Habitat for Humanity plans 84-acre neighborhood
A Habitat for Humanity group is planning to build possibly hundreds of homes on an 84-acre site in Bloomington.
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New housing options for homeless foster stability
A 38-unit downtown apartment building for the chronically homeless that opened in January 2016 is Indianapolis’ first project to employ a so-called “housing first” model.
Indiana gets more than $600,000 in federal housing grants
The money will be used to make repairs and improvements to public housing units, as well as providing housing counseling to struggling consumers.
Programs for homeless suffer big cuts as feds shift priorities
Programs across Indianapolis that provide housing and support to the homeless are bemoaning a $687,540 decrease in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funding this year.
41 Indiana cities getting $22.5M to modernize public housing
The Indianapolis Housing Agency will receive $2.6 million.
Land bank successor aims for openness
A startup not-for-profit has begun returning vacant and tax-delinquent properties to the city’s tax rolls, stepping into a void left by the disgraced Indy Land Bank.
Wheeler Mission lands $1M grant to help with expansion
Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc. said Wednesday that it has received a donation from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust that will allow it to start construction on a new facility next to its shelter at 520 E. Market St. in downtown Indianapolis.
NFP of NOTE: Partners In Housing
Partners In Housing assists the homeless and people with special needs by eliminating barriers to safe, affordable housing through the creation of beneficial partnerships.
NFP of NOTE: Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County
Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County is dedicated to working in partnership with low-income families in Hamilton County under the conviction that every person should have a simple, decent, affordable place to live in safety and dignity.
Court case might roil not-for-profit tax rules
A Bartholomew County not-for-profit affordable housing development group is preparing to fight in Indiana Tax Court a denial of its property-tax exemption. The denial has put the organization
$200,000 in debt and its rental homes in danger of tax foreclosure.
John P. Craine House for women offenders moving to larger digs
The not-for-profit that offers alternative sentencing to women with young children will quadruple its capacity with move to former assisted-living facility on Michigan Road.
City slow to spend $29M in federal funding for neighborhoods
Indianapolis has lagged in making payments to not-for-profit developers executing a huge federal program to rehab neighborhoods, putting a strain on those groups and setting the city behind in spending its share of the money.
Housing group gets $6.3 million from Lilly Endowment
Lilly Endowment Inc. is continuing its decades-long support of the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, awarding the not-for-profit a $6.3 million grant to help low- and middle-income families become homeowners.
Homeless-aid group up and running in Indianapolis
A fast-growing national organization that gets homeless people involved in running is expanding to Indianapolis.
NFP of NOTE: Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County
Habitat for Humanity of Hamilton County is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian organization that is dedicated to working in partnership with families in Hamilton County under the conviction that every person should have a simple, decent, affordable place to live in safety and dignity.
Julian Center opens apartments for victims of domestic abuse
34 North, an apartment complex for victims of domestic abuse, opened in August at 34th and Meridian streets.
Habitat for Humanity builds green house in Cottage Home historic neighborhood
The house in the 1300 block of East Ninth Street is the first low-income home in the state to achieve platinum LEED certification.
Habitat foreclosures on rise
So far this year, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Indianapolis has filed six foreclosure suits, more than in any of the past
five years. The organization also repossessed four houses as a result of the prior year’s foreclosures. In a typical year,
CEO Dean Illingworth said, Indy Habitat takes back one or two houses, so the recent uptick is troubling.
Affordable-housing group goes on apartment-buying binge
Partners in Housing Development seized on a weak real estate market to acquire three urban apartment communities in the last
18 months.
Lilly Endowment boosts emergency fund by $1M
The fund has helped more than 6,000 households in six counties pay for housing, utilities and food.