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A couple of weeks ago I got to see an early morning flag-changing ritual on our cruise ship. As we exited a lock on the Danube near Gottsdorf, just before we crossed the border from Germany to Austria, the captain of our cruise ship took down the German flag and hoisted an Austrian flag. The ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

Six deserving students planning to start or continue their college education in the Fall 2024 semester have each received a $5,000 scholarship from the SITE Advancement Foundation to help further their education. High school graduates, college, and trade school students with a parent employed by one of the 250 SITE Improvement Association member companies are […]

Ronnie Williams recounts the life and legacy of his dad on a birthday milestone many never see.

The retailer said its biggest brand, however, continues to gain market share in what it calls a "strategically important" category.

A landlord is challenging a rental housing license fee charged by a St. Louis County municipality, saying that it is an illegal tax.

The locations will be located inside Schnucks’ Hampton Village store in south St. Louis and its Cross Keys location in Florissant.

The 2024 elections in India are widely regarded as the largest in history, with nearly a billion people eligible to cast a vote. Alongside the sheer human scale, there’s another aspect of the Indian elections that is surprising for its magnitude. This is the use of millions of deepfakes by Indian politicians in an attempt […]

The company's leader attributed the results to "continued web demand challenges and a weaker spending environment."

ARCH by HomeScreen: At-risk Renters’ Connection to Housing (ARCH) launched in March of 2021. ARCH was created through CARES Act funding, granted in 2020, to help low to moderate-income renters whose housing was affected by the economic effects of the pandemic. Over the years, the focus has shifted to help any person currently at risk of homelessness to locate safe and stable housing. This month we celebrate our 100th household approved through the ARCH program. 

Over the past three years, HomeScreen staff at Tower Grove Community Development Corporation (TGCDC) have worked on recruiting and onboarding landlords and nonprofit users to the ARCH platform. We currently work with over 380 nonprofit users from 100 different organizations. The demand from nonprofit organizations needing a resource to find affordable housing has exceeded our expectations. Homelessness is on the rise throughout the St. Louis metro area. As of April 2024, there are over 2,000 homeless individuals in the City of Saint Louis alone, a 31% increase since July of 2021 and a threshold the City had not previously crossed. 

Everyday HomeScreen works to recruit landlords to join ARCH to meet this high demand. We have worked on raising awareness of our program, the scope of the affordable housing crisis, and the benefits of working with our nonprofit partners. Through that ongoing effort, we currently partner with 243 individual landlords with properties in Saint Louis City, Saint Louis County, the Metro East, Jefferson County, and St. Charles County, but are constantly looking for more. 

We have received funding from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to recruit more landlords to join us, by researching and creating additional resources for the landlords participating in the ARCH program. HomeScreen staff participate in the national initiative Built for Zero, the City and the County Continuum of Care (CoCs), the St. Louis Metro Housing Collective. Through these outreach efforts and by collecting feedback from our existing users, we have a few additional services coming to ARCH this year, including a video series for tenant best practices and signed agreements between landlords and nonprofit partners to help resolve issues during the renters’ tenancy. We continue to work towards funding financial incentives for landlords who participate in ARCH, as well as for tenants who complete their tenancies without owing any money for damages or unpaid rent. We are eager to see this program continue to grow and make a real impact for the next 100 people we serve! 

If you have a property you would like to list on the ARCH platform, 

please contact Ella Gross at ella@towergrovecdc.org

Today on TAP: Leading Wall Street and Silicon Valley pooh-bahs believe the tax cuts he’ll give them are a bigger deal than preserving democratic norms.

Blondie's Debbie Harry is an occasional actress, and her latest role is in Catharsis, a 17-minute experimental film that will have its world premiere June 14 at this year's Tribeca…

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The Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR Cup Series returns to the Metro East this weekend, and NASCAR drivers won't be the only ones making noise.

Module Building Systems has created a construction system it says can make building panels offsite, providing “ready-to-assemble” buildings that can be developed more quickly than traditional construction methods. Its CEO chose St. Louis as its home base.

Politico has yet another article today about Joe Biden's weakness among Black voters: Prominent Black officials are warning the Biden campaign that the president’s efforts to keep Black voters firmly and enthusiastically in his electoral coalition aren’t working — and that time is running out to get his message across. The publicly voiced concern from ...continue reading "Biden’s problem with Black voters still doesn’t add up"

The contemporary rock band thanked Belleville and the city clerk's office at the end of the video.

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler and AC/DC are among the honorees at this year's Silver Clef Awards, a charity gala scheduled to take place July 5 in London.The annual ceremony is presented by the charity…

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Missouri is bringing a new center-based autism therapy clinic to Weldon Spring Thursday, commemorating the seventh to open in the state with a ribbon cutting.