Streets to Home leaders said a recent 10-person pilot was successful and that stakeholders were able to “accelerate our timeline” to launch the program and get people from the Leonard Street camp housed.
Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, also fell.
The 2025 point-in-time count was the second-highest recorded in Indianapolis over the past 10 years, trailing only the 2021 high of 1,928.
Elderly and disabled residents of subsidized public housing at the Richard G. Lugar Tower Apartment Complex in downtown Indianapolis are embroiled in a multiyear conflict over safety and sanitation issues.
Advocates hope the first phase of the initiative, called Streets to Home, will provide housing and wraparound services to some 300 residents by next year.
Guests who stayed in the city’s temporary winter shelter have spoken against Andrew Merkley’s nomination to head the Office of Public Health and Safety, arguing the shelter was unfit for families.
His New City Development firm’s first major project, announced in 2022, is a $300 million, 125-acre development called Hobbs Station in Plainfield.
The Fishers City Council voted 9-0 to approve the proposed ordinance, which would cap the percentage of single-family rental houses. Meanwhile, Carmel began considering its own plan.
Indiana’s proposed public camping ban, which originated with a Texas-based think tank, has now died twice this legislative session.
Plans for communities proposed by M/I Homes of Indiana called MontClaire and Bending Branch were presented to members of the Noblesville City Council this week.
More than a dozen Senate Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the legislation, which makes camping on public property a Class C misdemeanor.
Language similar to House Bill 1662, which died earlier this legislative session, was amended into a seemingly unrelated bill, raising concerns from Democrats and advocates for the homeless.
Onyx+East, which was spun off in 2016 from Indianapolis-based Milhaus Development LLC, got its footing in downtown Indianapolis, and Lawrence has led the company as it has put a focus on the suburbs.
The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana, which says it lost an estimated $30,000 in federal funding, could soon be represented by a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts.
Chris Pryor, chief advocacy officer for the MIBOR Realtor Association, said organization leadership is concerned that the proposed ordinance would restrict property rights, limit housing options in Fishers and interfere with the free market.
Nickel Row will consist of 35 town houses along the Nickel Plate Trail, south of East 116th Street.
The troubled housing agency’s new chief executive is credited with leading two public housing agencies out of scandal and federal receivership.
As Indiana’s Legislature continues to debate statewide property tax reform, new data show that homeowners have taken on an unfair share of property taxes.
HUD’s entire workforce is projected to drop by about half—from about 8,300 employees to just over 4,000—with deep cuts in field offices nationwide.
The drop in sales comes after the longest stretch of gains since late 2021, which offered some hope that home buyers and sellers were getting used to high mortgage rates.
