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From the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency's newsletter:
SHRA Executive Director La Shelle Dozier was recently recognized during the California Women Making Herstory Senate floor ceremony. La Shelle is also Senate District 8’s Woman of the Year, nominated by Senator Angelique Ashby....
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...
From The Oregonian:
Charles Coleman was living out of his car and paying for a membership at an inexpensive gym to simply access a shower before he was approved for a place at the new Hattie Redmond Apartments in North Portland.
He was among the first residents who moved in when the new...
From the San Diego Union Tribune:
The city of San Diego’s first homeless shelter focused on youths who identify as LGBTQ could open sometime this year in one or two interim locations before a permanent site is located.
The San Diego Housing Commission on Thursday selected the LGBT Community...
From Bloomberg:
Next to the six-lane highway that bursts westward out of the Holland tunnel, a humble 80-year-old, four-story development is nestled among the sparkling new high-rise condominiums in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Holland Gardens, one of Jersey City’s five public housing complexes...
On April 13, CLPHA and its industry partners sent a letter to President Biden voicing concern about the potential impact of the guidance on implementing the Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act. The groups are requesting that OMB modify its interpretation of the law’s language and exclude...
18 Members Invited to Accept Stability Voucher Awards
Today, HUD announced a second round of CoC grants and Stability Vouchers to communities to address unsheltered homelessness, adding to the first set of grant awards announced in February. The awards include $171.2 million in grants for 115...
On April 10, HUD announced funding for 11,000 new HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers. In 2022, HUD awarded $25 million in HUD-VASH funding to interested PHAs. This year, HUD is making $94.4 million available in VASH funding under PIH Notice 2023-09. According to the Notice,...
HUD published PIH Notice 2023-07 which implements the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program funding provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY23. HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge announced that $30.3 billion is now available for HCVs in 2023, which is a historic, $2.9 billion (10.5...
CLPHA and its counsel Reno & Cavanaugh have prepared our comments on the proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule and are ready to receive members’ feedback. CLPHA and Reno underwent a lengthy feedback-gathering process that included several...