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.
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.
From the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino's press release:
More than 400 individuals and families in San Bernardino County will have the ability to call a place home, thanks to the new Emergency Housing Voucher program funded by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021.
From WANE 15:
The Posterity Scholars House (PSH) held a grand opening Wednesday to celebrate its new innovative, energy efficient housing.
The 44-unit apartment community is designed for project-based Section 8 vouchered single parents who are enrolled in college or a certification program in order to break the cycle of poverty.
Cleveland’s Scholar House Modeled after Successful CLPHA Member Communities in Louisville, KY and Columbus, OH
From the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority's press release:
From the Fort Worth Report:
Millions of dollars in Tarrant County are waiting to be used for rent relief.
Together, Tarrant County and the cities of Fort Worth and Arlington received a combined $63 million to give tenants and landlords for rent and utilities. Tarrant County has allocated nearly $852,000 of its $24 million available funds. The county is set to receive an additional $19 million from the federal government in the coming weeks.
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority plans to build a new senior housing complex on a city-owned parking lot west of Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine.
Called Logan Commons, the planned three-story residential development would consist of 42 one-bedroom units, ranging from 565-666 square feet, with a 6,000-square-foot senior center on the first floor.
From the St. Thomas Source:
The Virgin Islands Department of Human Services has announced it has partnered with the Virgin Islands Housing Authority to implement the territory’s first housing assistance program for youth who have left (aged out of) the foster care system and are at risk of becoming homeless. This is especially great news during Foster Care Awareness Month.
From TAP into Paterson:
The Housing Authority of the City of Paterson gave a project at the historic Argus Mill site in the Great Falls Historic District a boost Monday when they approved a resolution calling for the issuance of 52 project based vouchers that will allow the Authority to supplement the rental payments for those residents.