With eviction filings showing no signs of slowing down with the start of a new year, Indiana Legal Services has continued to help Hoosier tenants with their efforts to seal prior evictions that could prevent them from finding new housing.
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SAVI, a program of The Polis Center, a research unit in the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indianapolis, hopes a new dashboard it’s developed will give people a look at comprehensive statewide eviction data.
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Most school projects are produced for an audience of one: the professor who assigned the work. But Jacob Purcell, a 2L at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, has just published a rental housing report that’s intended for a much wider audience.
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Ten years ago, the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana opened its doors in Indianapolis to help Hoosier tenants and homeowners keep their anchors. The small agency, which covers an area of 24 counties and 2.5 million people, educates, advocates and enforces the laws and regulations that prohibit housing discrimination.
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In orders this week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled that Indiana DHS violated the Fair Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act when it attempted to reclassify several nonprofit recovery homes as commercial structures.
The measure bans camping, sleeping or long-term sheltering on land owned by the state or a unit of local government — and establishes a Class C misdemeanor for violations.
Supporters frame as compassionate approach, while opponents say lack of resources could lead to jail time and fines.
Indiana lawmakers are considering legislation to lower housing costs by removing restrictions from the permitting process. Local governments worry the measure takes decision-making power away.
Beginning next year, mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be able to acquire loans of up to $832,750 on single-family homes in most of the country, the agency said Tuesday.
Hoosier housing advocates—who’ve long held that the state lacks enough affordable, stable and safe dwellings—asked Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to convene a dedicated commission in a Friday letter signed by nearly 700 supporters.
House Republicans also introduced a slew of bills addressing trademark issues such as education, housing and health care.
Signing a land contract for a house carries risks for buyers that they wouldn’t encounter with conventional alternatives.
A new lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a resident at Lugar Tower Apartments demanding that professional security be restored at the facility during daytime hours to protect residents.
A refund may be coming soon to tenants of a pair of Muncie-area real estate companies.
The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has obtained a legal commitment from the Indianapolis Housing Agency to rectify living conditions at a downtown apartment building, the AG’s office announced Aug. 14.
Homeownership by out-of-state investors is becoming more prevalent in the Indianapolis area and Indiana has become a top state for new single-family “build-to-rent” communities, according to a report released by the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana.
Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration is seeking a stronger approach to force property and business owners to discourage behavior that compromises public safety.
After a lull during the pandemic, eviction filings by landlords have come roaring back, driven by rising rents and a long-running shortage of affordable housing.
The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana has released its newest report, “The State of Fair Housing in Indiana – No Way Home: Tenant Screening Barriers to Housing,” which documents the struggles and barriers for area residents in securing rental housing.
Two 2023 Notre Dame Law School graduates are beginning their post-grad careers as Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest fellows, addressing housing issues and providing expungement relief in Chicago and rural Kentucky.
Indiana’s landlord and tenant settlement program is voluntary, with both sides needing to agree to participate in a conference. That’s resulted in a lot of conference requests, but only a small amount of actually mediated resolutions.
The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana and Rainbow Realty Group Inc. have reached a $750,000 settlement in a dispute over an allegedly predatory rent-to-own program.
Sixty-one percent of Hoosiers in extremely low-income households can’t find an affordable rental, instead spending more than half of their income on housing with little left for food or other necessities, according to a newly released analysis.
A 2-year-old company on the east side of Indianapolis has its sights set on tackling central Indiana’s affordable-housing problem through modular construction.