Author Bios
Jane Adler is a Chicago-based freelancer writer.
An innovative program sponsored by the New York City Housing Partnership links local government and private developers to provide low-cost houses so that a family making a median income can once again afford a median-priced home in the city.
There’s more than one answer to meeting the complex challenge of affordability. In an effort to explore a few of the many successful efforts nationwide, REALTOR® Magazine Online is offering a year-long series of case studies highlighting housing opportunity best practices.
Long before affordability became a hot housing issue, Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood embraced a living laboratory of affordable strategies that actually seem to work.
In an effort to address both a deterioration of once-grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century-old Head of Montford neighborhood in Asheville.
