Home › News ›

BLM's Affordable Housing Program Unpopular

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
30 November 2004 - 10:00am

Municipalities show little interest in Bureau of Land Management's program to make land available at discounted rates for affordable housing.

"The idea looks good on paper: Release land at below-market value -- in some cases discounting by as much as 95 percent -- to local governmental entities, including housing authorities, so affordable housing can be built.

It's a simple idea that becomes a not-so-simple proposition when federal and local governments and the business world intersect."

Full Story: BLM's affordable housing program still unpopular with municipalities
Source: Las Vegas Sun, November 29, 2004
»
Bookmark and Share
“
These interconnections ratify for us the sense that markets are as strong as confidence is present and confidence is as justified as patterns are dependable. These are what might be called our community moorings: anchored, tangible patterns.
”