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From the Urban Institute:
Altgeld Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development, is an isolated community on the far south side of the city and is home to nearly 1,500 families. But it doesn’t have a single grocery store.
Within the past year, the only two food outlets in the community—a...
From the Boston Globe:
Rafael Salas, an incoming freshman at Westfield State University, dreams of the day when he can help his family leave public housing.
In middle school, when he began attending a youth development program run through the Cambridge Housing Authority, Salas said he already...
From WBUR Boston Public Radio:
Bill McGonagle, administrator for the Boston Housing Authority, will retire this month after working with the agency for 40 years.
He started there as a janitor in the 1970s and has been the head since 2009, when he was appointed by Mayor Thomas Menino....
A recent Crosswalk Magazine article spotlights the evolution of the Fresno Housing Authority’s (FHA) local education partnerships aimed at improving school and life outcomes for FHA’s youngest residents.
One of FHA’s most impactful collaborations is with the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD)....
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 | 2-3 p.m. ET
Registration is open for the second webinar in the Public & Affordable Housing Research Corporation’s (PAHRC) Housing Impact Report webinar series, “Local Solutions to Increase Affordable Housing: Learning from the Field.” Featuring presenters from...
A new resource from the FrameWorks Institute, Framing Two-Generation Approaches to Supporting Families, offers guidance for explaining two-generation approaches to updating human services systems to make sure that there are equal, simultaneous, and intentional efforts to build the wellbeing of...
In tandem with the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s (CMHA) two-year, $350,000 project to revitalize Woodhill Homes, ideastream, a publicly supported and locally owned multimedia news source in Northeast Ohio, is producing a series of stories about the community and its residents.
In the...
Register Now for CLPHA’s 2019 CIO Convening
Washington, D.C. | October 24-25, 2019
Technology is playing an ever-expanding role in the operations of housing authorities, with challenges and opportunities impacting every aspect of program operation, from core operating systems to...
Preliminary Agenda Now Available | Dr. Mark Calabria Announced as Keynote Speaker
Washington, D.C. | October 24-25, 2019
Registration is now open for CLPHA's 2019 Fall Membership Meeting! The Fall Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. from 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 24...
On Tuesday, the U.S House of Representatives passed by vote H.R. 1690, the Safe Housing for Families Act of 2019, to protect residents of public housing from carbon monoxide poisoning by authorizing over $300 million over three years to fund the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide...