3.4.22
From the New Haven Register:
The campaign over the state’s need for affordable housing and the power of mostly white suburban enclaves in one of the country’s most-segregated states was renewed in the General Assembly on Tuesday, when lawmakers heard public testimony on a variety of bills, including legislation that would allow housing authorities to purchase properties in adjacent towns.
3.4.22
From California Governor Gavin Newsom's press release:
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced more than $116 million in funding for seven Homekey projects across the state. The seven new projects will provide 387 housing units for people experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
3.4.22
From the Metropolitan Council's press release:
With affordable housing in short supply in the Twin Cities region, the Metropolitan Council has approved $8 million in grant awards to 10 affordable housing developments. The grants will fill project funding gaps and help create 557 new affordable homes and preserve another 113 affordable housing units.
3.4.22
From Clark County Today:
Evergreen Habitat for Humanity is launching a new Habitat Home Trust focused on preserving affordable housing stock in Clark County through permanent affordability. The first 50 homes in the trust include the homes at Habitat’s new Johnson Village subdivision, and homes the nonprofit acquired thanks to a partnership with Vancouver Housing Authority.
3.4.22
From Public News Service:
A new alliance has formed to address Connecticut's affordable housing crisis, with a focus on its urban centers.
"Growing Together Connecticut" is a multi-year effort to pass housing laws and reforms that confront discriminatory policies, like redlining, that have led to disinvestment in cities.
One way to do that is through "fair-share" policies...
3.4.22
Housing Hope to build affordable housing near Edmonds church (Housing Authority of Snohomish County)
From Everett, WA's HeraldNet:
Housing Hope, a nonprofit and affordable housing developer, intends to build 52 apartments on a lot next to Edmonds Lutheran Church. Construction is to start this year.
“This is really executing on our plan to at least compete for and try to start a new project every year,” Housing Hope CEO Fred Safstrom said. “… It’s going to be a very attractive,...
2.24.22
2.23.22
From the New Haven Independent:
“Equity” and “excellence” are about to get an update.
Those two words summarized the mission of a five-year plan to guide Connecticut’s schools. The State Board of Education drafted and began undertaking the plan five years ago.
Now the board is crafting a new five-year plan. It has a new chair to guide that process: New Haven’s Karen ...
2.23.22
From Clark County Today:
Two affordable housing projects – one nearing completion and one in the planning stages –recently received grants from the Washington State Department of Commerce.
The city of Vancouver received $1,059,085 for Laurel Manor and $161,907 for The Meridian to cover sewer, water or stormwater improvements and/or waive system development charges.
2.23.22
From the Mountain View Voice:
A proposal to develop a city parking lot at 444 Bryant St. into affordable housing took a big step forward when the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently agreed to loan $9.75 million in county funds toward the project.
The Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the loan, funded through the county's Measure A Affordable Housing bond, on Feb...
2.23.22
From Starry, Inc.'s press release:
2.23.22
From 303 Magazine:
Denver has changed quite a bit over the past decade. The population is growing at record rates, while affordable housing initiatives on the state level have stayed on the back burner as developers have reeled in on a booming housing market.
“Last year the real estate market went up 20% in ownership units; this year it’s projected to go up another 20%,” said David...
2.23.22
From the New York City Housing Authority's press release:
2.23.22
From 90.5 WESA Pittsburgh:
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh will apply for a $50 million grant for the Hill District in 2022, officials announced at a community meeting Tuesday night. The federal money, called a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant, would be used to rebuild and expand the authority’s oldest housing development, Bedford Dwellings.
2.10.22
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) CEO Jeffery K. Patterson was elected president of CLPHA’s board of directors at CLPHA’s December 2021 board meeting. He previously served as the board’s vice president.
Recently, CLPHA sat down with Mr. Patterson to discuss his priorities for CLPHA and how he plans to lead our organization.
Read the Interview
2.9.22
From the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino's press release:
2.9.22
From SmartCitiesWorld:
Boston is investing more than $12m to bring digital equity and inclusion to nearly 23,000 Boston public housing residents, library users, and school-age families.
The new funding will provide free access to wireless broadband service and devices to help public housing seniors and residents get online and will also provide Chromebook laptops to Boston Public...
2.9.22
From ABC 4 Salt Lake City:
The Housing Authority of Salt Lake City (HASLC) has been awarded a position through a federal program that will expand affordable housing efforts in the state.
HASLC is now part of the Moving to Work Landlord (MTW) Incentive cohort, which was created by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In January 2022, the HUD...
2.9.22
From the Boston Globe:
Boston wireless Internet service provider Starry struck a deal with the Cambridge Housing Authority to offer broadband connections to thousands of apartments in the city.
Under the deal announced on Thursday, Starry will provide $15-per-month Internet service to residents of more than 2,630 units. But the residents won’t have to pay even that price, as the...
2.9.22
From The San Diego Union-Tribune:
The first tenants have begun moving into Father Joe’s Villages’ Saint Teresa of Calcutta Villa, and rooms still are available for qualified veterans facing homelessness or in need of low-income housing.
2.9.22
From the Fairfax County Times:
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has approved a little more than $33 million in financing support for the development of 175 affordable homes – to be known as Dominion Square West. The development is the first step of a two-phase plan to bring affordable housing and needed community amenities to the Tysons area.
2.9.22
From the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh's press release:
A greener future is on the horizon, and the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) is helping lead the way.
2.9.22
From The Denver Gazette:
Denver's Department of Housing Stability and Mayor Michael Hancock launched a housing initiative Tuesday with a goal of getting 400 homeless residents housed in 100 days.
Denver launched a similar initiative at the beginning of September with the goal of housing 200 people. Officials said 576 people were housed at 346 households during that initiative.
2.9.22
From KSAT San Antonio:
Derailed primarily by public outcry, instead of a public-private partnership, the San Antonio Housing Authority is asking the community to “Reimagine Alazan,” a master plan for the city’s oldest and most historic housing project.
“This is the residents’ and the community’s master plan, not our master plan,” said Mario Pena, whose firm, Able City, was selected...