Virginia Housing

Beyond Bricks & Sticks. A weekly digest of current trends in housing and community development. The discussion examines topics from infrastructure to community fabric.

Census Data: Housing Costs Pinching Renters
How to Set Up a Facebook Page for Business
Succession Planning, Leader Development and Managing Executive Transitions-Register Now!
Doing Cool Stuff With Water
PLAYBOOK now available statewide-join the webinar!
Home Plate-Indianapolis adaptive reuse project converts a ballpark into residences

General Housing

Census Data: Housing Costs Pinching Renters

Nearly 20 million American households nationwide spend more than half of their income on housing—a severe burden that leaves many with little left over to meet their basic food, clothing, health care, and education needs. Homeowners greatly outnumber renters in the U.S., and have therefore represented the majority of burdened households throughout the past decade, even though the rate of cost burden is much higher among renters. But newly released Census data suggest this historical pattern may be changing.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/home-front/2013/03/25/census-data-housing-costs-pinching-renters

Capacity Building

How to Set Up a Facebook Page for Business

(RECAP: Facebook continues to change and evolve, making it a moving target for people trying to find the correct steps to set up a Page. But never fear—we have all the critical pieces that you need to put in place to start your Facebook Page today.)
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-set-up-a-facebook-page-for-business/

Succession Planning, Leader Development and Managing Executive Transitions - Register Now!

Housing Virginia, in partnership with BB&T, is bringing Transition Guides from Silver Spring, Maryland to deliver three one-day training events targeting executive leaders and their boards. The workshop will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of succession planning, leader development and managing executive transitions.
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs121/1102712869256/archive/1112755089391.html

Neighborhood Transformation

Doing Cool Stuff With Water

(RECAP: Across the country, storm water management is becoming a central consideration in the design and planning not just of individual lots, but of entire neighborhoods.)
http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/doing-cool-stuff-with-water

PLAYBOOK now available statewide - join the Webinar!

Housing Virginia offers PLAYBOOK as a resource for policy makers, housing advocates, and others interested in affordable housing. PLAYBOOK is a comprehensive inventory of affordable housing policies and programs within Virginia. PLAYBOOK provides the name and description the affordable housing policy or program and, optionally, additional details about the policy or program including local contact.
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs121/1102712869256/archive/1112805842185.html

Home Plate-Indianapolis adaptive reuse project converts a ballpark into residences

In Indianapolis, the minor league baseball team known as the Indians hasn’t played at the old Bush Stadium, on the city’s near-west side, since a new stadium opened downtown in 1996. But now Bush Stadium is getting back in the game: A creative adaptive reuse project will fill its grandstand not with fans but with loft apartments.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=6563