CLPHA Press Room

From the San Diego Housing Commission e-Newsletter:

Hosting a group of housing professionals from The Chartered Institute of Housing South East (United Kingdom) during their visit to Southern California this month was an honor.

After their initial stop in Los Angeles, the group met in San Diego with SDHC senior leaders to discuss our respective programs to create and preserve affordable housing and address homelessness.

Read “International Housing Group Visits SDHC” in  the San Diego Housing Commission e-Newsletter. 

From the Vancouver Business Journal:

Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle and the city of Vancouver have been selected to participate in a national problem-solving session on affordable housing and health. “The Mayors’ Institute on Affordable Housing and Health: Advancing City-Level Strategies to Generate Sustainable Solutions” will take place April 2-4 in Detroit and is sponsored by the National League of Cities (NLC). 

McEnerny-Ogle will be joined by Community and Economic Development Program Coordinator Peggy Sheehan, PeaceHealth System Director Community Health Meghan McCarthy, Executive Director of the Vancouver Housing Authority Roy Johnson and Dan Valliere, executive director of REACH.

Read the Vancouver Business Journal's article “Vancouver to participate in national conference on affordable housing, health,” featuring the Vancouver Housing Authority.

From The Columbian:

For the first time in more than a decade, Vancouver Housing Authority will directly help families become homeowners.

A subsidiary of the public agency, Vancouver Affordable Housing Nonprofit, is moving along with plans for an eight-unit townhouse development in central Vancouver. 

Read The Columbian's article “Vancouver Housing Authority makes progress on townhouse plans,” featuring the Vancouver Housing Authority. 

From the New Haven Independent:

The 1980s-era “barracks-like” buildings of Westville Manor are slated to be torn down and rebuilt as colorful two- and three-story townhouses surrounded by more green space, and better connected to neighboring West Rock streets.

City housing officials and a team of local architects, designers, and engineers pitched that vision of a safer, greener, less dense and more neighbor-friendly Westville Manor on Wednesday night to the City Plan Commission.

The commissioners unanimously signed off on the Housing Authority of New Haven’s proposed Planned Development District (PDD) designation for the 15-acre site on Wayfarer Street, thereby granting the public housing developers a key approval in their plans to demolish Westville Manor’s existing 26 two-story buildings and 150 residential units and replace them with 39 townhouses and one three-story apartment building containing 109 residential units. It would be the latest complex to undergo a complete modernization in a wave that has transformed public housing across New Haven, including several reborn developments right by Westville Manor in the West Rock neighborhood.

Read the New Haven Independent's article, “Westville Manor Rebirth Plan Advances,” featuring Elm City Communities/Housing Authority of New Haven.

Artist’s rendering of the proposed redevelopment of Westville Manor, an Elm City Communities/Housing Authority of New Haven community.

From KIMA-TV:

The new Yakima Veteran’s Housing project is being granted up to 150 – thousand dollars to install solar power in the new facility.

Yakima Housing Authority is redeveloping a former Marine Corps Armory into a housing for homeless veterans and will be able to have solar power thanks to Pacific Power.

Regional Business Manager for Pacific Power Lori Froehlich says this grant comes from their Blue-Sky Fund which is provided by customers who pay extra on their bill to fund renewable energy.

“It’s actually customers in the Yakima area who are funding this project with their goal for a more sustainable future and investing in a blue sky," said Froehlich.

Read KIMA-TV's article “New Yakima Veteran's Housing project receives grant for solar power,” featuring the Yakima Housing Authority.