VPM News Focal Point
VPM News Focal Point is a television series that frames statewide news through a lens of in-depth reporting on culture, politics, business, health, the environment, race, science and the arts.
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Screen capture/VPM News Focal PointAffordable housing developers in Virginia are building homes using a CLT approach in localities and now through the Virginia Statewide Community Land Trust -
Screen capture/VPM News Focal PointBetween 1915 and 1970, approximately 6 million African Americans left their homes in the Southern United States and went in search of opportunity. Most went to cities and towns in the North, changing the complexion and culture of the places they left behind and shaping the new places they would call home. Historian Lauranett Lee sheds light on this and related migration patterns of Southern Black people.
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Screen capture/VPM News Focal PointWith the need for affordable housing growing and public dollars to build or improve not meeting demand, private partners and longtime stakeholders find their way to the planning table. What results is better housing, new friendships and possibly, a blueprint for other cities
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Screen capture/VPM News Focal PointPopulation is a key factor in determining the health of a region. Of the nine metro areas in Virginia the Richmond metro is among the state’s fastest growing over the last three years.
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