Right-Sized Homes, LLC

Hi, Folks! I'm offering a one hour class on homebuying next Tuesday, Oct 13, at 7:00 pm, through a platform that a colleague of mine, Gari Weilbacher has set up for a wide range of one hour mini-courses. Here is the link to sign up; there is a modest $10 fee to support the platform: https://www.crowdsourcingdelight.com//buying-a-house-in-th

Here's an interesting article from an unlikely source on national policies that could help increase the production and renovation of affordable housing units nationally. https://dsnews.com//policies-that-could-improve-the-afford

Because we could all use a good news story right about now: https://www.radio.com//affordable-housing-program-grants-w

Follow the link and please vote to help get a grant for tiny home communities being built in Missouri with wrap around services to move folks out of homelessness: https://magazine.realtor//a-tiny-movement-with-a-big-heart

Pew just released a report on the nature of cost burdened households and housing in Philadelphia. It studies Philadelphia in comparison with the ten most populous US cities and the ten cities with the highest poverty rates. Only Philadelphia and Houston are on both lists. Some key findings: Poverty is the larger driver of cost burden in Philadelphia than is the actual cost of housing Burden is much more prevalent among renters than homeowners, and our homeownership rate h...as declined Our cost burden is actually less in many regards than it was a decade ago, but not by much Homeowners are much less cost burdened because so many are mortgage free, but over half of those are headed by someone over 64 years of age Our rents are very low compared with most of the populous cities, but high compared to other high poverty cities Our monthly ownership cost is low compared with both types of cities There are several barriers to moving more lower income renters to homeownership https://www.pewtrusts.org//the-state-of-housing-affordabil See more

What a great program, at Auburn University's architecture school, to study, design and build a "20k" home each year for a rural resident. http://ruralstudio.org/our-projects/

We need to create 2 million new housing units a year to meet the needs of those who are poorly and inadequately housed, not just those at the top of the income scales...says this article written in 1954, and still applicable today: https://nhc.org/2-million-houses-a-year/

Yet another place where Black lives-and their homes-are devalued. https://www.nytimes.com//blacks-minorities-appraisals-disc

Philadelphia's Adaptive Modification Program, which provides modifications to homes of low-income homeowners with permanent disabilities, is open again after being on hold due to the pandemic: https://phdcphila.org//hom/adaptive-modifications-program/

After being on hold during the pandemic, Philadelphia's Basic System Home Repair program is again accepting applications for repairs to homes of low-income homeowners: https://phdcphila.org//home-/basic-systems-repair-program/