12.15.21
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), 43rd Ward Ald. Michele Smith and representatives from Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) and CHA co-development partner PIRHL Developers hosted a groundbreaking for the new Sheffield of Lincoln Park family building and the renovation of the Edith Spurlock Sampson Apartments and Annex Tuesday...
12.15.21
From KSAT 12 San Antonio:
The season of giving is here and the San Antonio Housing Authority is making sure local children and elderly residents in need get presents this Christmas.
“Our community is among the most vulnerable in the whole community in San Antonio,” said Susan Ramos-Sossaman, Assistant Director for Community Development Initiatives with San Antonio Housing Authority...
12.15.21
On December 5, 2021, the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP recognized Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority CEO Jeffery K. Patterson with the 2021 Unsung Hero Award at the NAACP’s 109th Anniversary Freedom Fund Dinner: “Advancing Equity Forward.” This award recognizes community leaders who have influenced a program or organization with a positive attitude, a willingness to help in whatever capacity...
12.15.21
This is the second article in the Build Back Better Benefits series that highlights how the funds targeted to public housing in the Build Back Better legislation will benefit local communities. The first article in the series focused on Baltimore. You can read it here.
12.2.21
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a series on how Build Back Better Act funds will help public housing authorities better serve their residents and communities.
12.2.21
From the Star Tribune:
The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority plans to demolish more than a dozen houses it owns and replace them with 84 units in four- and six-plexes across the city.
The roughly $34 million project is expected to begin in the summer of 2022 and calls for replacing aging "scattered site" public housing. Authority officials said only one of the 16 parcels...
12.1.21
From the Municipal Housing Authority of the City of Yonkers' (MHACY) press release:
It was a happy X-Giving for more than 350 senior residents of affordable housing run by the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers (MHACY) who received special Thanksgiving meals thanks to the generosity of donors including Def Jam Recordings who donated in memory of the late rapper "DMX."
12.1.21
Last month, the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency celebrated a major milestone -- SHRA has helped 10,000 families to remain in their homes with their Sacramento Emergency Rental Assistance (SERA) program!
12.1.21
From Affordable Housing Finance:
"After 14 months of construction, a 70-unit apartment community is about to welcome military veterans, including those transitioning from homelessness, in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. The development is one of the first private veterans’ communities in the U.S. to offer rental housing to former service members at a range of incomes along with comprehensive...
12.1.21
From MyNewsLA:
Los Angeles was one of eight cities announced Monday as recipients of $450,000 federal grants to support a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plan.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funds were given to the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, which will use the money to develop a “transformational plan” by and for residents of...
12.1.21
From WFAE 90.7 Charlotte:
After two years of work by Charlotte affordable housing advocates, a campaign to end discrimination against renters based on the source of their income should reach a climax in the next two months.
In 2019, a group of affordable housing organizations banded together to prevent landlords from denying housing to tenants who use government housing vouchers,...
12.1.21
From TAP into Paterson:
"The Housing Authority of Paterson (PHA) and the Paterson Division of Health are partnering to offer unvaccinated resident participating in the PHA’s Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8) $100 per family member over the age of five that gets the vaccine.
"Extensive science tells us that getting vaccinated is the best way to prevent contracting COVID-19...
12.1.21
From the Fort Worth Report:
"After The Holston in the Alliance corridor opened in June, Kendrick Ladd moved in with his clothes, a few personal items and his sister’s car. He is an Army veteran who was dealing with homelessness.
Today, Ladd, 32, is running a mobile mechanic business, Kendrick Ladd’s Auto Repair. He is working on getting the LLC paperwork complete.
11.18.21
Public housing authorities know that providing stable housing is only the first step in helping families thrive. A comprehensive approach that combines health, education, and housing programs has shown to dramatically improve life outcomes for low-income families. Public housing authorities have been in the vanguard developing cross-sector initiatives for their residents, who represent extremely...
11.18.21
Chicago Housing Authority Senior Resident Leader Is Veteran Whose Devotion Is to Other Vets, Seniors
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
Robert Scott spent 12 years in the United States Army, traveling all over the world. From Europe, to the Far East, to France. He jumped out of planes. And he fought in Vietnam. He’s seen a lot. And not all of it is pretty.
That’s why, as President of the Chicago Housing Authority’s North Side Senior Local Advisory Council (LAC),...
11.17.21
Article from the Vancouver Housing Authority:
Damien Wheeler spent first through 12th grade living with his mom, twin brother and sister in a sprawling neighborhood of subsidized duplexes and fourplexes in Vancouver, Wash. A rental voucher, SSI and other public supports kept the family afloat.
“My mom, she did the best she could do and we all understood that,” Wheeler said. “She just...
11.17.21
From ABC 7 News Washington, D.C.:
On Veterans Day eve, dozens of formerly homeless vets in Prince George’s County have new homes.
They’ve qualified for vet-specific housing vouchers and have been paired with landlords and given keys during a special event in College Park.
...
11.17.21
From the Brooklyn Reader:
A new 12-story 100% affordable housing development will bring 179 permanently affordable apartments to extremely low and low-income families in Brownsville.
11.17.21
From The Columbus Dispatch:
The former site of a rock music venue with a tragic history in Columbus' Northland neighborhood will soon get a major makeover.
11.17.21
As construction on the Cambridge Housing Authority 's Burns Apartments continues, CHA posted before-and-after photos of the community that highlight the significant progress the housing authority has made in revitalizing the property. Construction on the 198 units at Burns Apartments started in February 2020, and is scheduled to be completed in late 2022.
View the photos on CHA's...
11.17.21
From the San Jose Spotlight:
Flags fly at half-mast each Nov. 11 to honor Veterans Day across the country. In Silicon Valley, fewer veterans will look at those flags while living on the streets.
All the Way Home, a campaign launched in 2015 to help end the homeless veterans crisis, has housed 2,201 veterans during the past seven years. The program is deemed a success in Santa Clara...
11.17.21
From the New England Real Estate Journal:
According to The Schochet Companies, Rindge Associates LP has executed an agreement with the city to preserve as affordable 504 housing units at Fresh Pond Apartments.
11.17.21
Officials dedicate Chuck Austin Place veterans housing facility in Yakima (Yakima Housing Authority)
From the Yakima Herald:
The 246th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps was the perfect day to honor Chuck Austin and the veterans housing facility that bears his name in Yakima.
More than 100 veterans, elected officials and representatives of companies that built the Chuck Austin Place Veteran Housing and Services Center gathered on a cool and sunny Wednesday morning to remember the...
11.17.21
From the Charlotte Observer:
Atrium Health provided new details Tuesday on plans for its billion-dollar “innovation district” surrounding the city’s future medical school, including the hospital system’s request for $75 million from the city and county. Plans for the district include a mix of research facilities, residential buildings and retail shops surrounding the med school. The district...