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Leading smart cities industry publication Smart Cities Dive published an article about the Chicago Housing Authority’s (CHA) innovative partnership with Chicago Public Libraries (CPL) to co-locate CPL libraries within CHA communities. CHA and CPL recently cut the ribbon...
The Healthy Corner Store Initiative (HCSI), a new pilot program developed by San Antonio-area partners, will offer food vouchers redeemable for healthy food at corner stores in San Antonio’s District 3. HCSI will make these vouchers available to San Antonio Housing Authority ...
The San Diego Housing Commission held its 13thannual Project Homeless Connect event, a resource fair for San Diegans experiencing homelessness that provides donated items such as shoes and snacks and offers services like eye exams, flu shots, haircuts, dental screenings, health care...
The California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) Broadband Public Housing Account awarded the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino (HACSB) a $484,830 grant for the Broadband Adoption Digital Learning Centers project. HACSB and partner Great Harvest Community Center, Inc...
Basketball superstar Steph Curry marked a celebratory return to his hometown of Charlotte, NC, last month for the 2019 NBA All-Star Weekend by unveiling a large-scale renovation of the Carole Hoefener Center to serve the community of Charlotte for years to come. The updates to the...
Last week, CLPHA’s Education Working Group hosted a webinar for 50 attendees featuring representatives from the King County Housing Authority (KCHA) and the national non-profit Attendance Works. Cara Ianni and Ted Dezember discussed their efforts to help educate KCHA residents on...
CLPHA’s Membership Spotlight features the outstanding work and achievements of our member public housing authorities - the nation’s largest and most innovative PHAs. Based on interviews with PHA executives, these brief profiles spotlight our members’ initiatives to strengthen their...
In an article in GOVERNING, "The Unintended Consequences of Smoke-Free Public Housing," Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program officers Emmy Ganos and Matthew Pierce cite the Housing Authority of Cook County's (HACC) 2015 smoke-free policy rollout as an example of a successful implementation...
Be sure to check out our newly posted smoke-free policy resources on housingis.org!
Building Success, a team of Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston University researchers, has created a toolkit of practical strategies to help PHAs adopt and implement effective smoke-...
Longtime Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) partner Michael Best & Friedrich LLP donated gifts to nearly 100 HACM residents last holiday season .