The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced Thursday that it will use the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender.
Volunteers conduct count of people experiencing homelessness in KCMO
Kora Wilkes work with Hope Faith Ministries usually takes her to makeshift homeless camps around Kansas City. And on Wednesday, she used her knowledge to help count those who are experiencing homelessness.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Kora Wilkes work with Hope Faith Ministries usually takes her to makeshift homeless camps around Kansas City.
And on Wednesday, she used her knowledge to help count those who are experiencing homelessness. The app is really cool because it allows for a pin to be placed on a map so later, we ll be able to have data that we can go back and look at and see this is how many people were in this spot, Wilkes said. This is how many people were in this spot. And a lot of the questions in there also kind of geared towards like, what needs are not being met.
FAIRMONT — The COVID pandemic has forced groups that conduct an annual count of homeless residents in Marion County to spread the event over a number of weeks this year.
Builders, lawmakers seek housing solutions January 27 2021
Annual summit addresses the need for many more homes to be built in Oregon every year.
New home construction was one of the brightest economic stars last year. After a 13-year slump caused by the Great Recession, housing starts returned to historic levels in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
But annual construction in Oregon needs to increase by one-third over the next 20 years to provide enough additional housing to ease the affordable housing crisis and to reduce homelessness. The state currently needs nearly 600,000 additional units of all kinds to meet the existing and projected demand through 2040.