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From LOCAL 12/WKRC-TV:

Upgrades are coming to the region’s largest affordable housing provider. Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority or CMHA says it’s starting to address more than $190 million in much-needed improvements. This will impact the lives of families in our spotlight on childhood poverty a Cincinnati Crisis.

Julian Williams showed us around his new place. “Not everything is where it needs to be. Yeah a great many things that are still packed,” Williams said.

Williams, his wife and two teenagers moved out of their Sutter View apartment into a temporary one – because their place is on the renovation list. The new Sutter View complex will have 100 nice units undergo a facelift at the cost of $14 million.

CMHA said this is just the start of a $190 million renovation paid for by the rental assistance demonstration, or RAD, program

“It’s not just bricks and sticks, we are going to make the properties nicer and some of the capital improvements is how are we helping to improve and change people’s lives through bricks and sticks,” said CMHA President Greg Johnson.

Read LOCAL 12/WKRC-TV's article "Housing authority investing $190 million in much-needed improvements," featuring the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority.

From The Virgin Islands Consortium:

"The Virgin Islands housing development’s entire portfolio is set to undergo a major overhaul over the course of the next several years. Robert Graham, executive director of the Virgin Islands Housing Authority (V.I.H.A.), said he and his team recently met with Governor Albert Bryan along with the governor’s territorial director of disaster recovery, Adrienne Williams-Octalien, to review the Bryan administration’s understanding of V.I.H.A.’s portfolio repositioning plan. The plan outlines demolition, relocation, and rebuilding of various housing units across the territory."

Read The Virgin Islands Consortium's article "Housing Authority Plans Territory-Wide Public Housing Demolition, Relocation and Rebuild Over Next Several Years," featuring the Virgin Islands Housing Authority.

From News 12 Westchester: 

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano and city leaders got an inside look Friday at the newly renovated apartment complex formerly known as the Schlobohm Houses.

The Palisade Towers, at 95 Walsh Road, now has a new outside façade and new elevators, along with new kitchen appliances, countertops and upgraded bathrooms.

Joseph Shuldiner, the executive director of the city Municipal Housing Authority, says it was all made possible by state funds and grants they applied for.

"The state had $125 million. Yonkers got $75 [million], so we got 60 percent of the state total because nobody else asked."

Construction is still underway at the Towers but will hopefully be completed in time for the summer.

Read News 12 Westchester's article "Renovated with a new name: Yonkers welcomes Palisade Towers," featuring the Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers. 

From The Virgin Islands Consortium:

The Virgin Islands Housing Authority’s (V.I.H.A.) Board of Commissioners held its regular monthly meeting on St. Thomas and via conference on St. Croix Wednesday. Two major resolutions presented for approval involved entering agreements to begin development of public housing units into affordable mixed finance, project-based voucher, or rental assistance demonstration rental units on both St. Croix and St. Thomas.

These measures fall right in-line with V.I.H.A.’s mission, “To create vibrant, dynamic, sustainable communities so families can evolve economically, and to improve lives and strengthen communities through quality, safe and affordable housing and by providing a myriad of services to empower public housing residents.”

Read The Virgin Islands Consortium's article "Bryan OKs Plan to Build New Housing Units on St. Croix and St. Thomas; Hud Approves Williams Delight Home Ownership Plan," featuring the Virgin Islands Housing Authority.