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How To Rent An Apartment with Low Income Or No Income At All

Here are some of the tried and tested work around to rent an apartment with low or no income at all.

11 Apartment Hunting Tips for Renters

Land the right new rental home the smart way, with this insight to help you focus, organize and avoid surprises

Where Are Lower-Income Renters Supposed to Live?

While more Americans across all income levels and in all cities are choosing renting over buying, apartments are increasingly only being built for high-income renters.

How To Rent An Apartment With Bad Credit but High Income

Tips and advice on how you can rent an apartment even without the strongest credit score.

6 Designer Tips to Make Your Home Look Expensive

Colleges find innovative partnerships with housing authorities to combat student homelessness

Some community colleges have found innovative partnerships with their public housing authorities may help combat student homelessness.

Housing Authority’s Plan to Build on Parking Lots Sparks Hope, Fear and Criticism

The Housing Authority has come up with a potential source of money for much-needed repairs: let developers build on the parking lots of public housing and generate millions for the cause.

Public Housing Authorities Find Power in Solar

Municipal owners are taking advantage of this viable source of sustainability, jobs, savings and revenue.

Did you get email asking for documents related to a housing development?

If you got an email asking you for documents related to a housing development near the Bend Costco, you can probably just delete it. The City accidentally emailed more than a thousand people and its computer system doesn't allow it to send a follow-up email telling them it was a mistake. If you received one of the erroneous emails, the city says you should just disregard it.

Solar and affordable housing developments: What you need to know

Both housing developers and underserved communities alike can benefit from increasing public funding opportunities for solar. As interest in projects that address environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects of investment continues to grow, integrating renewable energy in affordable housing projects can provide significant sustainability benefits to developers, municipalities, and end users.

Is Seniors Housing Development Really Overheating? Most Markets Don’t See the Risk

While national rates of construction have been accelerating, most markets are experiencing modest, if any, active development.

Q: Does affordable housing development lower nearby property values?

Affordable housing does not lower property values. In fact it often raises them. We're not referencing one study--we're referencing 56 of them.

Offering More Than a Roof, These Housing Authorities Help Residents Become Financially Self Reliant

To help residents transition into well-paying jobs and ultimately traditional housing, forward-thinking public housing agencies are offering services, such as job training, academic tutoring, financial counseling, and more.

When Is an Affordable Housing Development Fee Not Really a Development Fee?

The Appellate Division has drawn a bright-line distinction between two types of development fees; developers should be aware.

EBR Housing Authority, BRAC say it may be hard to find affordable housing

Folks around the capital region may have a hard time finding a place to live, prices are rising due to a lack of inventory.

Portland Housing Authority tenants in three buildings complain of ongoing bug infestations

“Sleeping is very uncomfortable because you don't know when you're going to get bitten or where they are exactly.”

Counterpoint: Why fees are a necessary part of housing development

A recent report from a builders' group exaggerated their effect on costs.

Planning board expecting big increase in housing applications

Strategic Housing Development scheme being used accelerate the development process

Holy housing developments! How God is getting into construction

Cash-strapped churches are raising money by inviting developers to build pricey flats on their turf. Is this the promised land for faith buildings – or a deal with the devil?

Losing Nonprofit Control of Tax Credit Housing?

How an ambiguous legal definition is endangering nonprofits’ control of dozens of affordable housing developments in the final years of their tax credit agreements.