Affordable Housing

INDIANAPOLIS — Across Indiana there is a shortage of homes that are affordable for extremely low-income renters, according to Prosperity Indiana. A new project on the north side of Indianapolis aims to improve that situation. Today, the city broke ground on Forty Six Flats, an apartment complex on 46th Street, between Keystone Avenue and Allisonville Road. […]

INDIANAPOLIS — The Plaza at Central Greens is a $36 million investment that will create 122 new affordable apartments. The complex is being built in the Haughville neighborhood on the site of the former Central State Hospital. There will be two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartment options ranging in price from $800 to $1,400 a month. Families […]

INDIANAPOLIS — According to the Horizon House, an organization that provides service to people experiencing homelessness, there are around 1,800 people that aren’t housed. Earlier this month, the city of Indianapolis committed $7.8 million to building over 100 permanent supportive housing units. “These 100 units are going to be fantastic,” Leslie Kelly, the Program Director of […]

Dr. Ben Carson and I are both African-American men who hail from Detroit. And that’s where the similarities end. Carson, who has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to become the next Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a brilliant neurosurgeon but who has zero experience running a massive federal agency. […]

New York's storied history of gentrification, gerrymandering and inflation makes affordable housing a convoluted issue.