What's missing from the housing equation? Infrastructure, such as public sewer systems. And although the price tag is more than small towns can afford, grants are often out of reach By Tim Rowland By land mass, the village of Speculator in the … [Read more...] about Taking Stock of Housing: Infrastructure woes limit growth
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Help is on the way: Homeshare programs
What is it? Homeshare programs typically match older people with bigger houses than they need with younger individuals or families in need of housing. Younger people get reduced rent in exchange for doing chores like mowing grass, shoveling snow and … [Read more...] about Help is on the way: Homeshare programs
Housing series to wrap with in-person event
The gap between what people earn and the housing they can afford has been widening in the Adirondacks. Add to the problem a shortage of available housing and constraints on development and you've got a housing crisis. This summer, Adirondack … [Read more...] about Housing series to wrap with in-person event
Taking Stock of Housing: Market mayhem
Why we can't 'single family home our way out' of this dilemma By Tim Rowland Thumbing through a 2023 report underwritten by the Lake Champlain/Lake George Planning Board, Jeremy Evans, director of the Franklin County Industrial Development … [Read more...] about Taking Stock of Housing: Market mayhem
Help is on the way: Auxiliary Dwelling Units
What are they? Auxiliary Dwelling Units, AUDs, sometimes known as “granny flats,” are annexes to existing homes, usually in the form of a small apartment fashioned out of a garage, basement, outbuilding or an addition to the main home. How do they … [Read more...] about Help is on the way: Auxiliary Dwelling Units
Taking Stock of Housing: ‘Housing is health’
The struggles are intertwined, say public health employees By Tim Rowland At a time when he should have been enjoying retirement and a permanent retirement home, Gene Hoffman was taking a job with the town highway crew and living in an RV, … [Read more...] about Taking Stock of Housing: ‘Housing is health’