CHERRY HILL — A four-bedroom house on Extended Beach Island that sold for much more than $700,000. However as the incidence of mobility and other disabilities rises with age, only 1 percent of existing housing units have five crucial universal design and style characteristics (no-step entry, single-floor living, lever-style handles on doors and faucets, wide halls and doorways, and accessible electrical controls) that can allow these with disabilities to live safely at residence.

Jointly released by the National Low Revenue Housing Coalition and the North Carolina Housing Coalition, Housing Spotlight: The Shrinking Supply of Affordable Housing, shows that in North Carolina, there are only 33 rental properties each inexpensive and available for each and every 100 renter households regarded as really low revenue, that is, earning 30% or less of the area median revenue.

Thus, if Marty McFly and Doc Brown pop out of their DeLorean DMC-12 once more in the future, we can share with them the profitable journey that we have undertaken in guaranteeing that the housing sector is a valued, respected and key partner in delivering greater overall health and social care solutions and an integral agent in tackling the public overall health agenda.

I am reasonably effectively educated with a Masters Degree and heaps of coaching courses attended and so on. I have had the opportunity as a consultant in the UK to visit numerous hundreds of organizations and for the duration of my prior positions I have worked for both US and German primarily based companies and had the chance to operate in these nations for many weeks at a time during my career.

The factor that struck me was that when tenants had been asked about their long term housing plans, some 35% of participating tenants intend to stay inside the rental sector and 24% intended to acquire a residence in the future, with the proportion of respondents citing the unaffordability” of housing as the reason for renting privately growing from 69% to 74%.