Columbus Scholar House Success Story Featured in The Columbus Dispatch
6.21.23
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Atlanta Housing, City of Atlanta Unveil New Roosevelt Hall
6.21.23
From Atlanta Housing's press release:
Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority and CGI Federal partner with Central State University to create a new affordable housing internship program, "The Collaborative"
6.21.23
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority's press release:
Opportunity Home San Antonio Affordable Housing Projects to Receive City and Federal Funding
6.21.23
From Opportunity Home San Antonio's website:
As part of the local housing bond and federal grants, the City of San Antonio has selected four Opportunity Home San Antonio affordable housing projects to receive $8.3 million in funding.
San Diego Housing Commission launches pilot program for BIPOC 1st-time homebuyers
6.21.23
From ABC 10 News San Diego:
The San Diego Housing Commission Thursday began a pilot program to assist middle-income Black, Indigenous and people of color first- time homebuyers.
Homeownership rates for many households of color are significantly lower than other racial groups. An SDHC-commissioned Urban Institute study of city of San Diego households found homeownership rates of 29.1% among Black households and 35.2% among Latino households, compared with 54.8% among white households.
Grand Opening Celebration Held for Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency's Mirasol Village
6.21.23
From the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency's newsletter:
SHRA recently celebrated the grand opening of Mirasol Village, a transformative redevelopment project which replaces the former 218-unit Twin Rivers public housing community into a 22-acre modern designed complex of 427 affordable, workforce, and market-rate rental apartments.
$100,000 to go toward improving healthy food access in Milwaukee (Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee)
6.21.23
From Spectrum News 1:
About $100,000 is being put toward efforts to increase the availability of healthy food options in underserved areas of Milwaukee.
The City of Milwaukee announced Monday that seven for-profit and not-for-profit organizations supporting health food initiatives received this year’s Fresh Food Access Fund grants.
NYCHA to Move Forward with $1.5 Billion Plan to Demolish, Replace Two Manhattan Communities
6.21.23
From the New York Times:
Tearing down public housing has become something of a national trend, except in New York, where the New York City Housing Authority has held onto its stock of aging buildings even as repair bills and tenant complaints mount.
But that may be changing.
HACLA partners with Nike and Boys & Girls Club to bring outdoor turf soccer field to Mar Vista Gardens
6.21.23
On Wednesday, May 31, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) joined with Nike Executives, the Boys & Girls Club and Councilmember Traci Park of Los Angeles Council District 11 to celebrate the unveiling of a new outdoor turf soccer field in the heart of Mar Vista Gardens housing community to provide more access to sport for residents. The ribbon cutting was followed by a free soccer clinic, made available to children from the Boys & Girls Club.
Two decades later, public housing is once again coming to Boston
6.21.23
From the Boston Globe:
Almost a quarter-century ago, the word came down from Washington, D.C.: The federal government was done building public housing.
A new law capped the number of deeply affordable apartments Washington would subsidize in any given city at whatever existed in 1999, closing the book on a decades-long push against public housing by critics who associated it with crime and concentrated poverty.