(RECAP: The Virginia Housing Development Authority has recently made available a free online renter education course titled “How to be a Successful Renter,” which covers the rights and responsibilities of renting.)
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Cook’s Corner revitalization will include restaurant, brewery in Middlesex County
(RECAP: Cook’s Corner Partners LLC will invest $2 million and make 20 new jobs to locate a new commissary kitchen and brewery in Middlesex County. This new private investment is a component of the larger Middlesex County Cook’s Corner innovative, multi-agency revitalization project. The Cook’s Corner revitalization project will also include the renovation and repurposing of two historic school buildings, the establishment of new community facilities, and the construction of water and sewer infrastructure. In addition, 24 units of affordable, workforce housing will be made by 2020 to help attract and retain skilled workers in the region.)
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Housing Affordability Crisis Spreads to Rural America
(RECAP: Nearly one-fourth of the nation’s most rural counties have seen a sizeable increase this decade in the number of households spending at least half their income on housing, a category the federal government calls “severely cost-burdened.” Norton, Virginia, a town at the heart of Appalachian coal country with a population of 3,936, saw its cost-burdened population soar to 22 percent from 12 percent in Stateline’s analysis, one of the largest increases.)
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