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About 75 percent of the more than 3 million American adults who spent some part of the last year homeless have no insurance, according to the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Under the radar of the town-hall shouting matches on health reform, advocates for the homeless are pushing to get them on the rolls of the insured.

The secretary of Veterans Affairs vowed Wednesday to "do better" for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and the new GI Bill, he said, is a proven way to serve both veterans and the county.

Advocates for moderate-income housing, "Smart Growth" and transit-oriented development are all heralding a new federal proposal modeled along the lines of the state's HOMEConnecticut program. The so-called Livable Communities Act would offer federal money to communities that encourage affordable housing development clustered near public transportation.

Since 2007, the Wachovia NEXT Awards have provided Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) with financial awards that combine unrestricted grant dollars with unsecured below-market loans. Presented by the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a network of 170 financial intermediaries that have originated more than $19.8 billion in financing in non-conforming urban, rural, and Native communities through 2007, the awards are funded through OFN by the Wachovia Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The program is scheduled to continue through 2011.

In 2008, Mercy Housing received $500,000 from the Citi Foundation to support efforts in Illinois and California, as well as national housing development opportunities and capacity building. Citi Foundation recently awarded Mercy Housing an additional $250,000 grant to continue supporting the creation of healthy communities through affordable housing in 2009. The grant will support Mercy Housing’s efforts in California and Illinois, including $100,000 that will go directly to Mercy Housing Lakefront’s efforts in Chicago and $100,000 that will go directly to Mercy Housing California’s efforts in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

All summer long, first-year graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture have been blogging about their progress building an affordable, accessible owner-renter residence in New Haven. This is the final installment of the Yale Building Project blog, with a look inside at the soon to be finished residency.

From the Carnegies to the Mellons and the Heinzes, the families that made Pittsburgh great in the 19th and 20th centuries invested millions after steel collapsed to try to bring the city back to its former glory, setting it apart from other Rust Belt cities recovering more slowly.

The residents of Little River Bend, a housing complex for the formerly homeless, gathered in a sunlit courtyard on a Wednesday afternoon to share stories of lives wrecked by alcohol, the trauma of war, failed relationships and bad decisions. As they spoke, each story had a common theme: the commitment to the slow, painful process of rebuilding.

Having become a prominent presence in the nation's capital over the last decade, the Pew Charitable Trusts has formally established a signature residency.

The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society’’ and instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities.