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A new study from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley aims to quantify the costs of operating permanent supportive housing (PSH) and the implications of insufficient funding. The authors worked with a collaborative of seven affordable housing developers in the Bay Area and...
From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release:
The new construction of more than 300 affordable rental apartments at the former site of the Sheriff’s Crime Lab will provide homes for seniors, families and individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities upon completion of three...
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that housing instability and homelessness have disastrous effects on our national economic and public health. Public housing authorities (PHAs) are our nation’s most effective...
A new paper published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work discusses service coordination efforts in HUD-assisted housing during the pandemic. Researchers at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies conducted two surveys of service coordinators who worked with older residents of HUD...
From the Los Angeles Community Development Authority's press release:
The Los Angeles County Development Authority is excited to announce the launch of the Senior Grant Program which provides grants to help low-income seniors to remain in their homes and age in place.
The Senior Grant Program...
From Rockland/Westchester Journal News:
Sixty new apartments planned for Mulberry Street will feature high efficiency heating and insulation to meet the greener, "Passive House" standard. They will be served by a generator to keep the power running even through brutal storms.
Each unit will...
From News 12 The Bronx:
The City of Yonkers broke ground Wednesday on an affordable housing project for seniors.
Future residents of the 60-unit building could see their monthly utility bills go from several hundred dollars down to just $30.
The city Housing Authority says one benefit that's...
From the Vancouver Housing Authority:
Vancouver Housing Authority recently opened a new housing complex called Miles Terrace for low-income seniors age 55 and older. The four-story, 69-unit building located in downtown Vancouver, Wash., features studio, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments.
“With...
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority's press release:
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) announced today its plan to begin development of McKinley Manor, a $13.7 million, 44-unit affordable housing community that will exclusively serve low-income elderly...
From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release:
More than 70 seniors experiencing homelessness in the City of San Diego will have permanent rental homes of their own along with supportive services upon the completion of a new development in collaboration with the San Diego Housing...