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One of the greatest challenges facing rural Iowa today is maintaining and expanding access to affordable, quality housing. On Talk of Iowa we took a look at why and at what some communities are doing to address the issue: https://lnkd.in/gwquFwjP

How can communities support a church that faced significant damage due to a fire, impacting its community center and outreach programs? Community Center at La Mesa Church Damaged in Fire. A fire caused around $300,000 in damage to La Mesa Adventist Church's community center in California. The blaze, starting in vegetation, spread to the building, damaging the interior and exterior. The cause is under investigation. The Sparrow Academy on church grounds was unaffected. Key Takeaways: - Swift Fire Response: Efficient collaboration between fire departments highlights the importance of quick response to minimize damage in emergency situations. - Community Impact: Fires affecting places of worship underline the vulnerability of community spaces and the need for support during recovery. - Outreach Program Continuity: Despite the fire, maintaining services like the church's outreach program demonstrates resilience in continuing community support efforts. #churchsafety https://lnkd.in/gRBTE-4c

How can tenants purchase their homes? In this webinar conversation, coproduced by NPQ and Shelterforce, advocates discuss how tenants can organize at the local level to build tenant power and purchase their homes. https://bit.ly/3zuNQJK

Building affordable housing in California? Not so fast.

National Right to Housing... your gift today will have double the impact in: -Strengthening tenant protections (like rent control) -Amplifying the voices of marginalized communities -Ensuring governments build not just housing –but affordable housing -Holding government accountable for their obligation to treat housing as a fundamental human right for all

Did you know that non-profit organizations, government agencies, individuals looking for housing, and university students enjoy complimentary access to the National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD)? The NHPD is an address-level inventory of federally assisted rental housing in the US. The agencies and departments that fund these programs have data on the individual programs that they manage, but there was no central location where all of these data are integrated. This made it difficult to get a clear picture of the current stock of public and affordable housing in a community. It also means those who wish to preserve public and affordable housing in their community could not easily get the information they need about particular properties. The NHPD was created to address these issues. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g799YTVS

Did you know that non-profit organizations, government agencies, individuals looking for housing, and university students enjoy complimentary access to the National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD)? The NHPD is an address-level inventory of federally assisted rental housing in the US. The agencies and departments that fund these programs have data on the individual programs that they manage, but there was no central location where all of these data are integrated. This made it difficult to get a clear picture of the current stock of public and affordable housing in a community. It also means those who wish to preserve public and affordable housing in their community could not easily get the information they need about particular properties. The NHPD was created to address these issues. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g799YTVS

Did you know that non-profit organizations, government agencies, individuals looking for housing, and university students enjoy complimentary access to the National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD)? The NHPD is an address-level inventory of federally assisted rental housing in the US. The agencies and departments that fund these programs have data on the individual programs that they manage, but there was no central location where all of these data are integrated. This made it difficult to get a clear picture of the current stock of public and affordable housing in a community. It also means those who wish to preserve public and affordable housing in their community could not easily get the information they need about particular properties. The NHPD was created to address these issues. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g799YTVS

Did you know that non-profit organizations, government agencies, individuals looking for housing, and university students enjoy complimentary access to the National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD)? The NHPD is an address-level inventory of federally assisted rental housing in the US. The agencies and departments that fund these programs have data on the individual programs that they manage, but there was no central location where all of these data are integrated. This made it difficult to get a clear picture of the current stock of public and affordable housing in a community. It also means those who wish to preserve public and affordable housing in their community could not easily get the information they need about particular properties. The NHPD was created to address these issues. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g799YTVS

It’s always nice to share good news about and from senior communities around the country. Frankly, good news comes my way much more frequently than I can keep up with, which is a sentence that put a smile on my face as I typed it. #seniorlivingnews #seniorcommunityforum #seniorliving #meadowridge