Restoration of a National Treasure: Grand Opening of Soldiers Home Returns Site to the Service of Veterans
6.9.21
From the Milwaukee Independent:
Members Making News
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.
Mixed-income housing across from Marlins Park wins OK (Miami-Dade Public Housing & Community Development)
6.9.21
From Miami Today:
A plan for new construction of an attainable mixed-income residential development called Paseo del Rio earned the praise of a City of Miami review board.
The seven-story, 182-unit building is planned for county-owned property at 1401 NW Seventh St., across from Marlins ballpark.
The Urban Development Review Board unanimously recommended approval of the project.
Lucas Metropolitan Housing to purchase United Way building in downtown Toledo
6.9.21
From NBC 24 News Toledo:
The Lucas Metropolitan Housing Board of Commissioners has authorized a purchase agreement for the current United Way of Greater Toledo headquarters property.
The building at 424 Jackson St. is more convenient for LMH services, with ample free parking and public bus access.
LMH currently has offices at 211 S. Byrne Road, 201 Belmont Ave. and 435 Nebraska Ave., the personnel of which will be merged into a single space at the new property.
Hampton U mobile COVID-19 vaccine, testing clinics aim to break barriers in Norfolk communities (Norfolk Redevelopment & Housing Authority)
6.9.21
From WVEC Nofolk:
If you stopped by the park at the Oakleaf Forest housing community Wednesday, you’d think it was just one big party.
It featured music, games, and an ice cream truck on the warm spring day.
But the event, coordinated by Hampton University, strived to keep people healthy.
The Benefits of Co-Location for Affordable Housing (Chicago Housing Authority)
6.9.21
From Multi-Housing News:
The U.S. is short more than 7 million homes for extremely low-income renters, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. And this gap, calculated using data from the 2019 American Community Survey, has only grown over the past year due to the economic hardship created—or, in many cases, exacerbated—by the COVID-19 pandemic.