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On Wednesday, March 24, CLPHA member Brian Gage, executive director of the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority, testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance during their hearing "Preserving a Lifeline: Examining...
In TIME’s February 18 article “Millions of Tenants Behind on Rent, Small Landlords Struggling, Eviction Moratoriums Expiring Soon: Inside the Next Housing Crisis,” writer Abby Vesoulis outlines the looming housing crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s ...
CLPHA congratulates the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority upon receiving a $246,468 grant from HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program!
HUD’s Family Self -Sufficiency (FSS) Program funding helps local public housing authorities to hire Service Coordinators who work...
To close out Black History Month, Atlanta Housing offered a thought-provoking, timely discussion on the intersections of race and housing, titled “Dialogues in Housing: Affordable Housing & the Race Factor” that explored:
The history of how race impacted...
From the Fresno Bee:
Members of the board of commissioners of the Housing Authorities of the City and County of Fresno named Angie Nguyen interim CEO during a special meeting on Thursday, nine days after they failed to fill the position at a regularly scheduled February meeting.
Nguyen, chief of...
From the New York City Housing Authority’s press release:
[On March 10, 2021] NYCHA released its unconstrained Transformation Plan, a vision for significant yet sustainable change to NYCHA’s governance and leadership structure, property management systems, and central support...
From WAVY News Norfolk:
There was a continuous flow of people heading into the community building in the Calvert Square neighborhood of Norfolk Sunday.
All of them were waiting patiently to get their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
“It feels good to get the first one out the way,” said Norfolk...
From the Yakima Herald:
Construction of the Chuck Austin Place — a veterans housing project and service hub in Yakima — is on track for summer completion.
Apartments have been built and work continues to transform an old armory into additional housing and a center where medical, dental...
From the Boston Herald:
The city’s mobile vaccination site has begun putting shots in arms, starting with 100 vaccines at a Boston public housing project for seniors in Roxbury.
“This is the beginning of a mobile effort that the city’s going to roll out to bring vaccines to people’s homes, to...
From ABC 6 Columbus:
18-year-old, Ka’Marr Smith has traveled a tough road. After the death of his mother, he bounced around between family members.
Smith found himself getting into trouble and acting out, which lead him down an even darker path.
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A professor then pointed Smith in the...