GUEST COMMENTARY: Increase access to clean, safe, affordable housing

About 800,000 people call Northwest Indiana their home, and I am glad to be among them. We live in an important region comprised of industrious people who contribute to the success and prosperity of our state and nation.

Chesterton grows smart, keeps charm

When I tell people Chesterton has an economic development philosophy of smart growth, they ask me what smart growth means. Smart growth means we don’t rush into building the town or bringing in a development without really looking it over.

Feds seek hike in Ill. mortgage guarantee fees

The Federal Housing Finance Agency wants to adjust fees homeowners in Illinois and four other states pay to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to guarantee their single-family home mortgages.

YOUNG VOICES: Grassroots activism works in South Bend

If you're like me, you thought the Occupy Wall Street movement had about as much chance of achieving any sort of success as the Rick Santorum campaign. Arguing that 1 percent of America is wholly responsible for the recession is a narrow and simplistic explanation for a large and complex pro…

Gary Housing Authority receives grant for veterans

GARY | Fifteen local veterans now will have a chance to find a home of their own thanks to a grant from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development's Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program.

Community group continuing free housing services

The Northwest Indiana Reinvestment Alliance is making free counseling and educational services available to residents needing assistance with housing issues through the end of the month.

Suburbs have fast-growing poor population

Landscaped yards are being cluttered with for sale signs as homeowners face tough economic times in the suburbs.

Suburbs have fast-growing poor population

The white picket fences and minivans that once characterized many suburbs have slowly been replaced by boarded up windows and public transit buses.

One bright spot of the housing market: homes have never been more affordable

In the first quarter of 2011, national housing affordability hit its highest ever level, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index, which has tracked home prices for more than 20 years.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Has the Neighborhood Stabilization Program failed already?

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an innovative program called the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. It was established to stabilize communities suffering from foreclosures, homelessness and blight.

MARK KIESLING: Give councilman a chance, not a pass

It's time for the Winfield Town Council to abide by the spirit of the law, not the letter.

GUEST EDITORIAL: NWI must improve access to affordable housing

Nothing measures the quality of life in Northwest Indiana better than the availability of good, affordable housing, along with the financial literacy that makes home ownership possible.

HUD awards $73 million to housing counseling groups

Housing counseling agencies in Crown Point, Hammond and Valparaiso are among more than 500 groups around the country slated to share about $72.9 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Advocates hopeful for plan to turn around Chicago neighborhoods

CHICAGO | The City Council will decide Nov. 15 whether to set aside 20 percent of the money from tax increment financing districts to rebuild neighborhoods devastated by the foreclosure crisis.