Finding a home with the Hoge family
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Irving Peddrew III was accepted into Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1953, but it was being welcomed into a Blacksburg couple’s house on East Clay Street that helped him feel at home.
Search Results for housing
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Governor announces $4M to expand legal aid services for Virginians facing eviction
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Gov. Ralph Northam today announced $4 million in funding for the Legal Services Corporation of Virginia, which will support 20 Legal Aid attorneys in providing services to Virginia tenants facing eviction for the next two years.
Harrisonburg Rockingham Living Wage Campaign set to mark first anniversary
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The Harrisonburg Rockingham Living Wage Campaign, a project of the Richmond-based Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, continues to work to inspire businesses to pay employees a living wage in order to keep them out of poverty and homelessness.
Climate, energy news roundup: Week of Aug. 29
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Climate Action Alliance of the Valley, a non-profit, grassroots group of volunteers in the Central Shenandoah Valley, produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News to inform legislators and the public.
Live Well Alleghany Highlands publishes community resource guide
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The Live Well Alleghany Highlands coalition’s Knowledge of Resources Sub-Committee has published a Community Resource Guide to help community members find and access the wide variety of social and human resources the community has to offer.
Democracy is not a spectator sport
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With the 2020 presidential election rapidly approaching, Election Stress Disorder or ESD is at the highest levels in all of history.
Herring urges Congress to expand funding for crime victims
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Attorney General Mark Herring has joined a coalition of state and territorial attorneys general urging Congress to adopt key changes to the Victims of Crime Act that provide critical financial support to victims of violent crimes and their families.
AARP awards four Virginia organizations with community grants
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AARP announced four Virginia organizations will receive 2020 Community Challenge grants – part of the largest number of grantees to date with more than $2.4 million awarded among 184 organizations nationwide.
Radical idea: Would moving life underground save the environment?
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It’s certainly true that moving more of our infrastructure, let alone work and live space, underground would relieve some of the pressure that our conventional above-ground development and habitation puts on the environment.
Community meeting to discuss future of Staunton’s West End on Sept. 3
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In an effort to begin developing a strategy for revitalization of Staunton’s West End, a community meeting will be held to gather input from residents, businesses and community partners.
