Montgomery Community Media

The annual Minority Legislative Breakfast took place on Dec. 7. The African American, Asian and Hispanic business communities use this meeting to present their priorities to our elected officials. Top concerns included eliminating the education gap for financially disadvantaged children and emergency temporary housing for families losing their homes to foreclosure. Visit our PEG partner […]

Affordable housing has been in short supply in Montgomery County for a long time. County Council President Roger Berliner, introduced legislation aimed at increasing the number of county owned assets and county projects that could include an affordable housing component. The legislation requires the county to consider affordable housing when improvements are made to county […]

The demand for affordable housing far outweighs the supply here in Montgomery County. One of the non-profit organizations the county works with to fill the void is Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP) County Council member Hans Riemer toured a project completed by Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP) and comments on the many benefits of the county working […]

The City of Rockville will make $2 million in loans and grants to Rockville Housing Enterprises (RHE) so the City housing authority can purchase the Fireside Park Apartments with the goal of maintaining the complex as mixed-income housing, affordable to a range of household income levels. The Mayor and Council decided the issue at their […]