Important Resources
NLIHC out of reach article The Porchlight: July 2022Sign the SFAA Tax Credit Advocacy LetterRegister for Upstate Forever’s Advocacy Training 101Explore the Greenville Affordable Housing MapGreenville County ERAP ProgramGCARPP Community Intake SpecialistResources for Greenville County Residents Facing EvictionGAHC Affordable Housing Strategic Plan
GHF in the News
Check out where GHF has appeared in the news!
Post and Courier: Housing Advocates Testify Against Tax Credit Cap (March 2022)WSPA: Greenville Housing Impact Fund (February 2022)Greenville Journal: Heritage Hills Groundbreaking (February 2022)WSPA: The Alliance Nicholtown (January 2021)Greenville Journal: Greenville Moving in Right Direction on Affordable HousingPost and Courier: Charleston Creates Housing Trust FundWSPA: City Donates Two Parcels to Affordable HousingGreenville News: Section 8 in the UpstateGreenville News: Faith Groups and Housing (October 2021)Greenville News: Renaissance Place Now Leasing (October 2021)Greenville Journal: At GHF, Giving Matters (October 2021)Greenville News: Senior Housing in Southernside (October 2021)Greenville News: West End Faces Identity Crisis (September 2021)UBJ: Parkins Ridge Renovations (September 2021)Greenville News: Housing Projects Coming to Greenville (June 2021)Greenville News: Low Income Earners Need Housing Most (June 2021)Greenville Journal: GAHC Map and Updates (June 2021)GSA Business Report: Home Again Program (April 2021)Upstate Anecdotes Podcast (April 2021)Greenville News: Donated Parcels Near Unity Park (March 2021)WYFF: Donated Parcels Near Unity Park (February 2021)Greenville News: Mosaic at West End (November 2020)
Affordable Housing in Greenville
Articles about the affordable housing climate in Greenville County and across South Carolina
WSPA: New apartment development coming to GreenvilleUpstate Business Journal: Vinings at Brushy Creek to break ground Fox Carolina: Heritage HillsSC Public Radio: Racially Restrictive CovenantsGreenville Journal: Rising Rents and SprawlGreenville News: Habitat Proposes Townhomes in SterlingCity of Greenville 2023 Budget PrioritiesGreenville Journal: City Development Code Open HousesGreenville Journal: What Does Affordable Housing Mean?The State: Affordable Housing and the Worker ShortageGreenville Journal: Nicholtown Remains a Tight-Knit CommunityGreenville News: Housing Market in Greenville CountyGreenville News: 16,000 Evictions in Greenville Since March 2020Greenville Journal: CommunityWorks Receives $525KGreenville News: Greenville Home Prices Grew by 15% in 2021CBS 60 Minutes: National Worker ShortagePost and Courier: SC State Housing Tax CreditGreenville News: Home Prices in Greenville CountyGreenville News: Rent Increases Outpacing Home PricesGreenville Journal: Homes of HopeThe State: Greenville’s Growth PlanGreenville News: City LMO RewriteGreenville News: Single Family vs. Multifamily DevelopmentPost and Courier: Greenville County BudgetGreenville News: 2021 Housing Needs AssessmentWYFF: A Tale of Two GreenvillesMetropolitan Magazine: Feature on Greenville Parks Greenville News: Poe Mill Site Sells for $1 MillionGreenville Journal: Affordable Senior HousingWSPA: Greenville Rezoning for Hotel HousingGreenville News: How Do We Define Affordable Housing?Greenville News: UHC and HomeownershipWYFF: County Council ForumNBC: Evictions in SC Signal Housing Crisis
National Affordable Housing News
Articles about the affordable housing climate in the United States and what other cities have done to address the housing crisis
Fannie Mae: Fannie Mae Launches rent payment reporting program to help renters build credit Next City: This Oakland Group Has a Plan to Make ADUs Easier to Finance and BuildShelterforce: What is the Financialization of HousingYahoo Finance: New Report Identifies Local Housing Policy Solutions That Can Help Cities Increase Affordable Housing, Improve Health and Racial EquityNext City: Innovative Housing Can Address Affordability and Aging in PlaceAxios: Why rents are soaring pretty much everywhere in the U.S.Bloomberg: Nationwide Housing Correction Is Coming Asthma ED Visits Can Indicate Poor Housing ConditionsBlock Club: Chicago’s New Affordable Housing OrdinanceAP News: Affordable Housing for TeachersNLIHC Out Of Reach ReportNYT The Morning: Homelessness in AmericaThe Guardian: Majority of Neighborhoods Unaffordable for NonwhitesAP News: Lack of Housing Squeezing College StudentsGoverning: Reintroducting SRO HousingFortune: Employer-Assisted Housing ProgramsCurbed: Housing Court is BreakingCityLab: Affordable Housing and Property ValuesVox: Affordable Housing and WeatherizationCBS News: Renters of Color Face Higher Rent CostsShelterforce: LIHTC Affordability Protections are ExpiringNext City: Art and Black HomeownershipNPR: Affordable Housing ShortageNYT: Remote Appraisals Can Prevent Racial BiasVox: The Case for an Economic Fair Housing ActLisa Rice: Centering Community Development in Fair Housing PrinciplesBlack History Month: Buchanan v. WarleyNYT: Federal Rental Assistance is Running OutBrookings: Appraisal DiscriminationBloomberg CityLab: Racial Discrimination Still PresentUrban Institute: Housing Wealth EquitabilityBloomberg: Technology and HousingNYT: The Eviction Wave Is GrowingBusiness Insider: Housing Crisis and Labor ShortageNext City: Mobile Home Parks as ROCsNYT: Rising Rents Create InflationFast Company: Vertical Farming and HousingNew Republic: Housing and Severe WeatherThe Atlantic: Section 8 & Universal Public RentUrban Institute: Small Landlords and COVID-19Bloomberg CityLab: Racial Discrimination in Today’s Housing MarketGoverning: Redlining Didn’t Happen Like We Thought It DidAHACO Work and Home StudyNYT: Fannie Mae to Consider Rent Payment HistoryNYT: Charlottesville’s Zoning FightVox: Exclusionary Zoning ExplainedBloomberg: Housing Repairs Reduce CrimeBloomberg: Universal DesignNBC4: New Inititiave for Minority Homeownership in OhioWSJ: Eviction MoratoriumNYT: Los Angeles’s Low-Rise Design ContestCNBC: Minimum Wage Earners Can’t Afford HousingNYT: Federal Eviction Moratorium ExtendedUrban Institute: Forthcoming Senior Rental CrisisBloomberg: Harvard’s State of the Nation’s Housing ReportBloomberg: States Crack Down on WholesalingBloomberg: Choice in Affordable Housing ActNYT: North Fork Mobile Home ParkBloomberg: LA’s Missing Middle Housing ContestNAHB: Record High Materials PricesIndianapolis Star: Discrimination in Home AppraisalsCenter for American Progress: Housing Stability and IncarcerationUrban Institute: Facing Facts About Housing InjusticeBrookings: International Rental Housing LessonsBloomberg: Minimum Parking RequirementsFast Company: NextDoor and HomelessnessBrookings: Housing WeatherizationSlate: Turning Empty Offices Into ApartmentsNYT: How Biden Can Free America from its Zoning StraightjacketNYT: President Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure PlanBloomberg: Housing Supply and Affordability ActThe Atlantic: The Case for Public OwnershipBloomberg: Local Policies that Will Outlast the PandemicVox: America’s Historic Racism in HousingBloomberg: How Housing Insecurity Affects SleepNYT: Pandemic’s Toll on HousingCNBC: Turning Hotels into Affordable HousingUSA Today: How Government Actions Perpetuate RacismBloomberg: Biden’s Fair Housing PlanBloomberg: Turning Strip Malls into HousingUS News & World Report: Atlanta’s Affordable HousingBloomberg: Climate Change & Affordable HousingBloomberg: NAHT $1 Billion InvestmentDaniel Cunningham & the Social Impact of Housing