https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/realestate/travelers-new-orleans-art.html
Shana Betz and Walker Babington with their daughter, Willa, in the lobby of Travelers New Orleans. They are both artists who live in the building at no charge in exchange for working 20 hours a week there.Credit.Rory Doyle for The New York Times
In New Orleans, an Art Break Hotel
A new inn called Travelers New Orleans gives artists a roof, studio space and pocket money in exchange for some help around the house.
Shana Betz and Walker Babington with their daughter, Willa, in the lobby of Travelers New Orleans. They are both artists who live in the building at no charge in exchange for working 20 hours a week there.Credit.Rory Doyle for The New York Times
Millions of renters brace for a post-pandemic ax
The Biden administration is racing to end a bottleneck that has prevented state and local governments from distributing nearly $50 billion in rental assistance.
A rental sign is posted in front of an apartment complex Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Phoenix. | Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo
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The pandemic crisis is finally winding down for much of the country, with both vaccinations and the economy surging. But the Covid-19 housing crisis hasn’t even hit yet, and Washington’s efforts to head it off have stalled.
A federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire June 30, leaving millions of tenants facing long-term damage to their credit and the potential loss of their homes if they can’t scrape together more than a year’s worth of back rent. Now, the Biden administration is racing to end a bottleneck that has prevented state and local governments from distributing nearly $50 billion in rental assistance that Congress allo
/ Across Florida, there is a shortage of rental homes affordable and available to extremely low-income households.
Also called tenant-based Section 8, the Housing Choice Voucher program is the federal government s largest rental assistance program.
For the first time since 2015, Manatee County is now accepting applications for Section 8 Housing.
Federal Housing Choice Vouchers help low-income people find affordable housing in the private housing market by reimbursing the landlord for the difference between what a household can afford to pay in rent and the monthly rental cost itself.
The program is designed to help families who spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Severe rent burden is defined as paying more than 50 percent of one’s income on rent. The current percentage of renters in Manatee paying 30 percent or more of their income for gross rent is 52%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic stripped jobs away and raised home prices by up to 25%, Palm Beach County Commissioner Mack Bernard proposed a $150 million bond to address the affordable housing shortage in the county.
“Only 17% of the households can actually afford to buy a home in the county,” Bernard said.
People are having a hard time finding affordable rent and homeownership options. It’s an issue that isn’t going away any time soon and range of people are affected by it, from young workers to homeless single mothers with children who stopped by Bernard s office seeking help.
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| 5/3/2021
Florida has a ‘serious mismatch’ between housing costs and income
Nearly 1,000 people move to Florida every day, making Florida the second fastest-growing state in the country. Yet as housing demand increases, there aren’t enough options to meet the demand of those who need affordable housing. No state has an adequate supply of affordable housing, according to The Gap, an annual report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, published in March. Florida is one of the five states that are most challenging for extremely low-income renters to find affordable housing, along with Nevada, California, Oregon and Arizona. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune]