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This week, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading announced 2023 Public Housing Communities Honor Roll. The honorees employ strategies and tactics that leverage the resources of public housing agencies and organizations to advance seamless systems of coordinated and aligned care, services and...
From HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research (PD&R):
In 2017, HUD awarded $33 million to 10 Continuums of Care (CoCs) in Round 1 of its Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to develop and implement coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending homelessness of...
From Axios Cleveland:
At Michael Zone Recreation Center on Cleveland's West Side on Monday, Mayor Bibb passed out boxes of produce to a line of vehicles snaking through the parking lot and onto West 65th Street.
Bibb was on hand for a "produce pop-up," one of three monthly food...
From HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Newsletter:
Through Choice Neighborhoods, the Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver (DHA) created a unique fresh foods market in a former food desert. Decatur Fresh Market opened in November 2021 on the ground floor of DHA’s first housing phase. In...
From Ideastream:
Woodridge Local Schools, the city of Cuyahoga Falls and the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority (AMHA) are partnering to provide free Wi-Fi to residents in public housing.
AMHA Director of Resident Services Christina Hodgkinson said the project began with enabling Wi-Fi in...
CLPHA Spring Meeting Stimulates Racial Equity & Inclusion Conversations, Draws Members of Congress to Discuss Their Visions for Public and Affordable Housing, and Celebrates Members’ Innovations and Accomplishments
CLPHA members gathered in the nation’s capital for our spring meeting to...
The Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation's (PAHRC) new report, How Public Housing Authorities are Addressing Equity, finds that while more than four out of five public housing agencies (PHAs) surveyed have implemented a strategy to help residents achieve successful outcomes, only one...
A new issue brief from Pew Charitable Trusts outlines the challenges and opportunities of providing broadband in affordable rental housing. The authors interviewed experts in housing, broadband, and digital equity (including CLPHA), as well as personnel from federal and state agencies that provide...
From the Chicago Fire's press release:
Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, the Chicago Fire Football Club, Alderman Jason Ervin (28th Ward), and the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) today announced the signing of a ground lease for a new training facility for Chicago’s Major League Soccer (MLS) team in the...
From Black Enterprise:
On Monday February 27th, 10x-NBA All-Star, basketball legend, entrepreneur, and philanthropist James Harden‘s Impact13 Foundation joined forces with the Houston Housing Authority to reinvigorate, recharge, and revive Cuney Home’s Basketball Court. As a...