The grants intend to “reform and reduce barriers to achieving affordable, economically vital and sustainable communities” with a focus on integrating transportation and housing. For example, HUD is awarding the City of Boston $1,865,160 to aid mixed-income, mixed-use development along with the ...
“There is going to be even more ammunition for the local housing authority to shut this down. Tenants will need to stay diligent and keep putting on political pressure. The biggest cuts proposed were public housing operating funds and Community Development Block Grants, which often go...
Grants to local governments, states, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and multijurisdictional entities will range from $1 million to $10 million. PRO Housing will support communities who are actively taking steps to remove barriers to affordable housing, such as: 1. Barriers caused by ...
Burned up Massachusetts landlords and anti-pot local pols are still fuming with concern over the state’s newly passed but hazy medicinal marijuana law. The law — rolling out Jan. 1 — mandates the opening of at least 35 medicinal marijuana dispensaries, and grants users the right to grow ...
The long- standing HOPE VI program, which had provided large capital grants to tear down and re-build the most- deteriorated public housing and which then came under a fair 180pAtRICK CostIgANmea sure of criticism, was extensively reworked as the Choice Neighborhoods Ini-tiative and taken ...
(HUD). HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) grants funds to state and local governments to provide people with decent housing and economic opportunities. HUD rules describe a process called the Consolidated Plan, where funding decisions are based on an evaluation of needs and...
Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing: Emergency Solutions Grants Program and Consolidated Plan Conforming Amendments; Correction. As part of the process of becoming a participating jurisdiction, states and localities must submit a Consolidated Plan to HUD that identifies the communi...
To this list, we can add urban homesteading, Nehemiah Housing Opportunity Grants, housing vouchers, Housing Development Grants, and other recent variations on the affordable housing theme. While observers of federal housing initiatives may disagree strongly about the wisdom and efficacy of one or ...
Grants The Community DevelopmentBlock Grantprogram allocates federal grant money to communities to develop neighborhoods that have decent, affordable housing.6Thesegrantstypically aid low- and middle-income residents so they can find suitable living environments near employers, supermarkets, or public transp...
The biggest cuts proposed were public housing operating funds and Community Development Block Grants, which often go into housing repairs. This would dramatically affect them.” Horsley said she is exhausted after fighting a years-long battle to stay in her home. “The whole thing is, they want...