Affordable housing

Barbara Grimm was evicted from her Pine Lake apartment in Oklahoma City in early October.

When Tynesia Omopariola moved back to Oklahoma after living in Los Angeles for a decade, she thought she was getting such a break in rent from L.A.’s astronomical rates when she found Izzy Apartments in Oklahoma City.

Mayor Monroe Nichols last week toured a recently opened facility for seniors that wants to expand to include housing.

City officials plan to use a mechanism they’ve commonly used for commercial development to build more housing.

Tulsa’s homeless advisor says the past two winter storms point to the need for an emergency shelter in the city.

There are 341 existing or planned cohousing communities in the United States of various styles. Some are built around families with children. But all cohousing communities share common characteristics.

The executive order also aims to utilize $75 million from the third Improve Our Tulsa package.

A program aims to provide “up to $50,000 in down payment assistance” in the hopes of recruiting and retaining more teachers. It has not been fully funded yet.

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday.

"Path to Home" is Tulsa’s latest effort to address the growing number of unhoused people in the city. The plan includes both construction and criminalization.