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 | Sep 19, 2019 | Housing, News & Analysis
(Credit: The MReport) — For the first time, the annual growth rate in home sales to first-time buyers under performed the single-family housing market, as first-time buyers purchased 4% fewer homes in Q2 2019 than last year, according to Genworth. First-time...
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...
