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From Opportunity Home San Antonio's website:
As part of the local housing bond and federal grants, the City of San Antonio has selected four Opportunity Home San Antonio affordable housing projects to receive $8.3 million in funding.
On June 8, City Council voted on the city’s selection to fund...
From ABC 10 News San Diego:
The San Diego Housing Commission Thursday began a pilot program to assist middle-income Black, Indigenous and people of color first- time homebuyers.
Homeownership rates for many households of color are significantly lower than other racial groups. An SDHC-commissioned...
From the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency's newsletter:
SHRA recently celebrated the grand opening of Mirasol Village, a transformative redevelopment project which replaces the former 218-unit Twin Rivers public housing community into a 22-acre modern designed complex of 427...
From Spectrum News 1:
About $100,000 is being put toward efforts to increase the availability of healthy food options in underserved areas of Milwaukee.
The City of Milwaukee announced Monday that seven for-profit and not-for-profit organizations supporting health food initiatives received this...
From the New York Times:
Tearing down public housing has become something of a national trend, except in New York, where the New York City Housing Authority has held onto its stock of aging buildings even as repair bills and tenant complaints mount.
But that may be changing.
NYCHA is...
On Wednesday, May 31, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) joined with Nike Executives, the Boys & Girls Club and Councilmember Traci Park of Los Angeles Council District 11 to celebrate the unveiling of a new outdoor turf soccer field in the heart of Mar Vista...
From the Boston Globe:
Almost a quarter-century ago, the word came down from Washington, D.C.: The federal government was done building public housing.
A new law capped the number of deeply affordable apartments Washington would subsidize in any given city at whatever existed in 1999,...
Fort Wayne Housing Authority Partners with Jorgensen Family YMCA to Reduce Risk of Children Drowning
According to the Children’s Safety Network, 3,572 people die from drowning yearly in the U.S.-- 945 are children. Children account for one out of four drowning deaths. To raise awareness of this issue and provide families with resources Fort Wayne Housing Authority is partnering with...
From Affordable Housing Finance:
A 279-unit affordable housing community for families and seniors celebrated its grand opening in Alexandria, Virginia.
Residences at North Hill is a key component of a large-scale revitalization effort transforming 34 underutilized acres off Richmond Highway....
From the Dorchester Reporter:
When Codman Square’s Gisselle Jimenez heard about the One Plus Boston mortgage, which helps public housing or Section 8 voucher holders achieve homeownership with up to $75,000 in assistance, she thought it sounded too good to be true.
But the path she embarked upon...