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OCHA is Transforming Public Housing to Meet the Needs of Their Oldest Low-Income Residents
Through thoughtful, targeted, and health-focused redevelopment, the Oklahoma City Housing Authority (OCHA) is helping low-income Oklahoma City seniors to thrive. In new communities around Oklahoma City,...
A new report from the National Leased Housing Association, entitled “Impacts of COVID-19 on Low- and Moderate- Income Housing Providers,” is based on results from a recent survey that NLHA sent to its members, which CLPHA also shared with our membership. The survey...
From the Afterschool Alliance:
We need your help to continue to tell the story of the ways in which COVID-19 is impacting your program and the kids and families you serve. By taking Afterschool Alliance’s short survey, you are lifting up challenges programs face as the pandemic...
Discussions about the latest Coronavirus relief package between House Leadership and the White House are at an impasse. The House passed a scaled-back version of the HEROES Act costing $2.2 trillion. The White House has offered a $1.5 trillion package. Both sides remain far apart....
Non-Filers Must Apply by October 15, 2020
Time is running out for many eligible low-income Americans to receive their CARES Act Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) this year! The deadline to for individuals who did not file taxes in 2018 or 2019 to apply for their EIPs...
From the Toledo Blade:
As Toledo Public Schools prepares to reopen its doors to students, community agencies and district officials have teamed up to open community learning centers that will help combat issues associated with virtual learning and a lack of resources as a result of the pandemic....
From the Toledo Blade:
The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority has extended its Home to Stay program, which provides additional assistance to financially vulnerable residents, for another year in hopes of keeping people housed while the coronavirus pandemic continues and cold months lie ahead....
From DCist:
Carl Goggins feels like he can’t be careful enough when it comes to the coronavirus. Apart from the danger the virus poses to him as a 67-year-old, he worries what would happen if he fell ill.
“I live by myself,” said Goggins. “Ain’t nobody gonna come to the door.”
So when a...
From the Housing Authority of the City of Goldsboro, NC's website:
In Crystal Steadman's community of West Haven, you can already see several recently-installed, high speed wireless antennas. "This will be an amazing benefit! With having four children learning in the home,[...]this will...
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
A HomeTowne Studios extended-stay hotel off North Beach Street and Loop 820 is likely to be the future home for Fort Worth residents facing homelessness who are at particularly high risk of COVID-19.
Fort Worth Housing Solutions, the city’s housing authority,...