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This week’s announcements by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) include:
- $2.4M awarded to fight COVID-19 related housing discrimination
- RAD Conversion transaction closed in MO to create mixed-income community
$2.4M awarded to fight COVID-19 related housing discrimination
Date Posted: March 4, 2022
HUD has awarded $2,472,310 to help 11 Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) agencies with housing discrimination issues related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The money is coming from American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding, and will be provided to FHIP agencies in California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Demetria L. McCain, HUD’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, said:
“While dealing with the struggles the pandemic has brought, too many residents have also had to suffer through the harms discrimination brings…The funds provided today will ensure that our fair housing partners have the financial resources they need to oppose discriminatory practices in the communities they serve.”
According to the HUD press release, “FHIP agencies will use the funding to conduct housing education and outreach activities and to address fair housing inquiries, complaints, and investigations.”
More information about this funding can be found here.
RAD Conversion transaction closed in MO to create mixed-income community
Date Posted: March 7, 2022
HUD and the Housing Authority of Kansas City, Missouri have closed a Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) transaction to build 62 mixed-income homes.
The new building will be called Sam Rodgers Place, and will have two three-story buildings. The buildings will consist of townhome/rowhouse structures on top of ground-level flats, and one four-story apartment building.
According to the HUD press release, “RAD was designed to help address the multi-billion-dollar nationwide backlog of deferred maintenance in the public housing portfolio and to stem the loss of affordable housing that could no longer be kept to decent standards.”
There will be 42 affordable units, and 20 units for market rate housing.
This is the final transaction of a seven-phase redevelopment plan for the Chouteau Courts Public Housing property.
