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Local Austin, TX news station KVUE highlighted the Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA) and Dell Medical School's new Bringing Health Home initiative at HACA's Booker T. Washington Terraces in East  Austin. Funded via a $315,000 grant from the St. David's Foundation, the initiative will serve over 200 families at the community, over 75 percent of which have one or more chronic health conditions. The initiative's planning is currently in preliminary stages, and HACA and Dell Medical School are incorporating residents' feedback about what programs and services will best serve their needs. The initiative will include the hiring of community health workers to "administer door-to-door health assessments, develop and deliver personalized wellness plans to public housing residents and support group health visits and walking groups."

As one Dell Medical School representative said in the piece, "We've got to get out of the clinics, and the Housing Authority is the perfect partner because this is where people live."

You can watch the news story online here.

Washington State’s Department of Commerce awarded $3 million to the Vancouver Housing Authority for its Tenny Creek Assisted Living project, a future 40-unit community for individuals experiencing chronic mental illness.

The Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) won a $50,000 Evergreen Options Renewable Energy Project grant from Tacoma Power, which THA will use to build solar panels at the Crisis Residential Center (CRC) at its future Arlington Drive Youth Campus. The CRC will be a 12-bed facility for housing and providing services to homeless youth.

The Seattle Times published a story about the positive impact of the Edward Thomas House, a respite care facility housed within the Seattle Housing Authority’s Jefferson Terrace community.

San Antonio’s Historic Design and Review Commission gave conceptual approval to the San Antonio Housing Authority’s (SAHA) proposed 216-unit mixed income community near the Lavaca neighborhood. The complex will be built on the former site of SAHA’s Victoria Courts community at a cost of $45.6 million.