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12.2.21 Members Making News
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...
11.17.21 Members Making News
From ABC 7 News Washington, D.C.: On Veterans Day eve, dozens of formerly homeless vets in Prince George’s County have new homes. They’ve qualified for vet-specific housing vouchers and have been paired with landlords and given keys during a special event in College Park. ... "We ended up...
11.17.21 Members Making News
From the Brooklyn Reader: A new 12-story 100% affordable housing development will bring 179 permanently affordable apartments to extremely low and low-income families in Brownsville. The Van Dyke III building, part of New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) 23 building Van Dyke housing complex...
10.6.21 CLPHA Member Update
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...
10.5.21 Members Making News
From the Weingart Center's press release: Construction of a 278-unit, 19-story permanent supportive housing high-rise was celebrated at a ceremony today at 555 S. Crocker Street in the Skid Row district of downtown Los Angeles. Replacing a surface parking lot on .41 acres near Sixth and San Pedro...
10.5.21 Members Making News
From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release: After intermittent homelessness in the past, including two years at a women’s shelter program in San Diego, Melanie moved into a permanent affordable home of her own this month at Trinity Place, developed in collaboration with the San Diego...
9.21.21 Members Making News
From KGW8: A Vancouver Howard Johnson hotel is being turned into a homeless shelter. The bulk of the construction work began last month, to turn the shuttered hotel into a homeless shelter near the Vancouver mall. “This is going to be great for the community,” said Vancouver Housing...
9.7.21 Members Making News
From the Kitsap Sun: The first time Monica Bernhard walked into one of Pendleton Place’s unfinished apartments, she started crying.  “They have room numbers already written above them, and I just try to imagine who that person's going to be, that we're bringing in from the outside and...
7.28.21 Report
In a recent report, Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle with Housing First, the Urban Institute presents its findings after five years (2016 to 2020) of evaluating the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Denver SIB). The report on a randomized controlled trial...
7.28.21 Members Making News
From The News Tribune: Shkelqim Kelmendi believes that no apartment should sit vacant when there are people living without a home. As the executive director of nonprofit Housing Connector, Kelmendi brings together property owners and case managers for people experiencing homelessness to...

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