subsidize rent for affordable housing units upstairs.

Around the country, cities are throwing out their own parking requirements, hoping to end up with less parking – and more affordable housing, better transit, and walkable neighborhoods.

Service providers say 163 people have used the new warming shelter since October.

There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.

The city’s fire chief said the department would not support the project due to its location.

Participants can select their favorite of four design concepts.