Lehigh Valley Church-Related Housing
- Greater Shiloh Church – Easton
- New affordable housing complex ‘Shiloh Commons’ in the works on Canal Street in Easton (WFMZ: Apr. 20, 2022)
- Shiloh Manor, completed July 1993 (58 units)
- Nehemiah House – Christian transitional housing – male drug & alcohol recovery
- Shiloh Restoration Center – for people with mental health issues who have been in prison
- St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church planning to allocate church land for affordable housing
- The Lehigh Conference of Churches – Lazarus House
- Ripple Church – Ripple Community, Inc.
Lehigh Valley – Affordable Housing
- Edged Out is a series of stories by Sara Satullo into the complexities of Southside Bethlehem development that culminated with a community forum. The series was produced as a project of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 National Fellowship. Sara Satullo is now Deputy Director of Community Development for the City of Bethlehem.
- Introducing Edged Out: Will we recognize South Bethlehem after a real estate boom and pandemic? (January 25, 2022; LVL)
- Part 1 – The fight for the heart of a South Bethlehem community
(January 25, 2022; LVL) - Follow-up to Part 1 – Deal gives displaced South Bethlehem residents, businesses more time
(January 26, 2022; LVL) - Part 2 – Lehigh’s growth exposes a hard reality about South Bethlehem’s real estate market
(February 1, 2022 LVL)
- Part 3 – A blueprint for coexistence
(February 3, 2023; LVL) - Part 4 – South Bethlehem is a collage of cultures. Residents wonder if that can continue
(February 10, 2023; LVL) - Part 5 – The fallout when you’re Edged Out
(February 17, 2022; LVL) - Bethlehem needs a permanent homeless shelter. The city’s studying how it could happen.
(LehighValleyLive: March 2, 2022) - Edged Out Community Forum Bethlehem Southsiders show ‘striking’ love of community, optimism about future, forum report says. (March 10, 2022; LVL)
- In South Bethlehem, a struggle between housing need and housing costs
WLVR interview with Sara Satullo (February 9, 2022; 5 min.)
Housing Policy
- SB-376 (Senator Hughes) Creation of a Housing Council (Urban Affairs and Housing Committee)