Members Making News

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From WSOC-TV:

 During a time when our area is seeing increased crime and younger suspects and victims, seven local businessmen, executives and entrepreneurs took it upon themselves to do something about it.

They feel like the difference for many boys is exposure and opportunity

And they’re using sports to do it.

From Wicked Local Cambridge:

The city of Cambridge recently announced four local nonprofit partnerships will receive $30,000 planning grants from the city’s Community Benefits Fund.

The fund was established to utilize funding from developers, received through zoning amendments or other agreements, to address the unmet needs of Cambridge residents, particularly low-income families with children.

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From the Jamaica Plain News:

The Holzer Park project on Amory Street is moving forward after the state committed to funding the building that will provide 62 new units of transit-oriented rental housing.

Mayor Martin Walsh and the Department of Neighborhood Development made the announcement on July 23, as the project at 125 Amory Street has already received funding from the city.

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From Next City:

"The need for this program far exceeds available resources.”

From the Asheville Citizen Times:

Growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, Gene Bell learned the value — and the price — of hard physical labor.

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Now, six decades later, Bell has retired after a 25-year career with the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville, including the past 14 as CEO. He spent 20 years before that in the business world.

A new study by Economist Raj Chetty and his research partners illustrates how the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) and King County Housing Authority’s (KCHA) experimental program is helping low-income families relocate from low-opportunity to high-opportunity areas, a move that can greatly improve their children’s life outcomes.

From the Auburn Reporter:

Puget Sound Energy has awarded the King County Housing Authority with a grant to install solar panels at the Meadows on Lea Hill Apartments in Auburn.

The Village at Overlake Station in Redmond, and Windsor Heights Apartments at SeaTac also will receive solar panels.

Collectively, the three systems total 82 kilowatts, enough clean energy to lower the KCHA’s operating costs.

From Connect Boston: Commercial Real Estate News:

Construction is underway on the renovation of Millers River Apartments, a 285-unit affordable housing community in Cambridge.

To complete the project, MassHousing provided $82 million in financing to the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA), through the agency’s Conduit Loan Program. The transaction will enable the CHA to extend affordability for the life of the property.

From Multi-Housing News:

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) kicked off construction for the 244-acre, nine-phase, $1 billion redevelopment known as the Perkins-Somerset-Oldtown (PSO) Transformation Plan.