Housing Roanoke Steers Millions To Nonprofit TAP with Goal of Spurring Affordable Housing Roanoke officials heralded progress with the city's land bank and the creation of a $2 million affordable housing fund.
LGBTQ Roanoke City Nets Highest Score in LGBTQ Equality Index After Years of Failing Grades The city joins six other Virginia localities in scoring 100 on the Municipal Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign.
LGBTQ 'You're There To Help': Meet Roanoke Police Department's First LGBTQ Liaison Roanoke police created the role in part to improve the city's score on a measure indicating how LGBTQ-friendly a locality is.
Policing Roanoke Valley Police Have New Helpers Responding to 911 Calls: Mental Health Therapists The Marcus Alert system, created by the Virginia General Assembly in 2020, went live last month in the Roanoke Valley.
Addiction Drug Recovery Home Moves Into Longtime Roanoke Homeless Shelter That Shuttered Trust House, which focused on veteran homelessness, has become a 26-bed halfway house from Anderson and Associates.
LGBTQ Roanoke's Drag Scene Is Booming, and Performers Are Taking the Show on the Road Drag performances have become increasingly common in Roanoke and beyond, with performances at breweries, coffee shops and hip new restaurants.
Housing Roanoke Started a Land Bank in 2019. It's Just Now Getting Off the Ground. Officials hope a change to the program run by the nonprofit Total Action for Progress will get more abandoned homes restored.
Homelessness Roanoke Valley Homelessness Count Reflects Highest Annual Increase Since 2007 While homelessness has declined in the region since it peaked in 2009, this January’s point-in-time count reflects a 54-percent increase, the sharpest yet.
Housing Roanoke's Public Housing Authority Plans First New Major Development in Decades The city’s housing authority hopes to construct an initial 86-unit complex in Northwest Roanoke.