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From the Chicago Tribune:
Let’s dispense with the obvious, shall we? Three new Chicago buildings, which combine public libraries and public housing, are head and shoulders above the Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini-Green and the rest of the city’s dehumanizing, now-demolished public housing projects...
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...
From the Boston Globe:
Rafael Salas, an incoming freshman at Westfield State University, dreams of the day when he can help his family leave public housing.
In middle school, when he began attending a youth development program run through the Cambridge Housing Authority, Salas said he already...
From WBUR Boston Public Radio:
Bill McGonagle, administrator for the Boston Housing Authority, will retire this month after working with the agency for 40 years.
He started there as a janitor in the 1970s and has been the head since 2009, when he was appointed by Mayor Thomas Menino....
A recent Crosswalk Magazine article spotlights the evolution of the Fresno Housing Authority’s (FHA) local education partnerships aimed at improving school and life outcomes for FHA’s youngest residents.
One of FHA’s most impactful collaborations is with the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD)....
In tandem with the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s (CMHA) two-year, $350,000 project to revitalize Woodhill Homes, ideastream, a publicly supported and locally owned multimedia news source in Northeast Ohio, is producing a series of stories about the community and its residents.
In the...
On August 14, the Denver Housing Authority (DHA) announced the completion of 1035 Osage, a multi-tenant commercial property that will also be home to the agency’s main headquarters and central office operations. The development is the capstone phase of the Mariposa District, DHA’s vibrant,...
Yesterday, executives from the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and the Los Angeles County Development Authority (LACDA) discussed their commitment and programmatic efforts to house people experiencing homelessness in the city and county of Los Angeles during a field hearing of...
From the Yakima Herald-Republic:
The transformation of the former Yakima Armory into housing for homeless and low-income veterans is underway after the Yakima Housing Authority broke ground on the long-awaited project Wednesday.
Yakima Housing Authority Executive Director Lowel Krueger, U.S. Sen...
From the San Antonio Housing Authority's (SAHA) press release:
In a momentous occasion for the city’s largest affordable housing developer, the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) Board of Commissioners approved $486 million to build and pursue financing for 14 affordable housing...