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From MinnPost:
A Minnesota Senate committee will take up a proposal on Friday to grant $45 million to the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to fix up hundreds of houses that the agency rents to some of the city’s lowest-income families.
Most of the families with children that MPHA...
From LoHud.com:
Last summer, Shanequa Benitez borrowed her mom’s electric bike and pedaled up and down Yonkers’ notorious hills. Using her grandfather’s Vivitar 35-millimeter camera, the 34-year-old Yonkers native photographed friends on sweltering afternoons in and around Cromwell Towers, the...
Meeting topics include various updates from CLPHA on HUD policy and programs and the latest developments in Washington, D.C., including AFFH, VAWA, HOTMA, BABA, and the ACC. We also have a member dicussion around ransomware and cybersecurity attacks at PHAs.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Buildings Upgrade Prize (Buildings UP) is offering more than $22 million in cash prizes and technical assistance to teams across America with winning ideas to accelerate widespread, equitable energy...
On March 2 at 2:00 p.m. ET, HUD will host an information session and training on Section 103 of the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA). Section 103 of HOTMA created new limitations on tenancy and program participation for formerly income-eligible families...
CLPHA 360: Public & Affordable Housing News
CLPHA 360: Public & Affordable Housing News
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority CEO and CLPHA President Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman to discuss how CLPHA’s Housing Is Initiative has elevated collaborations between the housing and education sectors to improve education outcomes for...
A new article from the Urban Institute outlines how federal policymakers can boost affordable housing production in exclusionary communities. Decades of under-investment and insufficient construction levels have led to a major shortage of affordable housing. In some areas, this inadequate...
From the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley:
As communities across the country grapple with rising housing costs and widening inequality, state legislatures are taking action and seeking solutions to encourage housing production by targeting one key factor: restrictive local land...
New analysis from the Urban Institute highlights the risk that families in neglected public housing units face from climate change. The majority of public housing residents are people of color, older adults, or people with disabilities, and generations of disinvestment have displaced public...