by LCD Staff | Jan 13, 2020 | Affordable Housing, DREAM Fund, Home Loans, Housing, News & Analysis
(Source: The Washington Post) — They’re here. For years, real estate agents and builders eagerly anticipated the entrance of millennials into the housing market. Millennials, a generation now larger than the baby boomers, were battered by the financial crisis as...
by LCD Staff | Dec 23, 2019 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Economic Development, Housing, NeighborWorks America, North Dakota
Say “statistics” and you’ll get some powerful reactions. For some, the very word elicits dread, while, for others, it prompts flashbacks to high school and college classes. For many, it makes eyelids heavy. And, when verbalized, it can cause the mind...
by LCD Staff | Sep 29, 2019 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Economic Development, Home Loans, Housing, NeighborWorks America, Programs
Earlier this month, LCD Group Executive Director Brent Ekstrom traveled to Knoxville, Tenneseee to attend NeighborWorks America Rural Membership Conference, ‘Reclaiming Appalachia: Investing in Community, Cooperation and Change.’ NeighborWorks America...
by LCD Staff | Jul 30, 2019 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Housing, North Dakota, Projects
Ground was finally broken last week on the new Century Cottages apartment complex located at 2724 Hawken Street in Bismarck. The event officially marks the start of construction on the new facility which will feature 35 one- and two-bedroom apartments for seniors and...
by LCD Staff | Jun 30, 2019 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Housing
In November 2017, the Ruth Meiers Hospitality House closed its men’s emergency homeless shelter. That action caused a ripple effect throughout the Bismarck-Mandan area. The closure immediately presented an urgent challenge to find housing for the community’s homeless...
by LCD Staff | Jun 14, 2019 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Projects
(NEWS RELEASE FROM LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES; JUNE 13, 2019) FARGO, N.D. – Recognizing the Bismarck area’s need for safe, stable affordable housing, Lutheran Social Services Housing (LSSH), a statewide provider of affordable housing since 2008, and CommunityWorks North...
