From Novogradac:
As the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) looks toward its 90th anniversary next year, its leaders are prioritizing perspective.
As it looks ahead to 2045, the public housing authority (PHA) that owns and maintains more than 300 low-income housing sites in Cuyahoga County is trying to look in multiple dimensions at once by bringing in new partners to widen its scope while understanding quality of life from a multitude of perspectives.
From Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority CEO Charles Hillman's op-ed in The Columbus Dispatch:
The Columbus Dispatch, in partnership with The Columbus Foundation, deserves praise for presenting the Columbus Conversation: "Can People Afford to Live Here?" on Dec. 14.
The community forum identified many issues about the affordable housing crisis in Greater Columbus and highlighted many of the innovative approaches’ community leaders are working toward to address the challenge.
From the Commercial Observer:
Up to $3.1 billion in capital financing for improvements will be coming to New York City Housing Authority complexes across the city from private sector joint ventures, the agency announced.
From Yes! Magazine:
Tenants’ rights attorney Jay Rose spent four-plus decades waging legal battles on behalf of poor folks. So taking a job as a legal consultant for the nation’s largest for-profit affordable housing landlord might seem an odd choice. But executives at Boston-based WinnCompanies—which manages approximately $14 billion worth of largely affordable and military housing in 550 developments across 22 states—recently learned an unpleasant fact and knew the organization needed help from someone like Rose.
From the Municipal Housing Authority of the City of Yonkers' press release:
The Municipal Housing Authority for the City of Yonkers is working to help 11 families who were displaced Christmas night after a fire destroyed their apartment building.
The four-story building at 81 Elliot Avenue was engulfed in flames just after 11 p.m. on December 25. Luckily, the tenants were able to escape although 13 firefighters received minor injuries battling the blaze.
From Urbanize Los Angeles:
The new wave of Project Homekey funding could be used to transform a nondescript apartment building in Panorama City into public housing.
Yesterday, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) distributed a notice indicated its intent to purchase the two-story, 31-unit apartment building located next to the Pacoima Wash at 14949 Roscoe Boulevard. The two-story, roughly 21,000-square-foot building was completed in the 1970s, according to city records.
From The CEO Publication:
Joaquín Cintrón Vega, Lucas Metropolitan Housing (LMH) president and chief executive officer, began his journey in his beloved Puerto Rico. He has overcome many challenges in his life, and those experiences provided the lessons that define who he is today—one of the most dynamic leaders in the residential housing industry.
From KOCO 5 News:
There are many Oklahomans like Sherry Crandell who need a helping hand to fill in those nutritional gaps.
"When I don't have the money, and I come here, and I get to shop and pick out whatever I want, nothing goes to waste," Crandell said.
She told KOCO 5 she's grateful for the Food Connection program at McGuire Plaza, and she's not the only one.
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority's press release:
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) announced today a $10,000 donation to the Open Shelter to help support the nonprofit’s move from St. John’s Church in Columbus to a new, 10,000-square-foot facility at 1037 Parsons Ave.
From My Edmonds News:
The Edmonds School Board of Directors, at its Dec. 14 business meeting, unanimously approved a resolution to declare approximately 2.2 acres of property adjacent to Cedar Valley Community School as surplus and then lease it to Housing Hope, which will develop affordable housing on the site.
