Spring 2015 Call for Projects
As a nonprofit organization or community in Rhode Island and Southeastern MA, the Community Partnerships Center at Roger Williams University (CPC) invites you to become a Community Partner by submitting an application to its Spring 2015 Call for Projects.
Housing News
March 25, 2015
Please click HERE to view CHAPA's 2014 Annual Report.
March 25, 2015
Across New England, HOME is used to support affordable housing programs for persons experiencing homelessness, seniors, persons with disabilities and other individuals and families with low incomes. It's a uniquely flexible resource, and there is huge demand for these funds.
Since FY2010, HOME funds have been reduced by 51%, going from $1.8 billion to $900 million.
March 24, 2015
Job Description
Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) is contributing to a mixed-method study of housing and community revitalization outcomes of state investments in affordable housing production in Massachusetts over the next year. CHAPA seeks a part-time (12 hours/week) Data Analyst to support its multi-dimensional investigation of community well-being in study communities.
Background:
March 16, 2015
Help Ensure THUD Appropriations Subcommittees Have Highest Possible Funding for Housing Programs in FY16
The House and Senate Committees on Appropriations will decide soon how much funding each appropriations subcommittee will receive in FY16. This funding allocation for subcommittees, called the 302(b), will determine how much money is available for HUD programs in FY16.
Please click here (http://nlihc.org/issues/budget/302b) to sign your organization on to the letter.
March 11, 2015
By Steve Hendrix | The Washington Post
Family, friends and much of Massachusetts’s political leadership gathered Tuesday to remember Edward W. Brooke as a fearless trailblazer who rose from the segregated neighborhoods of the District to set the stage for black political progress as the first African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate.
March 10, 2015
On March 6, HUD issued its Section 8/Public Housing 2015 income limits. The 2015 limits in Massachusetts are generally higher than in 2014 due to increases in the estimated median family income both nationally and in most of the state’s 19 FMR areas. In Massachusetts, the increase in the 80% limit for a household of three averaged about 3% ($1,350-$1,750), rising in 17 of the 19 areas. The 50% limit for a household of three
March 6, 2015
Click here to download the FY2016 budget trend analysis for affordable housing programs.
March 5, 2015
On March 2nd, HUD announced that it is awarding $150 million in rental assistance to 25 State Housing Agencies to help prevent individuals with disabilities from being unnecessarily institutionalized or falling into homelessness.
Massachusetts was awarded 100 Section 811 vouchers.
Click here to read the press release.