affordable housing

Legislators on Kentucky’s Housing Task Force have heard the same refrain time and again over the past few months: The Commonwealth needs more places to live, especially more affordable and middle-income housing. But, Monday’s meeting drew attention to challenges that some officials say prevent those options from being built.

In Kentucky, evictions follow people for years after court proceedings, often acting as a long-term barrier to stable housing. But state-level efforts to remove evictions from tenants’ records are gaining momentum.

Nashville is funneling more money into affordable housing and hiring someone to direct affordable housing across city government. Mayor John Cooper announced Monday that he’s doubling the money previously announced that will go in the Barnes Fund, which is used to help nonprofit developers build new units that will remain affordable.

Former residents of Morehead’s North Fork Mobile Home Park are suing the city after a local measure paved the way for their mass eviction earlier this year.

Anyone in Louisville can now get eviction prevention funds from city government programs, regardless of income.Until last week, such assistance was only…

Leaders of a Tennessee city are struggling to find a solution to rising homelessness and poverty rates as housing costs increase and Section 8 housing…

Builders of affordable housing say the House Republican tax plan has a poison pill inside it that removes a tax incentive crucial for about half of the affordable housing units that get built.

The low-income housing tax credit program gave way to a booming $8 billion private industry, but as tax credits for companies increased, the number of housing units being built for the poor fell.