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Housing Authority of the City of Austin and CommUnityCare and Open New Chalmers Courts Health Center in East Austin

9.13.23

From the Housing Authority of the City of Austin's press release:

The Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA) and CommUnityCare Health Centers celebrated the grand opening of the CommUnityCare Chalmers Courts Health Center, a federally designated community health center adjacent to Pathways at Chalmers Courts East apartment community, a recently redeveloped HACA property serving low-income families in East Austin.

Closing the Digital Divide — Together: AARP Spotlights 2022 AARP Community Challenge Recipient Jersey City HA's Senior Digital Literacy Program

9.13.23

From AARP:

Most of the older residents of Hudson Gardens, a housing complex in Jersey City, New Jersey, are digitally disconnected. So, when the Jersey City Housing Authority received a 2022 AARP Community Challenge grant to address this digital divide, just getting the word out to the residents was a challenge. 

Your life expectancy could be directly related to your zip code. This mobile unit could help (Greensboro HA)

9.13.23

From WFMY News 2 Greensboro:

Made possible by a $3.7 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, this mobile unit will serve six counties in the Triad – Alamance, Caswell, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, and Rockingham.

From rural to urban communities, the focus is to get healthcare to those who need it most for UNC Greensboro and Cone Health. 

Comcast Gives $50,000 to Advance Digital Literacy in Fort Wayne

9.13.23

From Broadband Communities Magazine:

 Comcast awarded $50,000 today to The Literacy Alliance of Fort Wayne to advance economic opportunity through digital literacy and broadband adoption. The company also announced a donation of 250 laptops to the Fort Wayne Housing Authority, Fort Wayne Boys and Girls Club, St. Joseph Mission, Fort Wayne Urban League, and The Literacy Alliance of Fort Wayne.

Summer program for city teens: Counselor-in-Training project for Chicago HA residents

9.13.23

From CBS News Chicago:

Games, swimming, and summer fun!

That's what nearly one hundred 15-year-olds living in Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) residences are experiencing as part of a Counselor-in-Training Program in partnership with the Chicago Park District.

And as CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reported Friday, life lessons are being learned among the fun.

NBBJ and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers create LA playground (Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles)

9.11.23

From De Zeen:

American architecture studio NBBJ has collaborated with American musician Flea to design a playground on a public housing complex in Los Angeles.

ESI Design, the east coast experience design studio within NBBJ, worked with Michael Peter Balzary, better known as Flea, on the renovation of Nickerson Gardens Playground in the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles.

New apartments at old Baker Heights site has units housing 67 once-homeless families (Everett Housing Authority)

9.11.23

From the Snohomish Tribune:

Families have already been moving into an apartment complex that, for many, will help stabilize their lives.

The Everett Housing Authority opened the doors of Madrona Square. Sixty-seven of the units here give a home to once-homeless families.

About 200 students under the McKinney-Vento Act program will be served, Heather Stults, a manager at the housing authority said. The other 38 units are not subsidized but are considered affordable.

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