Houghton Hancock Area 25 Year Housing Plan

Housing is one of the most pressing issues facing communities today. It effects practically all demographics, especially students, minorities, and low-income workers. College towns are often face the toughest challenges, with many students experiencing an extremely high cost of living. Without a detailed housing plan drafted by community members there is no chance of improving the conditions of housing or their related expenditures. So, what should be done about housing in college towns? How can we hope to provide for a municipality’s citizens while keeping costs down? Can neighboring institutions and cities assist or should they give communities the autonomy to improve themselves? The answers, I hope, will be found within the rest of this essay.

Today, I am going to speak about the affordable housing in Pittsburgh .First let me tell about why the affordable housing is preferred. People who live in affordable housing today want safe, decent housing for the same reasons that we all do. The reasons are mainly to provide a nurturing environment to raise their children. Another reason is to remain in the community where they were raised or to become part of a community in which they want to settle. Finally, to live in an attractive, safe environment that they can afford. People who need affordable housing are ones that are employed as secretaries, school teachers, local government employees, restaurant workers and sales clerks. These workers need affordable housing because of the wide gap

Most students live on campus in one the six housing halls. Bayliss-Henninger and Tanner Halls are for first year students only. All first year students are required to stay in these halls for the first year. After freshman year students are allowed to stay in any of the other 4 housing halls. If students do not live on campus they rent a house in the surrounding area or perhaps an apartment(Western Illinois University).

My search for housing began only six weeks after I had packed my entire life up and moved from New Hampshire to JMU. Thankfully my sister is currently a senior here at JMU so she knew how important it was to sign a lease quickly because of how fast the housing complexes fill up. According to the Best College Rankings from US News and World Report, 13 percent of the students live in college owned, operated or affiliated housing and 87 percent of students live off campus at James Madison University (“James Madison…”). Since so many students live off campus, my friends and I decided that we were not going to live in the dorms again next year so we

Worcester City has a greater percentage of ethnic groups of people than Worcester Metropolitan Area. This data indicates that the city of Worcester is more diverse than the metropolitan area. In the city of Worcester, the median household income is 46,105, which is less than 65,453 in the Worcester Metropolitan Area. This implies that people who live outside of the city are better-off in economically. The percent of population in poverty is greater in the Worcester City than it is in the Worcester Metropolitan Area. 22.00 percent of the population in the Worcester city are in poverty, which is massive.

The focus of this paper is to dispel a common view that community colleges do not provide on-campus housing and to provide greater insights into the types of community colleges that provide on-campus housing, the typical student who resides in on-campus housing, a guide to various California community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and the impact that on-campus housing has on student learning outcomes, financial gains for community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and an overview of the lack of data in the area of not only on-campus housing in community colleges, but community colleges at large. According to Cohen and Brawer (2008) access to student housing is one of the fundamental dissimilarities between public

Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is one of the largest universities in Tennessee; however, they do not offer enough housing to provide for all of their students. As a result, students are expected to find their own housing off-campus. Hence, students must live in off-campus apartment complexes that are expensive, too far away, and difficult for young students to rent. While there are some benefits to off-campus housing, students face many problems in securing these types of housing situations. The prices of off-campus housing are high and the locations are often too far away from campus to walk. In addition, many apartment complexes do not want young, college-aged people living there.

Population in 2013 was 8,527, a growth of +3 % since 2010. Of this, approximately 5% were 65 years of age or older. Considering all households, about 14% were made up of individuals and roughly 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The 2012 per capita income for the CDP was $12,856, an increase from 2000. About 38.3% of families and 39.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 47.5% of those, age 65 or over. The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.74% Native American most of whom were

The median household income for the years 2009-2013 was $62,525 with 9.3% of the population below the poverty level (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). According to the census in the year 2000, the majority of families in the area had earnings of between $50,000.00 and $99,999.00 as shown in Figure 7 below (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). As was shown in Figure 3, it is apparent that most of the population can be categorized as white collar workers

Over the weekend my mother and I attend the Student Orientation Administration Registration or shall I say S.O.A.R. I thought it was fascinating. I had a great experience touring the campus, registering for my classes, and getting to know my advisors. Though the majority of everything we saw was great, I did find some things that I didn’t like. One in particular was Carondelet Hall. I believe housing is a very important part of living on campus. It’s where I will spend the majority of my time sleeping, doing countless amounts of homework, and relaxing after my long days. I understand Carondelet Hall is known for its traditional living experience, but I believe it’s too traditional for me. I need a place where I can have my own personal quiet

We looked at a variety of ways to help alleviate this cost. Since one of the main issues causing high living costs in the Bay Area is shortage of housing one of the possible solutions could be building more housing. Possible problems here are that San Francisco itself is not too big of a city and in most cities of this type in the world the population density is increased by building tall buildings –

This study discusses the risks that college students can be exposed to when choosing off campus housing. Initially, this article presents the property owners of rental properties as individuals who do not take care of their properties and have no concern for the tenant. Further reading of this article finds that due to the high turnover with rental properties and college students there is a greater risk of the student becoming physically sick due to the environment within the rental property. “Globally, housing is the single most important environmental factor associated with disease conditions and higher mortality and morbidity rates (United Nations, 2007)” (Johnson, Cole & Merrill, 2009, p. 2).

The population is largely white 95%, with the medium age in 2013 was 42.8 years old compared to the Commonwealth’s medium age of 39.1 years old indicating a large percentage of older adults. The population of the age group over age 65 increased by 32.8 percent a faster rate than the population of the town. The next class of 55-64 year olds increased by more than 50 percent during that same time frame indicating that the senior population will continue to grow for the next ten years according to the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission. The population of children in the town is declining with children under the age of 5 decreased by more than eighteen percent from 2000-2010, which may indicate a decline in school enrollment in the future (Montachusett Regional Planning Commission, 2013). The medium household income was $61,937 less than statewide of $66,658. The median household per capita income was $27,688, which is $8,000 less than the state average, with 26.6% of persons in the poverty range. The male Median income is $22,171 with the female median income at $18,178. Median housing value is $176,700 with total housing units 1,999 (2010-2014 American-Community Survey 5 Year Profiles). As the local manufacturing jobs continue to decline and local jobs continue to be concentrated in the service sector it will become more

In a dismal macroeconomic context, the gaping social inequities that the MET aims to alleviate continue with statewide and national declines in median family wealth by education level. In the first place, only 26.4% of Michigan residents 25 or older hold Bachelor’s degrees, which is beneath the national average of 29.3%. Arguably, a sizable part of the 73.6% of Michigan residents who do not hold Bachelor’s degrees must struggle to overcome the socio-economic barrier of the widening family wealth gap. Federal Reserve Bank data show that the gap in median family wealth widened among families with college education in contrast to those without it. Between 1989 and 2013, families holding 2 and 4-year college degrees experienced a slight median

NORTHAMPTON HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT Mary Clare Higgins, Mayor Prepared by the Northampton Housing Partnership Gordon Shaw, Chair Lynne Wallace, Vice Chair Martha Ackelsberg Northampton Housing Needs Assessment 1 Maureen Carney Margaret Murray Richard Abuza Betsy Siersma Technical support from Wayne Feiden, Director of Planning and Development, Peg Keller, Housing and Community Development Senior Planner, and Teri Anderson, Director of Community and Economic Dev. Karen Sunnarborg, Consultant Substantial component of a Strategic Housing Plan Serves as a local resource/reference on wide range of housing issues including characteristics, trends, market conditions, resources and priority needs Assists the Community Preservation Committee in