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In this month’s HUD Choice Neighborhoods Newsletter Spotlight, learn how Atlanta Housing built relationships with families and partnered with their local school district to offer tailored educational supports to its Choice Neighborhoods residents to help bridge the gap between home and school...
From Atlanta Housing's press release:
Santa kept his promise for more than 650 Atlanta Housing-assisted children who received a Christmas gift from their wish lists at the Santa For a Day three-day gift distribution event, which started Monday and ended today. Atlanta Housing’s partnership with...
A study published in the Journal of Housing Economics uses unique administrative data to estimate voucher lease-up rates and search times for about 85,000 new voucher recipients each year in 433 metropolitan housing authorities from 2015 to 2019. The study found that only 60% of recipients...
A new study from the Urban Institute explores whether providing cash transfers to young men at risk of violence exposure can help improve their health and well-being. The results suggest that cash transfers alone reduce risky behaviors for young men at risk of violence exposure. Cash transfers...
A joint report by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) analyzes the risks that natural hazards pose to federally assisted homes and their communities. The authors used the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA)...
From WAVE 3 News Louisville:
Mayor Craig Greenberg announced Louisville native Elizabeth Strojan will become the Executive Director of the Louisville Metro Housing Authority.
As the Chief of Staff and Senior Vice President of Administration & External Affairs at the New York City Housing...
From. HUD's Office of Policy Development & Research:
In 1940, the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) in Columbus, Ohio, opened Poindexter Village, one of the nation’s first public housing projects. The 414-unit housing project was constructed on the former site of the Blackberry...
From CapRadio:
A former Best Western motel has reopened in downtown Sacramento after being converted into permanent homeless housing, offering nearly 100 residents the chance at a fresh start.
Sacramento Central Studios at H and 12th streets is the city’s third motel-conversion project...
From The Denverite:
The Denver Housing Authority is looking into new ways to increase the city’s housing stock. Its new apartment complex takes advantage of one option that’s been on the minds of Denverites: office-space conversions.
DHA announced last week that they renovated a former medical...