More than 50 people gathered at the corner of Garden and Washington streets to celebrate an open house for ReVere Homes, Logansport’s newest multi-family tax credit properties.
Last November, the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) recommended that tax credits be awarded to Indianapolis-based Crestline Development Co. to help fund a project that will add 30 new homes — 15 affordable three-bedroom homes and 15 affordable four-bedroom homes — on scattered sites throughout the community.
Jim Erickson, vice president of Crestline Development, said that he is proud of the project and hopes to leave a positive impact on the city.
“We’re hopeful that this project is a great benefit to the people of Logansport,” said Erickson. “To be able to either fill empty lots or replace homes that were condemned, and then to put up something brand new and well-built, in a design for long-term living, is nothing but a very positive thing.”
The new homes are being built on city-owned lots acquired through the Blight Elimination Program (BEP)

ELWOOD — Farmer Garland Antrim, who grows corn and soybeans in Madison, Howard, Tipton and Grant counties, knows the value of having interns working for him.
Beyond the labor they provide in the fields, three of his young workers have become permanent employees and bought homes near Elwood.

ANDERSON – The smell of sawdust and freshly mixed cement filled the air Wednesday morning as Anderson residents continued to build a new home in their community.
Volunteers with the Habitat for Humanity of Madison County pounded away at the foundation of what will eventually support a new house for a single mother of three at 2804 Fairview St.

The Logansport City Council recently approved the expenditure of up to $475,000 for the remediation of properties in the Blight Elimination Program (BEP) that were not properly razed.
At their meeting Monday evening, council members suspended the rules and unanimously passed an ordinance on second reading authorizing the use of up to $300,000 from the Rainy Day fund and up to $175,000 from the CEDIT fund to remediate properties in the BEP program — a statewide program designed to allow municipalities to demolish blighted properties and offer a variety of end uses for the newly cleared properties, including green space and redevelopment.

LOGANSPORT, Ind. (WLFI) - Last year, a housing master plan funded by the Logansport City Council determined some staggering numbers. The city has a need for a minimum of 250 new housing units and up to as many as 400 in the coming years.
30 new homes will be going on city-owned lots scattered throughout Logansport, and about 20 homes will be built on city-owned land near the intersection of High Street and Yorktown Road.