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HHS, HUD Announce Eight States & DC Tapped for Housing and Services Partnership Accelerator
Accelerator Will Help Implement Innovative Housing-related Supports and Services for Medicaid Recipients
Housing Authority of Kansas City Healthy Living Community Featured by HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Newsletter
This month, HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) newsletter focused their spotlight on the Housing Authority of Kansas City's Sam Rodgers Place and discussed how HAKC and Kansas City successfully developed and implemented a comprehensive Choice Neighborhoods housing plan that responded to resident needs and culminated in a healthy living community that combined health and wellness with mixed-income housing.
Ballmer Group Awards $1.23 Million Grant to Tacoma Housing Authority for THA's 2Gen Family Engagement Program
From the Tacoma Housing Authority's press release:
Ballmer Group has awarded the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) a three-year $1,233,000 grant. The funds will be used to expand capacity in THA’s successful 2GEN Family Engagement Program, which emphasizes a multi-generational approach to housing and family engagement, stability, and thriving for THA clients. The goal of the program is to create opportunities for families of elementary, middle, and high school students to learn about and practice Social Emotional Learning (SEL) together.
Housing Is 360: The Latest in Cross Sector News (February 8, 2024)
From Health Affairs: Experimental Evidence Shows That Housing Vouchers Provided Measurable Benefits, Including Parent Stress Reduction
From Health Affairs:
House Tax Bill’s Child Tax Credit Provisions Could Lift 400,000 Children Above the Poverty Line
Bill Will Also Help an Additional 3 Million Low-Income Children
Services and subsidized housing for young adults coming through Bremerton HA project
From the Kitsap Sun:
A Warren Avenue property near downtown Bremerton, across from Kitsap Community Resources' home and once the site of three abandoned houses and a small commercial building, is now the site of an apartment building soon to become a Bremerton Housing Authority-owned housing option for disadvantaged young people.
Chicago HA’s LevelUp program celebrates 45 graduates who earned a total of $296,262
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
Chicago Housing Authority residents who participated in the “LevelUp” wealth-building program received their certificates of completion and celebrated economic power Saturday at a ceremony at the Charles A. Hayes Family Investment Center.
Opportunity Home San Antonio Affiliate Secures Grant for Development Near South Texas Medical Center
From Opportunity Home San Antonio's press release:
The San Antonio Housing Facility Corporation, an Opportunity Home affiliate, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation, a fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, to ensure completion of the Snowden Senior Apartments project by January 2025.