Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Self-Help is a national community development financial institution headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Between the years of 1980-2017, Self-Help reportedly provided over $7 billion in financing to 146,000 families, individuals and businesses. It aims to drive economic development and strengthen communities by providing financial services ...
Pembroke, North Carolina, is the headquarters of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and members mainly live in Robeson County, as well as Hoke, Cumberland, and Scotland counties in south-central North Carolina. [1] The tribal headquarters, known as the Turtle, was built in Pembroke in 2009. [19] Individual tribal members live across the United ...
Granville Towers is a student housing facility serving the students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is not owned by the university, but incoming first-years, who are required to live in student housing, are able to live there. Granville Towers has been up and running for over 40 years and offers UNC students a complete ...
In Alexander County, 17% of households struggle with housing costs, with renters accounting for 33% and homeowners 14%, according to a North Carolina Housing report.
Mutual self-help housing is a government program in the United States to assist groups of low-income families in building their own homes. Each family is expected to contribute at least 700 hours of labor in building homes for each other. Participating families generally have low income and are unable to pay for homes built by the contract method.
The Low Income Housing Institute serves the Puget Sound region of Western Washington. LIHI programs serve homeless and low-income people in Snohomish, King, Island, Kitsap, Pierce and Thurston Counties. LIHI housing serves communities in Seattle, Lynnwood, Lacey, Olympia, Tacoma, Bremerton, and smaller towns throughout the region.
The memorandum was the basis for the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA), which established grant and support programs specifically for the use of American Indian and Alaska Native groups. NAHASDA was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY) on March 29, 1996 [11] as H.R. 3219.
Tenants union. A tenants union, also known as a tenants association, is a group of tenants that collectively organize to improve the conditions of their housing and mutually educate about their rights as renters. [1] [2] Groups may also lobby local officials to change housing policies or address homelessness.