I don't see how building more rental units increases home ownership. Part of Ventura Village's goal is to increase home ownership, and there are some questions as to how the Carriage House Program will accomplish that. It's too important to me to have someone destroy an affordable housing project, so I withdrew. The Grahams still plan to build a carriage house, but without NRP dollars. A Crisis Situation Little Earth of United Tribes is the only urban Indian housing community in the world, said Director Mary Black Elk.
Little Earth is completely full.
The waiting list averages about a year, she said. Rent in the 200-plus community is based on income and contains a very young population. When we have openings, they mostly open up due to somebody moving on to home ownership. But that doesn't happen often enough. His voice rises, wavers and nearly cracks when speaking about housing in Phillips.