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From ABC 7 News Chicago:
At the Jane Addams Family Resource Center on the Friday before Christmas, hundreds of kids living in Chicago Housing Authority homes received presents from the man in red, customized according to letters they wrote to Santa through the charity Santa for a Day.
Santa...
From the Columbus Dispatch:
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority plans to spend $247 million in 2020 to acquire 500 units and acquire and rehabilitate, or just rehab, another 928.
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority continues to shed public housing units while acquiring others...
From the Columbus Dispatch:
I was pleased to read last Sunday’s Dispatch article “Housing authority acting like developer” about the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority. Having worked with a dozen or more public-housing authorities in Ohio and elsewhere in the past 45 years, I feel the need to...
From the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles' newsletter:
A joint program with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was announced on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 as a part of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s monthly press...
From Multi-Housing News:
New York State’s first LGBT-friendly affordable elder housing featuring 145 units has opened in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Dubbed Stonewall House to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan that spurred the beginning of the national movement...
From NBC Bay Area:
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Friday that it's providing $2.8 million in tenant protection vouchers to public housing residents in Oakland.
HUD officials said the vouchers will help families with relocation or replacement housing from...
$3.7 million awarded to Housing Commission to house military veterans (San Diego Housing Commission)
From ABC 10 News San Diego:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced today that the San Diego Housing Commission will receive nearly $4 million in federal funding to help homeless military veterans find housing.
The Housing Commission will receive a nearly $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department...
From the San Diego Housing Commission's newsletter:
Representatives from HUD, including Regional Administrator Christopher Patterson, were in San Diego on December 18, to receive an update on the San Diego EnVision Center, a partnership between HUD, the City of San Diego, SDHC, and the San...
Heard The Call: Boston Housing Ready to Reach Out To Youth of Bunker Hill (Boston Housing Authority)
From the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge:
The leadership of the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) has reached out to the Turn It Around youth group and other youth in the Bunker Hill Development to talk with them about the potential changes coming to their homes.
After an article in last week’s...
From the Seattle Housing Authority's website:
The 2020 Seattle/King County Clinic will be opening its doors at Seattle Center, Feb. 13-16. The massive volunteer-driven clinic is usually held at KeyArena, but due to reconstruction, this year’s Clinic will be held in various...