Hampson gave $25,000 to Home HeadQuarters for Friday’s annual volunteer block blitz – a massive, one-day makeover of a neighborhood on the city’s South Side. He announced another $50,000 for the non-profit to use for more projects.
Read MoreArtist and painter, Pat Condon (@pat_the_painter on Instagram), along with a volunteer team from Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts (one of three SU teams), will paint a sidewalk mural along a quarter mile of the Creek Walk
Read MoreOn Thursday, Albany officials and organizations broke ground in their latest effort of battling the housing crisis, using a skinny vacant lot to build a new, small footprint, home.
Read MoreConstruction on Albany’s Sheridan Avenue has begun.
“This is bigger than the house,” said Albany County Land Bank Corporation Adam Zaranko during a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday. “It’s essentially going to be a home that a family can own for the first time.”
Read MoreThe contract to build half of the homes promised by Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon to secure Legislator Charles Garland’s vote for a proposed aquarium has been awarded.
Read MoreFor at least three days in July, more than 200 Syracuse-area teenagers were provided a safe haven of hope and an opportunity for positivity on the city’s South Side basketball courts.
Read MoreGather, Garden & Grow is made possible with the support of sponsors including Tri-Main Development, Rise & Run Solutions, LaBella Associates, Danahy Real Estate, PUSH Buffalo, Home HeadQuarters, UB Office of Government and Community Relations, Gardens Buffalo Niagara, Grassroots Gardens of WNY, Wegmans, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Explore Buffalo, and Hansa Workspace.
Read MoreNancy Kern Eaton has been president of the United Way of Central New York since 2017. The United Way funds the programs that tackle the community’s most complex issues and our neighbors’ most pressing needs — for food, shelter, job training, literacy, early childhood learning, financial skills development, and the list goes on.
Read MoreOver half of Buffalo’s tenants spend 30% or more of their income on rent. By U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development standards, that means the majority of Buffalo’s tenants are “housing cost burdened.”
Read More"Photographs are gone, memories are gone, appliances that they need every day. Their livelihood is just washed away. And it's scary,” said Katie Walpole, director of program strategy of Home Headquarters, Inc.
Read MoreHome HeadQuarters, a nonprofit housing agency, built the new home with state funding aimed at driving higher efficiency in New York's housing
Read MoreSyracuse has relatively cheap home prices, but that doesn’t make it easier to provide quality affordable housing. In some ways, it makes it harder, according to a new study to be released today by City Hall.
Read MoreBill Sweeney was promoted to vice president, member advocacy. In his new role, Sweeney integrates merged entities into CFCU and ensures a successful integration to achieve strategic rationale, value drivers and synergies.
Read MoreThe Micron community-engagement committee has the task of supporting the company’s community-investment strategy.
Read MoreNew York lawmakers this week approved legislation banning gas furnaces and stoves in newly constructed building three years from now. That’s a historic step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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