David Hastings, the director of Housing Opportunities of Northern Kentucky, known locally as HONK, gave a special presentation at Tuesday night’s Dayton City Council meeting, where he highlighted the importance of the homeownership-focused nonprofit. HONK started in 1991 as a project organized by John Binzer, of Erlanger, and Fr. Jack Goeke to solve the housing […]
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Affordable housing alternatives in NKY: Tackling cost, supply
Matt Mains stood before the Kenton County Planning Commission in September. Mains, a development manager with Drees Homes, was seeking a zoning change that would allow for a development with homes priced between $350,000 and $550,000. He responded to pushback from commissioners, who felt the prices seemed too steep. “Right now it’s nearly impossible to […]
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Conversations on the challenge of growth in rural NKY | affordable housing, a few of my 2023 favorites
Sometimes, you sit down to write a story and suffer from writer’s block, and other times, you know you have put together something good. My top five stories of the year happen to all be stories featured in our weekly print edition. We spend more time and dig a little deeper for these stories than […]