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Panel gets an update on Hub City Village

Written October 12th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 4 responses.

Construction of Hub City Village continues apace at 241 Waverly Drive S.E., and people hoping to live there there may be interested in what the Albany Community Development Commission was told last month.

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Hub City Village: When it aims to be done

Written June 16th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 6 responses.

Now that construction on Hub City Village has started, when will this planned unit development of 27 small houses in Albany be ready for otherwise homeless people to move in?

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Hub City Village plans to break ground

Written June 3rd, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 31 responses.

It was four years ago, in July 2019, that I first reported on Albany’s Creating Housing Coalition and its hopes of building a community of tiny houses for people who have no place else to live. Now the group is about to start building the place.

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Hub City Village’s next step: Cutting trees

Written March 20th, 2023 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 9 responses.

Before it can build its planned Hub City Village of tiny houses, the Creating Housing Coalition will have to clear the site of trees.

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Tough choice: Who gets part of $1 million?

Written September 8th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 8 responses.

Maybe it wasn’t a favor for the legislature to give Albany $1 million to do something about affordable housing or homelessness. Now the city council has to decide who gets some of the money, and it’s not an easy choice.

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Group finds a site for its tiny-house village

Written July 11th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 19 responses.

Creating Housing Coalition has let people know where it intends to build Hub City Village, its proposed community of about two dozen tiny houses for people who otherwise would likely be homeless.

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Homeless and the quest for Hub City Village

Written January 28th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 17 responses.

As happens every few months, there was talk about the homeless before the Albany City Council this week. Someone from the public, a board member of Creating Housing Coalition, brought it up.

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