Housing

A $34 million OneGeorgia grant program with a hard FY2026 deadline is forcing rural governments to find development partners fast.

The Spokane Housing Authority is betting that putting affordable housing and childcare in the same place can break the cycle keeping low-income families unstable.

The city is offering a parcel near the SMART rail station to developers, under state pressure to plan for thousands of new homes by 2031.

The 1956 Bensonhurst branch would be razed and replaced with a modern library and 100% affordable apartments, but the project faces years of approvals in a neighborhood wary of new density.

With the state legislature deadlocked on housing reform, the tribe is deploying a $40 million sovereign fund and a first-in-the-nation federal loan program to fill an $1.75 billion gap.

A county long defined by demolition and depopulation is now seeking a developer to build workforce and market-rate single-family homes on vacant land bank parcels.