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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...
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)....
A new resource from the FrameWorks Institute, Framing Two-Generation Approaches to Supporting Families, offers guidance for explaining two-generation approaches to updating human services systems to make sure that there are equal, simultaneous, and intentional efforts to build the wellbeing of...
CLPHA is pleased to share the education working group’s webinar series calendar of events for 2019-2020. Remember, these webinars are open to our broader community of practice! This latest round of webinars will cover topics including attendance, child welfare, racial equity, and predatory for-...
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...
From TrentonDaily:
The African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (AACCNJ) in partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb, Change Church and the Trenton Housing Authority is pleased to launch a comprehensive Saturday Academy, STEM education program titled NJ-Kids4Coding. STEM instructors...
From the Milwaukee Independent:
The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) welcomed nearly 300 people to its annual meeting on July 17, to celebrate the “ripples of hope” created throughout its 75 years of providing high quality, affordable housing options, and supportive services...
From KFOX14:
A local property association is running a backpack and school supply drive.
The greater El Paso Association of Realtors held
The backpack and school supply drive was held at the Housing Authority of the city of El Paso at 5300 E. Paisano Drive, near the roundabout of...