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9.16.19 CLPHA Member Update
With the explosion of the opioid epidemic over the last decade, communities have seen alarming increases in substance abuse and drug-related deaths. Given the scale and urgency of these issues, officials at the local, state, and federal level have sought to prevent and treat addiction and drug...
9.12.19 Members Making News
From WHYY: Chester’s Ruth Bennett Community Farm is a vibrant oasis in a desert of dull brick and lifeless concrete. Tucked below Interstate 95 at the top of a cul-de-sac, the 2-acre farm teems with life: organic produce, wildflowers, and a host of winged insects that flutter between the two. “...
9.12.19 Members Making News
From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Residents of Pittsburgh’s Bedford Dwellings are getting a lift from Lyft. The ride-share service on Thursday announced it would transport residents of Bedford and those at Prospect Terrace in East Pittsburgh, both public housing communities, to and from...
9.12.19 Members Making News, Awards/Grants
From the Toledo Blade: The Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority has received nearly $1 million in grant funding to identify and reduce lead-based paint hazards. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday awarded $970,225 to the local housing authority as part of a total...
9.12.19 Members Making News
From the Urban Institute: Altgeld Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development, is an isolated community on the far south side of the city and is home to nearly 1,500 families. But it doesn’t have a single grocery store. Within the past year, the only two food outlets in the community—a...
9.12.19
On Tuesday, the U.S House of Representatives passed by vote H.R. 1690, the Safe Housing for Families Act of 2019, to protect residents of public housing from carbon monoxide poisoning by authorizing over $300 million over three years to fund the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide...
8.8.19 Awards/Grants
A new public health funding opportunity from the Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI) and the Center for Sharing Public Health Services (CSPHS) could help support public housing authorities that are building and sustaining cross-sector health partnerships. PHNCI and CSPHS are...
8.8.19 Report, Case Study
The National Housing Conference (NHC) has released its latest report, “Promising Health and Housing Collaborations," which discuss learnings from three innovative health care and housing partnerships. With funding from a Kresge Foundation grant, NHC brought together practitioners from both...
8.8.19 Research, Report
HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) recently published its fiscal years 2017 and 2018 Biennial Report. According to PD&R, the goal of their report is to inform those who use the data and research PD&R produces about who PD&R is, what PD&R does, and some input...
8.8.19 Members Making News
From Wicked Local Cambridge: The city of Cambridge recently announced four local nonprofit partnerships will receive $30,000 planning grants from the city’s Community Benefits Fund. The fund was established to utilize funding from developers, received through zoning amendments or other...

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