From the Housing Authority of the City of Austin's website:
Austin Mayor Steve Adler honored Housing Authority of the City of Austin President and CEO Michael Gerber for his work on expanding affordable housing in Austin by presenting him with a Key to the City.
Adler presented the key during his remarks at an event celebrating the groundbreaking for the forthcoming renovations of the Pathways at Rosewood Courts on Thursday, December 15, 2022.
From The Real Deal:
The City of Austin has plans to redevelop the country’s oldest African American public housing complex into an affordable residential district.
From KLTA 5 Los Angeles:
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, aka HACLA, has completed a multi-million dollar purchase of an apartment complex in Crenshaw with a plan of keeping the rentals affordable for decades.
The property is the Residences at Woodlake, an apartment community located at 4555 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
HACLA purchased the 276-unit property for a price of more than $76 million.
From the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles' website:
From CBS Baltimore:
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City said it helped nearly 1,700 residents find new homes this year through the Housing Choice Voucher Program. That's a 30 percent increase from 2021, according to Baltimore City.
There are more than 13,000 residents currently enrolled in the HCVP, a program that helps Baltimore's low-income families offset the cost of rent for affordable, safe housing.
From the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency's newsletter:
The Sacramento City Council recently voted to approve funding that would invest millions into the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency’s Marina Vista and Alder Grove public housing communities.
CLPHA Members Receive One-Fourth of All Awards
The Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority (AMHA), in partnership with Community Action Akron Summit, is launching a Hotspot Lending Program available to qualifying residents in public housing. This program will provide 1,000 hotspots through a lending library managed by AMHA connecting up to 15 devices within one household. This program will provide free in home high-speed access for the whole family. Because this is a lending program, more than 1,000 low-income residents in Summit County will gain access through this program.
From the City of Austin's Office of Telecommunications & Regulatory Affairs' newsletter:
The Housing Authority of the City of Austin and Head of Strategic Initiatives Catherine Crago hosted a reception for Paloma Perez on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at the Henry Flores Education and Training Center in the Meadowbrook apartment complex. Paloma is an Austin native and the press secretary for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and FCC spokesperson.
HUD has awarded $30 million in funding to hire and maintain Service Coordinators who will assess the needs of residents of conventional Public Housing and assist in coordinating community resources. The ROSS-SC awards will go to 111 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) among other entities to fund 135 Service Coordinator positions.
