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The Local History Index provides only a citation to the article or item. Please visit the Elkhart Public Library’s downtown location at 300 S. Second St. to access the Elkhart Truth newspapers and other collections referenced in this index.

Showing of 1274 results for Housing.

ID	102668
Title of Article	Habitat celebrates two home closings in one week
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Carmen Calderon; Caitlin Drake
Date	Nov 22, 2025
Page	A3
Subjects	Habitat for Humanity, Elkhart County, Housing

ID	102549
Title of Article	Goshen developers propose 32-unit apartment
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Apartment complex
Date	Oct 25, 2025
Subjects	Goshen Redevelopment Commission, Housing

ID	102526
Title of Article	Middlebury townhome plan to be resubmitted after changes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	proposed townhomes
Date	Oct 22, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Housing, Construction

ID	102468
Title of Article	Plan for townhomes too much for some
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Artist rendering; Townhomes
Date	Oct 08, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Middlebury, IN, Housing

ID	102389
Title of Article	Rental inspection program gets underway
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Neal Kolber
Date	Sep 24, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Rental Housing, City of Elkhart

ID	102153
Title of Article	Developer to turn empty office into apartments
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	drawing of apartment
Date	Aug 22, 2025
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Housing, Goshen

ID	102123
Title of Article	Career Center secures land for affordable housing
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Cole Murphy; Ana Cometa; Carlos Ontiveros; Sedrick McNeely
Date	Aug 16, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Elkhart Area Career Center (EACC), Affordable Housing

ID	102036
Title of Article	New apartments to bring more housing
Notes	The Flats at Pinecreek Apartments; 515 East Apartments
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Officials break ground
Date	Jul 12, 2025
Page	A1
Subjects	construction, Affordable Housing, Housing

ID	101939
Title of Article	Manufactured-housing plants tweak brands
Notes	Fairmont Cavco now operating as Cavco-Nappanee.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Cavco Industries manufactured-housing facility in Goshen; kitchen built in Nappanee; Chad Marchand
Date	Jun 07, 2025
Page	B1
Subjects	Fairmont Homes, Affordable Housing, Housing, Commodore Homes

ID	101922
Title of Article	City council backs plan for new housing
Notes	Boulder Run Economic Development Area
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Conway Hershberger
Date	Jun 04, 2025
Page	A1
Subjects	City of Elkhart, Housing, Housing Survey, Housing Market

ID	101895
Title of Article	Goshen awards $250K to service organizations
Notes	Goshen Board of Works; First Light Mission; Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County; DGI facade program; Goshen Historical Society; Elkhart Symphony Association; First in Chaplain Crisis Response Team; South Bend-Elkhart Regional Partnership; Mayor Gina Leichty; Community Relations Commission; Goshen City Council
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Gina Leichty
Date	May 24, 2025
Page	A5
Subjects	City of Goshen, Goshen Chamber of Commerce, First Fridays (Goshen), Warsaw Housing Authority

ID	101880
Title of Article	Much-need housing
Notes	515 East Apartments; RealAmerica Companies, LLC.; Housing
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Brian Shelbourne, Mike Surak, Rod Roberson, Blaine DeCamp, Emily Castro break ground; artist’s rendering of 515 East Apartments; Rod Roberson speaks
Date	May 22, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	City of Elkhart, Affordable Housing, Roberson, Rod (mayor)

ID	101822
Title of Article	Rental inspection program passes
Notes	Rental Inspection Program passed.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Jared Elam; Conrad Hochstetler; Dave Blessing; Aaron Mishler
Date	May 07, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Hines, Tonda, Rental Housing, Roberson, Rod (mayor)

ID	101804
Title of Article	Landlords fume
Notes	Pastor Lori King, Guidance Ministries. Rental inspection program.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Demarco Robinson; Jesus Barcena; Dave Blessing
Date	Apr 30, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Landlords, Rental Housing, Public Health & Safety Committee, Elkhart City Council

ID	101603
Title of Article	Habitat starts work on 15-unit neighborhood
Notes	Homer Ave, Elkhart
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	sign at build site; Greg Conrad, Jason Lippert, Rod Roberson, Lippert executive team at groundbreaking
Date	Apr 17, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Habitat for Humanity, City of Elkhart, Lippert Components Inc., Affordable Housing

ID	101598
Title of Article	Commission mulls rental inspection program
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Tim Vistine speaks; David Henke
Date	Apr 16, 2025
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Public Health & Safety Committee, Elkhart City Council, Rental Housing Registration, Landlords

ID	101471
Title of Article	Goshen RDC votes to extend lives of TIF additions
Notes	Southeast Economic Development Area; Southeast Housing TIF
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	proposed additions to the River Race/U.S. 33 tax increment financing district
Date	Apr 10, 2025
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Goshen Redevelopment Commission, Taxation, River Race TIF District, Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) Districts

ID	101472
Title of Article	City to restore rental inspection program
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	rental property in 700 block of Bower Street; Alex Otto
Date	Apr 10, 2025
Page	A1
Subjects	Rental Housing, Rental Housing Registration, Landlords, Public Health Issues

ID	101035
Title of Article	Projects aim to transform city
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Construction workers starting to remove part of the road on Benham Avenue underpass; 515 East project illustration; Woodland Crossing project illustration
Date	Mar 12, 2025
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Aspire Elkhart, Affordable Housing, City of Elkhart, Infrastructure

ID	100989
Title of Article	More housing planned for most vulnerable
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Jeremy Stutsman
Date	Mar 08, 2025
Page	A1
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Bashor Children’s Home, Housing

ID	100720
Title of Article	Lacasa, Oaklawn selected for supportive housing initiative
Notes	330 Lakeview Drive, Goshen; Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH); 17th Indiana Supportive Housing Institute
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	proposed Lakeview Apartments
Date	Feb 18, 2025
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, Homelessness

ID	100046
Title of Article	Lacasa plans 8-unit apartment build on East Lincoln
Notes	700 block of East Lincoln Avenue, Goshen
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	example of the kind of eight-unit apartment building
Date	Dec 18, 2024
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Lincoln Avenue, Goshen, Housing, Goshen Common Council

ID	99200
Title of Article	‘I love underdog stories’
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Representatives from Lacasa, DJ Construction, Oaklawn, Bashor Children’s Home, and the Indiana Housing & Community Development Association; artist’s rendering of building
Date	Nov 09, 2024
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Goshen, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority

ID	98997
Title of Article	On the right path
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Tonya Detweiler; City, county and state leaders join developer Tonya Detweiler; Tonya Detweiler gives the thumbs-up
Date	Oct 18, 2024
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Cherry Creek, Goshen Plan Commission, Housing, Development, Residential

ID	98932
Title of Article	Work to begin on 1,200-unit housing project
Notes	see CORRECTION 10/12/2024 A2
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	plans for Cherry Creek housing project
Date	Oct 10, 2024
Page	A1
Subjects	Housing, Goshen Redevelopment Commission, Goshen Common Council, Cherry Creek

ID	98641
Title of Article	Part of the housing solution
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Teresa Payne, Julia Gordon announcing; Man working on manufactured house
Date	Sep 13, 2024
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Manufactured Housing Industry, Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Housing Market, Modular Housing Industry

ID	98185
Title of Article	Ten-lot housing development to be built by Habitat
Notes	Homer Avenue, Elkhart
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	3115 Homer Ave.
Date	Aug 10, 2024
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Habitat for Humanity, Affordable Housing

ID	97211
Title of Article	Habitat for Humanity and Winnebago team up on home
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	A start-of-construction ceremony at 1114 Middlebury St.
Date	Jul 19, 2024
Page	A5
Subjects	Habitat for Humanity, Winnebago Industries, Housing

ID	97135
Title of Article	Back on track
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Sign advertisement of luxury condominiums in the 500 block of River Race Drive
Date	Jul 13, 2024
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Goshen Redevelopment Commission, Housing, Goshen

ID	97102
Title of Article	Analysis finds Indiana’s housing affordability gap is growing
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	Jul 06, 2024
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Housing, Indiana

ID	97098
Title of Article	Council OKs annexation of small housing site north of Greenleaf
Notes	Elkhart Truth
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	Jul 03, 2024
Page	A1
Subjects	Elkhart, Housing

ID	97095
Title of Article	Goshen gets $11M state loan for Cherry Creek
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Proposed signage for Cherry Creek
Date	Jul 02, 2024
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Goshen, Housing, Indiana Finance Authority, Cherry Creek

ID	96724
Title of Article	Lacasa to build housing for youth exiting foster care
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	May 01, 2024
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Bashor Children’s Home, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, Indiana Department of Child Services

ID	96691
Title of Article	Lacasa cuts ribbon on Madison Street renovation
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Savanna Smallwood, Gina Leichty, Nick Keiffer, Jeremy Stutsman at 409 E. Madison St. Goshen
Date	Apr 26, 2024
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Community Development Block Grants, Housing, Renovation

ID	96220
Title of Article	Land rezoned for 240-unit complex on Cassopolis
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	Apr 03, 2024
Page	A1
Subjects	Elkhart Common Council, Housing, Ordinances, Zoning, Cassopolis Street

ID	95574
Title of Article	Goshen appropriates $250K for Oaklawn housing
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	Feb 28, 2024
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Goshen Common Council, Housing

ID	95555
Title of Article	Area again makes top Emerging Housing Markets list
Notes	Top 20 Emerging Housing Markets
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	Feb 24, 2024
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Housing Market, Elkhart, IN, Goshen

ID	95058
Title of Article	Applications open for housing revolving fund
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Doug Miller
Date	Jan 19, 2024
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Indiana Finance Authority, Development, Residential, Funding, Residential Housing Infrastructure Assistance Program

ID	94982
Title of Article	City backs $1M federal grant to address lead paint
Notes	Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	Jan 10, 2024
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Grants, Lead Poisoning

ID	94756
Title of Article	Elkhart County part of regional housing study in 2024
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	500 Block River Race Drive Goshen
Date	Dec 27, 2023
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG), Housing, Elkhart County

ID	94540
Title of Article	Tax credits help deliver low-income housing
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Apartment rendering 1701 Sterling Ave; Apartment rendering 515 East St
Date	Dec 16, 2023
Page	A1
Subjects	Affordable Housing, Development, Community, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority

ID	93602
Title of Article	Report: Good place to buy a home
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Thor employees assemble wall panels
Date	Oct 26, 2023
Page	A1
Subjects	Housing Market, Elkhart, IN, City of Goshen

ID	92935
Title of Article	Housing, retail, health, job training
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Woodland Crossing shopping center; Woodland Crossing sign
Date	Sep 28, 2023
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Woodland Crossing, Renovation

ID	92917
Title of Article	Embattled landlord to auction some troubled homes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Brad Hooley
Date	Sep 27, 2023
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Rental Housing, Demolition, Auctions

ID	92716
Title of Article	Mayor: Moves draw $132M in new investment to city
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Mayor Rod Roberson
Date	Sep 15, 2023
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	City of Elkhart, Housing, Concord Mall, Roberson, Rod (mayor)

ID	91925
Title of Article	C.G. Conn musical instrument factory to be demolished
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	The former C.G. Conn band instruments factory on East Beardsley Avenue in Elkhart is set to be demolished. The property is slated to be redeveloped into residential space.
Date	Aug 19, 2023
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Conn, C.G., Factory, Building Demolitions, Beardsley Avenue, Housing

ID	91684
Title of Article	Residents express displeasure with proposed camping ban
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Homeless person sleeping on a bench
Date	Aug 11, 2023
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Homelessness, Elkhart City Council, Housing, Guidance Ministries

ID	91265
Title of Article	Lacasa to build 8-unit apartment near downtown
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Celebrating a groundbreaking Tuesday are Brad Hunsberger, Lacasa vice president of real estate development, and Jeremy Stutsman, president.
Date	Aug 02, 2023
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	LaCasa Inc., Elkhart County Redevelopment Commission, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, Housing

ID	90906
Title of Article	Massive housing project comes into focus
Notes	Cherry Creek LLC
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Pictured is a housing, retail and parking master plan for Cherry Creek.
Date	Jul 20, 2023
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) Districts, Housing, Cherry Creek

ID	90778
Title of Article	Goshen quiet zone must be ready for apartment project
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Train in residential area
Date	Jul 19, 2023
Page	A1, A5
Subjects	Housing, Zoning, Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) Districts