Bringing It Home with KHC

In this special edition, recorded live at the 2025 Kentucky Affordable Housing Conference, we explore collaborative strategies to accelerate housing supply across the region. Featuring Tara Johnson-Noem on Northern Kentucky’s “Home for All” initiative, Kristen Baker on the “Housing Our Future” strategy, and Abby Shelton on the Greater Owensboro Area Housing Collaborative, this episode highlights h...

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation launched READI in 2021 with $500 million in state appropriations to coordinate strategic investments to bring talent and economic growth to every region in the Hoosier state. Thanks to public, private, and nonprofit partners, that original investment has been leveraged to more than $12.6 billion for Indiana communities. Another $500 will be allocated as...

The Supportive Housing Institute is the flagship training series of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). It is a comprehensive training for supportive housing development teams — a developer, a manager, and a supportive service provider — that wish to develop a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project. In this episode, the final installment of our series on PSH, we speak to Julie Wische...

The Supportive Housing Institute is the flagship training series of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). It is a comprehensive training for supportive housing development teams, which include a developer, a manager, and a supportive service provider. In this episode, the second in our Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) series, we speak to Ra'Shann Martin, executive director of the St. Joh...

The Supportive Housing Institute is the flagship training series of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). It is a comprehensive training for supportive housing development teams, which include a developer, a manager, and a supportive service provider. They learn about capital financing, operating financing, supportive services dollars, best practices, fair housing, and much more. At the en...

In June 2024, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce released a report on the state of workforce housing in the Commonwealth. In essence, the report said, as the state continues to attract new businesses, housing the workforce will become a challenge. The housing shortage may, in fact, deter business development. In this episode, we speak with Charles Aull, executive director for the Center for Policy a...

Since 2003, the Metropolitan Housing Coalition (MHC) has released an annual report on the housing situation in Louisville/Jefferson County. This year's edition focuses on land use and zoning. In this episode, we speak with Tony Curtis, executive director of the MHC, and two of the report's authors: Darrin Wilson, associate professor of Public Administration, and Janet Harrah, senior director of th...

Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are nonprofit organizations created to give residents control over land use and development in their communities. In this episode, we visit with Kevin Dunlap, president and chief executive officer of Rebound, Inc., who helped to secure funding for two CLTs, and Victor Williams, lead organizer of the Berrytown Community Land Trust, to discuss the genesis of three newly...

In 1974, Congress passed the National Mobile home Construction and Safety Standards Act, which created the so-called HUD Code regulation. Since then, there have been no more "mobile" homes. There are, however, manufactured homes, or homes built indoors in climate-controlled manufacturing environments in a streamlined process that has been refined for four decades. They are built in single or multi...

Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) awards the special designation of Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) to select nonprofit housing agencies that have an existing partnership with KHC and a proven record of producing HOME-funded affordable housing projects in their service areas. Essentially, a CHDO is a nonprofit, community-based service organization that has significant capacity t...

The staff at Prost Mortgage Group has amassed nearly four decades of experience helping families buy homes with FHA, VA, rural housing, and other loans. Ken Prost, the firm's principal mortgage advocate, has been a regular at the KHC Top Producer Awards, taking home the Top Lender and Top MCC Lender in 2023. For this episode, we visited the Prost Mortgage Group office to speak with Ken Prost, Brac...

Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) administers two programs for the Commonwealth designed to keep Kentuckians housed. The Eviction Diversion Program (EDP) helps eligible renters with an active eviction case avoid homelessness by providing back rent or access to alternative housing. The Homeowner Assistance Fund (HOAF) helps eligible homeowners avoid homelessness by providing assistance for up to s...

Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) serves Kentucky homebuyers with a variety of loan products, down payment assistance, closing cost grants, excellent customer service, and more. In this episode, we speak with two veteran real estate professionals who have worked with these and other KHC products: Cheryl Johnson from eXp Realty and Marcia Duncan from Homepage Realty. We discuss the challenges and...

For the past two years, KHC and the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness (WVCEH) have hosted an annual summit on preventing and ending rural homelessness. The Summit is a unique and collaborative training week for providers in the KY and WV Balance of State Continuums of Care, providing members with the opportunity to network among peers, ask questions of the experts, explore and refine lea...

Recovery Kentucky was created to help Kentuckians recover from substance abuse, which often leads to chronic homelessness. There are 13 Recovery Kentucky centers across the Commonwealth. They are in Bowling Green, Campbellsville, Erlanger, Florence, Grayson, Harlan, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Owensboro, Paducah, Richmond, Somerset, and Knott County. These centers provide housing and recovery service...

Each year, KHC and partners across the state conduct the K-Count, a census of persons experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires this count to demonstrate the need for resources for housing and services for homeless persons in each community. In this episode, we spoke with Shaye Rabold, Continuum of Care (CoC) plannin...

We began 2023 by discussing the state of affordable housing in Kentucky and the challenges for multifamily developers and loan officers. We later explored the need for fair housing and spoke with KHC staff and partners about how Kentuckians can achieve their dream of homeownership. In July, we offered a multipart look at how the Eastern Kentucky floods impacted the region and how residents and KHC...

In this episode, we have the privilege of speaking with Danielle Amrine, CEO of the Welcome House, and Melissa Hall Sommer, Senior Vice President of the Brighton Center, both of whom are deeply involved in addressing the issue of homelessness in Northern Kentucky. Our conversation aims to shed light on the prevalent issue of homelessness and explore the resources currently available to support tho...

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The U.S. Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is the nation's largest residential energy efficiency program, helping low-income families to lower their energy bills. KHC receives funding for WAP through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services' Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). That fun...

In the last three episodes, we looked at the affordable housing situation and recovery in Eastern Kentucky one year after the flooding. In this episode, we turn our attention to the cities. We sit down with Christie McCravy, executive director of the Louisville Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and Rick McQuady, affordable housing manager for Lexington, to discuss funding priorities, quality standard...

The flooding of late July 2022 devastated communities in Eastern Kentucky. In this episode, we look back at the events of those days through the work being done by the teams here at Kentucky Housing Corporation. We speak with David Starck and Anthony Wright from Multifamily Programs about Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, "the largest driver of affordable housing in the country," and Curtis Stauffer...

The flooding of late July 2022 devastated communities in Eastern Kentucky. In this episode, we look back at the events of those days through the eyes of two affordable housing developers: Scott McReynolds, executive director of Housing Development Alliance in Hazard, and Seth Long, executive director of HOMES, Inc. in Letcher County. Since the night of the flood, both organizations have devoted th...

The flooding of late July 2022 devastated communities in Eastern Kentucky. In this episode, we look back at the events of those days through the eyes of two flood survivors: Sherry Mullins, whose home was swept off its foundation by a 30-foot wave, and Adam Stacey, whose home suffered substantial water damage but remained in place. In the year since, both Sherry and Adam received support from Hous...

We want to wish you all a Happy Homeownership Month! We are kicking things off with one of our award-winning lenders, Connie Lancaster from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Connie will be joining us to speak about the state of affordable housing, and the impact and importance of Hometown Lending within her community. This episode also features one of Connie’s clients, Naomi Moore who has an amazing and ins...

We sat down with Heather Akins (Stockton Mortgage), Katelyn Watkins (Ruoff Mortgage), and Kay Smith (KHC) to learn their stories, to find out what homeownership means to them and to see why they found their home in the mortgage lending field.