New River Housing

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Just want to post quickly notice that the Serenity Farm Halfway House for Men program is in the news. A nice article in Boone's High Country Press,May 24, 2007 issue, presents a little history, a program overview, and a discussion of our renovation need.
Addiction Recovery Center Faces Closure: Serenity Farm Needs $20,000 for Smoke Alarms Story by Bernadette Cahill.

From the outside, the red hut on U.S. Highway 221 looks like any gardener’s tool shed, but inside, like Dr. Who’s Tardis, it’s a different world. It positively
vibrates.

Only a select few ever enter. There, on sobriety day, new graduates of Serenity Farm get some solitude, an opportunity to reflect on their escape from drugs or alcohol and the chance to record their thoughts on the walls.

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Labels: housing program, substance abuse

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Here is some information from the Center for Housing Policy. The Center's mission as presented on their website:

The Center for Housing Policy is the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference (NHC). In partnership with NHC and its members, the Center works to broaden understanding of the Nation’s housing challenges and to examine the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.

Combining research and practical, real-world expertise, the Center helps to develop effective policy solutions at the national, state and local levels that increase the availability of affordable homes.

Shared Equity, Powerful Results: is an article on one way that local governments can make workforce housing affordable by sharing in the equity. In this way homeowners can cash out equity & upgrade their housing & the local government can keep affordable housing stock for the next users.
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