Archive
September/October 2020
Volume 77, Issue 5
The Housing Authority of the City of Yuma (HACY) wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Resident and Client Services for the SHINE Mentor program.
Our immediate efforts must be to address the pandemic and related damage. Congress and HUD then must set the framework so that PHAs and their partners can ratchet up housing assistance efforts.
The San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Resident and Client Services for the Walking School Bus program, which creates a safe route for students to walk to school.
This article invites all housing professionals to understand the relationship between the early public housing program and the racial inequity in America today.
The Housing Authority of the City of New Britain (NBHA) wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Client and Resident Services for hosting a paint night for the housing authority’s parenting club.
July/August 2020
Volume 77, Issue 4
In 2018, the HOC opened The Lindley in Chevy Chase to provide much-needed affordable housing for the community.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide together how to spend part of a public budget.
The Aurora Housing Authority (AHA) wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Project Design for its innovative family and senior units in the Village at Westerly Creek development.
The Los Angeles County Development Authority wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Project Design for its thoughtful development of the Liberty Community Plaza.
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Project Design for partnering with the Colerain Township to revitalize a blighted area and develop innovative senior ho
Wheatley Park Senior Living was part of the third and final redevelopment phase to transform Wheatley Courts into East Meadows through a HUD Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant.
The Housing Authority of Salt Lake City wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Project Design for developing 9th East Lofts Apartments, a mixed-use Transit-Oriented Development (TOD).
May/June 2020
Volume 77, Issue 3
National CORE wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Community Revitalization for redeveloping the Arrowhead Grove neighborhood.
Metro West Housing Solutions wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Community Revitalization for transforming a vacant office building into a high-quality affordable housing development.
The Houston Housing Authority wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Community Development for the “See Something, Say Something” program.
Housing Catalyst wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Community Revitalization for creating a new community by rehabilitating and combining three properties.
March/April 2020
Volume 77, Issue 2
A quick interview with a student whose affordable housing question was chosen for the February #Demdebate on Twitter.
The Cook Inlet Housing Authority won a 2019 Award of Excellence for building a mixed-use and mixed-income development that brings affordable, independent opportunities to east Anchorage.
Metro West Housing Solutions wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Affordable Housing for the Fifty-Eight Hundred development.
Mica O'Brien and Susan J. Popkin from Urban Institute discuss the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and how public housing authorities are supporting their residents.
New Hope Housing wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Affordable Housing for developing its first mixed-use transit-oriented development in Houston, Texas.
January/February 2020
Volume 77, Issue 1
The Saint Paul Public Housing Agency (PHA) wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Administrative Innovation for forging a 25-year community solar garden agreement to offset electric costs.
The East Greenwich Housing Authority wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Administrative Innovation for becoming an AmeriCorps host site to provide more administrative support for their residents.
The King County Housing Authority (KCHA) wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Administrative Innovation for developing an online rent increase system.
The Everett Housing Authority (EHA) wins a 2019 Award of Excellence in Administrative Innovation for an online Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) recertification process.
November/December 2019
Volume 76, Issue 6
September/October 2019
Volume 76, Issue 5
NAHRO presents the 2019 Awards of Excellence recipients.
See the 13 beautiful works of art that will be featured in the 2020 “What Home Means to Me” calendar.
Housing Catalyst wins a 2018 Award of Excellence in Project Design for the Village on Redwood project.
July/August 2019
Volume 76, Issue 4
New National Initiative Provides Scholarships, Internships to Low-Income Students
May/June 2019
Volume 76, Issue 3
Local organizations band together to create new affordable housing, stem the tide of displacement, and jumpstart revitalization.
U.S. Latino communities are marked by unaffordable housing, high risk for eviction, and high risk for and displacement and gentrification. But there's also good news.
Housing can be a critical platform and portal for early learning, sustained school success, and economic wellbeing.
We commissioners are in a unique and powerful position to advocate on behalf of our housing agency and the work it does in our community.
Two housing authorities and their local partners turn blighted lots into new homes.
WHA's community center brings stakeholders together and provides much-needed services in a single, central location.
HANC and their partners helped reverse years of disinvestment, population decline, and blight by reinvesting in their community and inspiring others to do the same.
March/April 2019
Volume 76, Issue 2
How one housing authority saved money, increased capacity and raised staff morale.
PHAs and service providers use housing as a platform for delivering services to families.
CIHA transforms a former gentleman's club into affordable housing.
The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County wins a 2019 Award of Excellence for partnering with a private organization to create a financing structure to fund new affordable housing.
VHA and its partners collaborate on holistic housing and supportive services.
Market snapshot and new borrowing trends in the affordable housing industry.
January/February 2019
Volume 76, Issue 1
November/December 2018
Volume 75, Issue 6
Access to education can help break the cycle of poverty, so HACP provided books for its kids.
The Oakwood Senior Apartments expanded the community’s supply of assisted housing for seniors.
A mobile grocery store provided residents with access to fresh and healthy food.
The Health Navigators program provides mental health education, resources, and doctor referrals.
CMHA partnered with stakeholders to give small businesses a chance to compete.
RHA installed energy-saving solar panels and educated youth about energy conservation.
NEOHA built a distinctive affordable apartment complex on a uniquely shaped lot of land.
HACSB built a new affordable housing community for multigenerational families and seniors.
HACSB built an affordable mixed-use community – and provided job training while they did it.
September/October 2018
Volume 75, Issue 5
Three days of education, networking, and inspiration.
Delegates from all over the world convened to discuss the New Urban Agenda.
LCHA convened a panel of stakeholders to address community race relations.
July/August 2018
Volume 75, Issue 4
FWHS created a permanent supportive housing community to serve the chronically homeless.
May/June 2018
Volume 75, Issue 3
Award of Excellence winner prepares staff for leadership and provides professional development.
Awards of Excellence winner for trauma-informed communication to assist the homeless.
In the second part of her series on implicit bias, Lisa Baker discusses redlining and more.
Looking back at 2017, a theme became clear: transition.
Meet the housing and community development professionals who will lead NAHRO for the next two years.