10.5.21
From PIX 11 New York:
A new photo exhibit was launched earlier this month of women making a difference in their NYCHA communities. It’s called “the Community Matriarchs of NYCHA.”
10.5.21
From INLIVIAN (the Charlotte Housing Authority):
In the fastest gentrifying zip code in Charlotte, INLIVIAN is creating inclusive and sustainable housing where people with diverse incomes live, work, and play together. INLIVIAN's CEO Fulton Meachem sits down and discusses the redevelopment of Dillehay Courts. One of INLIVIAN's oldest properties is going to be transformed into modern build...
10.5.21
From CityLand:
On September 28, 2021, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) announced the finalization of a deal to bring 101 new affordable apartments to the Mott Haven neighborhood in the Bronx. The Betances Family Apartments project, located at the corner of East 146th Street and Willis Avenue on NYCHA’s Betances VI...
10.5.21
From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release:
After intermittent homelessness in the past, including two years at a women’s shelter program in San Diego, Melanie moved into a permanent affordable home of her own this month at Trinity Place, developed in collaboration with the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) to provide furnished affordable studios with supportive services for...
10.5.21
From CBS 8 San Diego:
Mayor Todd Gloria highlighted Monday what he is touting as the success of the city's COVID-19 Housing Stability Assistance Program and announced a proposal to establish a $5 million legal defense fund to support struggling tenants.
10.5.21
From the Atlanta Voice:
Monday morning, U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia L. Fudge visited Atlanta as she toured Herndon Square as the City of Atlanta continues to promote their affordable housing initiatives. Herndon Square boasts 586 money rental unites, of which 52% are affordable, 97 senior rental units, and 32 town homes for sale, of which 21% are affordable...
9.23.21
As the September 30 deadline quickly approaches for when the U.S. Treasury Department must begin to recapture and reallocate funds from grantees unwilling or unable to spend down from the original Emergency Rental Assistance Program (known as ERA1), the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is helping unlock ERA funds for its residents. However, several other PHAs continue to encounter...
9.22.21
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority’s press release:
9.21.21
From Lucas Metropolitan Housing's press release:
National Church Residences, in partnership with Lucas Housing Services Corporation-a Lucas Metropolitan Housing (LMH) Non-Profit Affiliate-has been awarded $5,898,509 from HUD's Section 202 Supportive Housing Grant for the Elderly for Collingwood Green Phase V. The Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program provides rental...
9.21.21
From the Housing Authority of Baltimore City's press release:
Governor Larry Hogan, Mayor Brandon Scott, Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) president and CEO Janet Abrahams and City Councilmember Robert Stokes took turns at the controls of an excavator today to help bring down the final bricks on the last of six buildings of phase I of the 1940’s-era Perkins Homes.
9.21.21
From NBC 5 Dallas/Fort Worth:
A historic part of Fort Worth is now even closer to a major transformation.
On Thursday morning, city leaders broke ground on phase one of a multi-part plan to improve the beloved Stop Six neighborhood.
Cowan Place Senior Living, which will be located at East Rosedale Street and Stalcup Road, will feature 174-units designed for seniors 62 and...
9.21.21
From KGW8:
A Vancouver Howard Johnson hotel is being turned into a homeless shelter. The bulk of the construction work began last month, to turn the shuttered hotel into a homeless shelter near the Vancouver mall.
9.21.21
From the Port City Daily:
After serving the the Wilmington Housing Authority since 2014, Katrina Redmon announced Aug. 4 she would resign as CEO effective Sept. 20, 2021. The authority’s board of commissioners announced Thursday it would appoint G. Vernice Hamilton as acting CEO upon Redmon’s departure.
9.14.21
Yesterday HUD announced awards totaling $10 million to 55 public housing authorities for emergency safety and security improvement grants. Six CLPHA members were among those PHAs awarded grants: New York City Housing Authority, Seattle Housing Authority, Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority, Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, and the...
9.9.21
Home Forward Executive Director Michael Buonocore recently announced his intention to resign from the housing authority effective February 2022 in order to focus on creative pursuits, including book writing and podcasting.
9.8.21
From the District of Columbia Housing Authority’s press release:
9.8.21
From Patch.com:
King County has launched a program aimed to house more homeless veterans, using a new partnership between the King County Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
9.7.21
From the Los Angeles Sentinel:
9.7.21
From WAVY 10 News:
On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until Oct. 3.
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That includes Norfolk, where Nealy Gihan works with the Norfolk Redevelopment Housing Authority.
They help folks in Section 8 housing through their housing choice voucher program.
9.7.21
From the Kitsap Sun:
The first time Monica Bernhard walked into one of Pendleton Place’s unfinished apartments, she started crying.
“They have room numbers already written above them, and I just try to imagine who that person's going to be, that we're bringing in from the outside and finally giving them an opportunity for housing,” Bernhard, Kitsap Mental Health Services chief...
9.7.21
From the Chicago-Sun Times:
Eighteen-year-old triplets Javier, Gerald Jr. and Miles Lumpkins are days away from heading to college — the first generation in their families to do so.
On Wednesday, their journey was made a little easier when, along with more than 170 other students at the Charles Hayes Center at 4859 S. Wabash, they took part in the Chicago Housing Authority’s annual...
9.7.21
From ABC 13 Toledo:
In late June, the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority opened up their waitlist for affordable housing that had been closed since February of 2020. They received nearly 3000 applications.