Articles About housing

• Elder Stories | Sue Parker, always the good neighbor

  By Reilly DixonJuly 28, 2025

  

  At 84 years old, Yellow Springs resident Sue Parker can recall with pristine clarity who owned what home from years ago, what flowers grew around their porches and what the children playing in the backyards grew up to be.

• Village Council greenlights plans for 139 new apartments

  By Reilly DixonJuly 14, 2025

  

  Windsor Companies plans to demolish the derelict Student Union, and in its place on the 2.16-acre site, build two three-story apartment buildings, with 48 market-rate rental units in each; and in the Kettering building, install 43 rentals for persons 55 and older.

• Windsor to return to Planning Commission with 96-unit apartment proposal

  By Reilly DixonJune 6, 2025

  

  Last month, the developer had requested Planning Commission’s approval for a 128-unit apartment complex; when met with sizable public pushback on the density of the proposal, Windsor went back to the drawing table to come up with a plan for fewer units.

• Home, Inc. set to award $500K home-repair grants

  By YS News StaffJanuary 18, 2025

  

  Most grants will be up to $16,500 for projects starting in February, including accessibility upgrades, health and safety repairs and weatherization.

• Apartments coming to Antioch College

  By Reilly DixonAugust 1, 2024

  

  Last month, Columbus-based real estate developer Windsor Companies purchased the vacant Antioch Student Union for $500,000.

• The value of a soccer field

  By Reilly DixonJuly 11, 2024

  

  If, in the coming months, all the local stakeholders agree that the Morgan Fields are, in fact, the best site to build the future housing development, then where would all the soccer players go?

• Building Community | 25 years of home, for all

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 30, 2023

  

  This year, affordable housing nonprofit YS Home, Inc. reached two major milestones: The first phase of its upcoming 32-unit combined senior rental and all-ages, for-sale townhome development, The Cascades, was fully funded — and the nonprofit celebrated its 25th anniversary.

• Village Council reexamines priorities under new administration

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 9, 2023

  

  At their Tuesday, Sept. 5, regular meeting, Village Council reviewed a list of ongoing projects and discussed which of those projects should be paused temporarily or stopped altogether — as well as which may continue and which can be initiated.

• Village Council considers more local housing options

  By Reilly DixonAugust 30, 2023

  

  Several potential housing projects were brought to the table at the most recent Village Council meeting Monday, Aug. 21.

• Village Council and Yellow Springs Development Corporation talk local economy

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 24, 2023

  

  This is the second article of two, the first of which appeared in the July 7 issue of the News and featured edited excerpts of a discussion by members of Village Council and YSDC at a June 29 joint meeting held in Council chambers.