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From KIMA-TV:
Representative Dan Newhouse is in Yakima visiting the new veterans housing project and talking to local leaders about homelessness in the county.
Newhouse toured the former US Marine Corpse Armory building on Tahoma Avenue that will be remodeled and have around 41 units to house...
From Curbed Seattle:
Back in June, Seattle officially launched the “ORCA Opportunity” program with free bus passes for Seattle public high schoolers and some Seattle Colleges students. This year, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced in her State of the City address Tuesday, the...
Housing Commission Receives Award for Housing First San Diego Program (San Diego Housing Commission)
From the Times of San Diego:
The housing commission is the recipient of the Nan McKay and Associates’ 2018 Development Award for its Housing First program, which helps San Diego’s homeless residents find permanent housing. The program has created nearly 6,000 housing opportunities...
From the Ventura County Star:
Housing costs are often a family’s largest expense, eating up a higher percentage of income the less a family earns. With that in mind, a program designed to let Ventura residents receiving rental subsidies keep more as their income increases has received more than $...
From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh’s Family Self Sufficiency Program was one of several funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which awarded Pittsburgh $350,339 this year.
It’s a renewal grant, but there are no guarantees...
From Affordable Housing Finance:
Maria Torres-Springer, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
After leading the nation’s largest municipal housing development agency, Maria Torres-Springer will step into the new role of vice president of U.S. programs at the Ford...
From the The Miami Times:
Renovations at one of the buildings at Three Round Tower elderly housing complex have been completed and Miami-Dade County Commissioner Audrey Edmonson cut the ribbon on the refurbished tower on Feb. 22.
Residents returned to their rehabilitated units by Dec. 26,...
From the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles' website:
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) was awarded a $3.7 Million Jobs Plus Initiative (JPI) grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The award was announced by Dr. Ben...
From the Los Angeles Times:
Ben Carson, the U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development, went to Watts on Wednesday to announce a $3.7-million grant for a new job center at Nickerson Gardens, the biggest public housing development west of the Mississippi.
The grant to the Housing Authority of...
From the Distirct of Columbia Housing Authority's e-newsletter:
The District of Columbia Housing Authority's Section 3 program was highlighted by the regional director and field office director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Mid-Atlantic Region.
Regional Director Joseph...