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Invest Financially
Do you feel blessed? If yes, perhaps you will considering blessing others. Invest in our community of ‘gleanings’ providers who donate smaller monthly donations to sustain our client’s needs for rental subsidies and case management services.
Invest Personally
We can’t build sustainable, safe, and affordable rental housing alone. We need your talents, your gifts, and your strengths for the development of affordable rental housing. Gleanings seeks to change the way affordable housing is built and managed.
Other ways you, our community, can help
“This program makes fundraising easy by donating to local organizations based on the shopping you do every day. Once you link your Card to our (Gleanings Housing, Inc.) organization, all you have to do is shop at Kroger and swipe your Shopper’s Card. ”
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As of February 24th, 2021, Gleanings Housing Incorporated has been considered a 501(c)(3) public charity by the IRS. All gifts, donations, and investments will be tax-deductible from this point forward. All gifts, donations, and investments from August 6th, 2020 through February 23rd, 2021 are retroactively tax-deductible as well.
A Glimpse at the Gleanings Newsletters
Read about the affordable rental housing crisis in Lexington, KY from our Executive Director, Laura Slaughter.
Gleanings Housing purchased 732 Florence Ave vacant lot from the Master Commissioners Sale in November of 2024. The lot is zoned R2 and conveniently located on a public bus route, with Douglass Park less than a mile away. Duane Clup, a retired licensed architect, has completed architectural drawings for the duplex able to be used to obtain building permits. The duplex will feature one one-bedroom unit and one two-bedroom unit, both designed to remain affordable for the city's most economically disadvantaged households.
The gap in our housing supply has definite numbers, both in Kentucky and Lexington. The Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) commissioned Bowen National Research to complete a comprehensive survey of the state’s housing supply. Their survey analysis resulted in housing supply information as of 2024 and a projected estimate of housing supply gap for 2029 to assist housing providers, developers, local leaders, and nonprofit organizations with a better understanding of the state of the housing market. Here are the numbers:
The ‘experts’ are suggesting that the increased cost has come due to a bottlenecking of supply and demand. This would lead to a decrease in cost within the next several months. Other ‘experts’ predict that a small drop will occur, but the price of materials is now shifted to a new level due to aging population, limited natural resources, shifting economies and a plethora of other factors.