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From the Municipal Housing Authority of the City of Yonkers' press release:
Officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the NYS Office of Housing and Community Renewal were among those who toured a unique senior housing complex in Southwest Yonkers that is being...
From Yale Climate Connections:
The federal government requires all public housing to be heated to keep residents warm, but it does not require cooling. So during heat waves, people may be at risk of heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses, especially as the climate warms.
So Miami-Dade...
From Dezeen:
Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has completed The Atrium at Sumner Houses, an affordable housing block with 190 apartments for seniors in Brooklyn, New York.
Located at the centre of the New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA) Sumner Houses campus, the...
A new publication from the King County Housing Authority, Seattle Housing Authority, and Tacoma Housing Authority shares their PHAs' perspectives on how the Moving to Work (MTW) program has allowed them to innovate programming and tailor housing resources and services for low-...
CLPHA Called for BABA Exemption
On May 24, 2024, Vickie Longosz, Senior Attorney from HUD’s Office of General Counsel, announced that the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA)...
Tuesday, June 11 | 2:00 p.m. ET
Housing concerns impact many older adults, but for the LGBTQ+ community there are added challenges that have built up over a lifetime, making their path to housing particularly difficult. Housing policy has failed to understand the diverse histories and experiences...
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
Thomas King had earned an Associate Degree from Truman College and had transferred to Northeastern Illinois University where he’d been accepted into the Godwin School of Education. Everything was going well for the former restaurant worker who...
From Community College Daily:
In 2014, Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) began a partnership to help housing-insecure students.
Funded through the U.S. Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) Moving to Work program, the College Housing...
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
Two-thousand dollars may not seem like a lot. But, for DePaul freshman Kelvin Jackson Pore, it was the difference between realizing his dreams and not.
“The CHA Scholarship was the deciding factor in him being able to go to college,” said his...