{"id":125552,"date":"2026-02-27T23:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125552\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:23:43","slug":"infinite-erie-sets-aim-on-alleviating-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125552\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Erie sets aim on alleviating housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Infinite Erie unveiled its five-year plan to address Erie\u2019s housing crisis, which they are calling the \u201chousing accelerator plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The objective of this plan is to provide Erie with more affordable housing options by speeding up the development process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/staffing-shortages-at-nursing-homes-impacting-residents\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Staffing shortages at nursing homes impacting residents;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Staffing shortages at nursing homes impacting residents <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ultimately, their goal is to create 250 housing units by 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWere seeing that more than 46% of residents in Erie are what we call severely cost burdened by their housing situation, meaning that they are spending more than 35% of their income on having a roof over their heads, and at 46%, that\u2019s touching a lot of residents and families in the erie community,\u201d said Kim Thomas, executive director of Infinate Erie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This project will cost around $68 million, which they will get through state grants, government funding and tax credit programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infinite Erie unveiled its five-year plan to address Erie\u2019s housing crisis, which they are calling the \u201chousing accelerator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58736,136,138,137,30806,17044,58737],"class_list":["post-125552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accelerator-plan","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-housing-crisis","tag-housing-units","tag-kim-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}