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On December 17, HUD announced 26 PHAs are receiving over $1 million in additional funding to provide housing assistance to youth who are aging out of foster care and are homeless or at risk of homelessness through the Foster Youth to Independence (FYI)...
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority's press release:
Harriet’s Hope, a $13 million affordable housing community planned to open on the city’s west side, has received a $1 million federal grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Cincinnati’s Affordable Housing Program...
HUD Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report on its survey of public housing authorities (PHAs) with a HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) program. The HUD OIG review of challenges that participating PHAs face...
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, HUD issued two new PIH notices: PIH Notice 2021-31 Public Housing Operating Subsidy Grant Eligibility Calculations and Processing for Calendar Year (CY) 2022 & PIH Notice 2021-32 Extension of American Rescue Plan Act – Adjustment Funding for Calendar Year...
Last month in Shelterforce, Vancouver Housing Authority (VHA) Communications Director Patty Hastings penned an article sharing lessons that VHA has learned from doubling their number of supportive. housing units over the years. Hastings discusses examples of VHA properties like...
From Affordable Housing Finance:
"After 14 months of construction, a 70-unit apartment community is about to welcome military veterans, including those transitioning from homelessness, in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. The development is one of the first private veterans’ communities in the U.S. to...
From the San Jose Spotlight:
Flags fly at half-mast each Nov. 11 to honor Veterans Day across the country. In Silicon Valley, fewer veterans will look at those flags while living on the streets.
All the Way Home, a campaign launched in 2015 to help end the homeless veterans crisis, has housed 2,...
Officials dedicate Chuck Austin Place veterans housing facility in Yakima (Yakima Housing Authority)
From the Yakima Herald:
The 246th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps was the perfect day to honor Chuck Austin and the veterans housing facility that bears his name in Yakima.
More than 100 veterans, elected officials and representatives of companies that built the Chuck Austin Place Veteran...
From Forbes:
From the beginning, this country showed concern for the housing of its veterans: the first national veterans' home in the United States was the United States Naval Home, approved in 1811, but not opened until 1834 in the Philadelphia Naval Yard. Things picked up after the Civil...
On September 27, 2021, HUD released a Federal Register notice updating HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) guidance from March 2012. This notice also includes new waivers and program flexibilities.
New Waivers and Program Flexibilities...