The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that 17 communities across the country have been awarded $4.95 million in Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants. HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative promotes a comprehensive approach to transforming distressed areas of concentrated poverty into viable and sustainable mixed-income neighborhoods. Building on the successes of HUD’s HOPE VI Program, Choice Neighborhoods links housing improvements with necessary services for the people who live there — including schools, public transit and employment opportunities.
The grants awarded were selected from among 72 applications; successful applicants demonstrated their intent to plan for the transformation of neighborhoods by revitalizing severely distressed public and/or assisted housing while leveraging investments to create high-quality public schools, outstanding education and early learning programs, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs and well-functioning services.
NH&RA member firm Michaels Development Company was selected as a Choice Neighborhoods grantees.
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