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From the Boston Business Journal:
Starry, a Boston-based startup internet service provider, has partnered with Denver Housing Authority to offer broadband internet to affordable and public housing residents.
Denver is just the second city to get Starry’s low-cost internet, following a pilot...
From The Columbus Dispatch:
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority is negotiating with affordable housing developers and operators to acquire two complexes: Thornwood Commons, an 86-unit complex of townhouses and garden-style flats on the North Side near Interstate 71 and East 5th Avenue...
CHA Joins Partners to Celebrate Opening of Pierce House at La Casa Norte (Chicago Housing Authority)
From Lawndale News:
Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) officials joined La Casa Norte, the City of Chicago Department of Housing, local elected officials and members of the community to dedicate Pierce House, which brings 25 units of supportive housing to the Humboldt Park community. The one and...
From the Chicago Defender:
Chicago Housing Authority officials today joined Evergreen Real Estate Group, the City of Chicago Department of Housing and the community to celebrate the opening of Independence Apartments, a mixed-income apartment building that brings affordable housing for seniors to...
From the Akron Beacon Journal:
Tanzania Johnson joined the U.S. Air Force to get out of Akron and start a new beginning.
She enlisted right after graduating from Akron’s Firestone High School in 2010 and became a military police officer. She was stationed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland...
In collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency are hosting four Duty to Serve (DTS) listening sessions this fall. These listening sessions will offer the public the...
CLPHA congratulates Todd Thomas on his new role as HUD’s Director of the Office of Public Housing Programs (OPHP). Effective Monday, October 7, Thomas will lead and manage the OPHP’s Financial Management Division, Management and Occupancy Division, and the Energy Management Center, where he will...
On October 7, CLPHA Board Member Eugene Jones, Jr. began his new role as President & CEO of Atlanta Housing, the largest housing authority in the state of Georgia and one of the largest PHAs in the country.
"Gene is a proven leader in public housing and public finance, and the Board of...
On Thursday, September 26, HUD announced an additional $1.2 million in Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) grants, building on the $74 million in FSS grants HUD awarded earlier this year. FSS grants help public housing authorities hire service coordinators who connect public housing residents with local...
Building off his presentation to 2018 Housing Is Summit attendees, researcher Matthew Morton from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago has released a new policy paper with the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). The report discusses federal policy implications for...