Members Making News

11.28.23
HUD has awarded nearly $25 million in Housing Mobility-Related Services awards to seven public housing authorities (PHAs) to administer housing mobility programs.
11.14.23
From the Cambridge Housing Authority's press release: The Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA) is delighted to announce the fortification of its collaboration with The Home for Little Wanderers (The Home) through the acquisition of The Home’s Somerville Village property in Somerville, Massachusetts.
11.14.23
From WTOL 11 News Toledo: New life for an old hotel began Wednesday with the demolition of a blighted historic south Toledo property. Lucas Metropolitan Housing began the demolition of the old Park Hotel on Wednesday morning at 201 Knapp Street.
11.14.23
From the Housing Authority of Baltimore City's press release: The Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) and Coppin State University (CSU) today launched the Student Housing Initiative, a first-of-its-kind program in Maryland to provide low-income college students with vouchers to live in tenant-based housing.
11.14.23
December 5 | 2:00 p.m. ET Join CLPHA's Housing Is Initiative and the National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) for a webinar on how improving health care access for people with disabilities!
11.8.23
From the Denver Housing Authority's press release: The Denver Housing Authority (DHA), Denver City Council President Jamie Torres and other strategic partners broke ground today on Phase 3 of the Sun Valley neighborhood.  
11.7.23
From Tracey Scott's op-ed in the Chicago Tribune: Amid unprecedented congressional uncertainty and unfinished business regarding a 2024 budget, federal support for affordable housing is urgently needed in Chicago.
11.7.23
From the San Diego Housing Commission's press release: Families that experienced homelessness, like Emily and her children, are now at home in apartments at the newly constructed development Milejo Village in San Ysidro, built in collaboration with the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC).
11.7.23
From CBS 13 Sacramento: Sacramento city and county leaders may be one step closer to navigating the homelessness crisis. An affordable housing plan meant to get people off the streets will create 2,000 units during a five-year plan. On Tuesday, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and Sacramento City Council approved a joint agreement. The city and county will need to...
11.7.23
The Vancouver Housing Authority held a grand opening ceremony Wednesday for an apartment building for youth who are unhoused or have just left foster care. Watch the video news story on FOX 12 Oregon's website.
11.7.23
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: The Chicago Housing Authority partnered with the national non-profit Operation Warm for the 16th year Saturday at the UIC Forum, handing out 5,000 new winter coats to more than 2,000 families with children living in public housing and participants of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program.
11.7.23
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: Samantha Stokes grew up one of four children living under the roof of hard-working parents. Ends didn’t always meet, and she remembers being evicted as a child – something she vowed never to experience as an adult.
11.7.23
From CommonWealth Beacon: The state's public housing infrastructure is, to put it lightly, strained. And it didn’t get that way by accident.
11.7.23
From WLRN Miami: It’s a hard time to be an artist in Miami. Fewer music venues, like Churchill’s, are around for up-and-coming musicians to practice their craft. Rents for artist studios are like rents for the rest of us — they’re going up. Wynwood is lost as an artist enclave. The next areas, like Allapattah, are already pricing artists out. The median sale price of a...
11.7.23
From HACLA's website article:
11.7.23
From the Los Angeles Sentinel: The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) announced on Oct. 11 that it is the recipient of a $3.9 million Clean California Local Grant Program award. Caltrans awarded 42 Clean California grants totaling nearly $100 million for local projects throughout the state. HACLA was selected as one of the 42 recipients out of 230 applications...
11.7.23
From HACLA's website article:
11.7.23
From the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority's press release: The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) Board of Commissioners announced today it has approved a combined total of $64.9 million in new investments that will rehabilitate or preserve 242 apartments for seniors and/or Columbus-area families.
11.7.23
From CBS New York: Some senior citizens in New Jersey who were once homeless will be sleeping in new homes tonight. It's part of an effort to get more benefits to people. There is no place like home. That's especially true for someone who knows what it's like to be without one.
10.17.23
From So Others Might Eat's press release: On Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, SOME (So Others Might Eat), a DC-based nonprofit focused on combating poverty and homelessness, unveiled its newest addition to the D.C. skyline with the official opening of Roberts Residences at 1515 North Capitol Street NE.
10.17.23
From Northeastern Global News: Adelia Argueta had multiple options for attending college — and attending college for free. But when Argueta received that opportunity from Northeastern through the Boston Housing Authority Scholars program, she knew she had found a match. “God put me here for a reason — this school is for me,” Argueta, a first-year student, says. 

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