CLPHA Press Room

From Comstock Magazine: 

Like many public housing complexes, poverty was common at Dos Rios. The median income of residents who most recently lived at Dos Rios in 2018 was $12,000 a year compared to the median income citywide that is seven times greater. Williams says that reflects the demographic makeup of the people who lived there and in other SHRA housing projects. “The majority of our residents are elderly, disabled or single heads of household raising kids,” Williams says. “Public housing for so many people is the last safety net before homelessness. Contrary to the perception some people may have, the people living in public housing are not young and vibrant.”

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But that could change with the rebuilding of Dos Rios, now known as Twin Rivers, as a redevelopment project that will include public housing and the role it could play in urban development. Armed with a $30 million federal grant, SHRA is in the early stages of turning the complex into a model that envisions public housing as a vital cog in economic development and rebuilding neighborhoods.

Read Comstock Magazine's article "Rebuilding, Renewing, Reconnecting," featuring the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. 

From PRWeb:

Winners of the Solar in Your Community Challenge, a $5 million competition launched in 2016 as a way to improve energy affordability and expand solar access to low-and-moderate-income (LMI) households, were announced by the Department of Energy (DOE) this week. A project led by the housing authority of the City and County of Denver, CO took the grand prize of $500,000. In total, the winning teams proposed 25.7 megawatts of solar energy projects across the country by 2020, benefiting more than 1,200 households and 18 nonprofit organizations through significant energy cost savings and community-level solar skill building.

Read PRWeb's article "ICMA: Winners Named in $5 million DOE Competition to Expand Access to Solar Energy," featuring the Denver Housing Authority.

From FreshWater:

When Ebony Naylor received her cosmetology license two years ago, she figured she’d mark the achievement by herself. The eight women who had mentored her for a year had other ideas.

“We were just in our normal meeting room, [but] they surprised me and [we] celebrated,” she says.

Naylor and her mentors came together through the Community of Hope, a nonprofit that helps youth who have aged out of the foster care system. From its office near Cleveland State University on Euclid Avenue, Community of Hope works to surround young adults with networks that can guide them toward successful, independent lives.

Read FreshWater's article "A place at the Table: How the Open Table Model is opening doors for CLE's foster care youth," featuring the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.

From HUD User:

The $134 million development [of Rosenwald Courts] relied on city and federal funding, including nearly $61 million in low-income housing tax credits (table 1). According to Pace, the city and the Chicago Housing Authority provided critical support because of the Rosenwald building’s historic significance to the Bronzeville neighborhood and the revitalization of 47th Street. “Without that combined support, this project could not have happened.”

Read HUD User's case study of the Chicago Housing Authority's Rosenwald Courts.

From the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge:

Following the blockbuster commitment of $30 million from the City, the developers of the mixed-income Bunker Hill Housing development are ready to start meeting with the community ahead of their official City filings.

Boston Housing Authority (BHA) Director Bill McGonagle said they have scheduled meetings this month with BHA residents and with the general community regarding the revised development plans.

“We’re looking forward to getting the public review process rolling and getting construction started on what we think is a long-anticipated re-development of the public housing community,” he said on Tuesday. “I think it’s pretty much accepted in the neighborhood that the status quo is not acceptable. We’re ready to roll out the latest plan, getting in the ground and getting this thing built.”

Read the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge's article "Developers, BHA Ready to Meet with Residents and Community ," featuring the Boston Housing Authority.