Nonprofit group shifts strategies to provide affordable housing

The richer Annapolis becomes, the more middle-class home ownership in the city plummets, a local affordable-housing advocate said.

And now local government and nonprofit housing officials are trying to adapt with versatile housing-assistance strategies. Local nonprofit group Homes for America is shifting its resources to help moderate-income, working residents.

Homes for America, an Annapolis-based affordable-housing provider, is rolling out its new Homeownership Assistance Program that allows potential homebuyers the freedom to scan the local housing market for the home of their choosing instead of waiting for a local...