Cambridge Housing Authority Publishes “Stories of the Can’t Wait List” Highlighting Dire Need for Affordable Housing in Cambridge
6.30.21
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CLPHA Welcomes Four New Members: Indianapolis, Memphis, New Orleans, and Prince George’s County, MD
6.30.21
CLPHA is pleased to announce four new public housing authority members:
Fort Worth Housing Solutions Unveils Plan for 339-Unit Mixed-Income Apartments in North Fort Worth Named After Opal Lee
6.30.21
From Fort Worth Magazine:
Fort Worth Housing Solutions, the city’s public housing authority, and the nationally recognized developer AMTEX have completed a deal to build a 339-unit mixed-income apartment community off Westport Parkway and what will become far North Beach Street.
Salt Lake City, Utah: The 9th East Lofts at Bennion Plaza Provides Affordable Housing in a Transit-Oriented Development
6.9.21
From HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research:
Restoration of a National Treasure: Grand Opening of Soldiers Home Returns Site to the Service of Veterans
6.9.21
From the Milwaukee Independent:
Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority Reclaims Place of Trauma for Survivors of Human Trafficking with New Housing Development
6.9.21
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority’s press release:
Cuyahoga MHA CEO Jeffery Patterson and Partners Discuss $35 Million Choice Neighborhoods Grant on Sound of Ideas Radio Program
6.9.21
Affordable apartments planned for Alrosa Villa site (Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority)
6.9.21
From The Columbus Dispatch:
The site of the Alrosa Villa, the once-popular and now-closed North Side music venue where five people, including former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, were shot and killed during a 2004 show, is slated to become the home of 180 affordable apartment units.
The Columbus City Council is expected to vote Monday on using $2.175 million from the city's Affordable Housing Bond Fund for the apartments to be built at the site at 5055 Sinclair Rd.
Columbus MHA to receive $21 million in federal funds for emergency housing vouchers for homeless
6.9.21
From The Columbus Dispatch:
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority will be using $21 million in new federal money to pay for emergency vouchers to house 298 homeless families.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the money as part of $5 billion being distributed nationwide for housing the homeless.
Early learning program emphasizes teaching moments are everywhere, even in the syrup (King County Housing Authority)
6.9.21
From KUOW Public Radio:
On a sunny Saturday morning, a dozen moms and dads sat around tables in a White Center elementary school library, looking at a PowerPoint slide of a little boy pouring syrup on his pancakes.
"What do you think would happen if I said nothing at all? How much would he put on there?" asked speaker Kellie Morrill, director of the Educare of Greater Seattle P-3 campus.
"Way too much," the parents replied.