HUD Archives: News Releases


HUD No. 03-23-2011
Joseph Phillips
(678) 732-2943
For Release
Wednesday
March 23, 2011

SALISBURY AWARDED $170,000 TO TRANSFORM CIVIC PARK APARTMENTS

GREENSBORO, NC - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Southeast Regional Administrator Ed Jennings Jr., joined Mayor Pro Tem Maggie A. Blackwell today to announce that Salisbury is among 17 cities to be awarded the first Planning Grant funding through the Department's new Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. Two North Carolina cities, Salisbury and Wilmington will receive $170,000 and $200,000 respectively to transform Civic Park Apartments and Hillcrest into new viable and sustainable mixed-income neighborhoods (see attached project summary).

The communities awarded funding today will share a total of $4 million in Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grants while six other communities are selected as finalists to compete for approximately $61 million in Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grants (see attached lists).

HUD's new Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CN) will promote 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 will link housing improvements with a wider variety of public services including schools, public transit and employment opportunities.

"Today, we turn a new page in the way we tackle intergenerational poverty," said Jennings. "President Obama has said that there is no greater economic policy than one that invests in our children's future and helps America out-educate the world. But that's not possible if we leave a whole generation of children behind in our poorest neighborhoods. The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative expands on the bipartisan success of the HOPE VI program by recognizing that we must link affordable housing with a mix of incomes and uses with quality education, public transportation, good jobs and safe streets."

The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative is a centerpiece of the Obama Administration's interagency Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative - a collaboration between the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Education, Justice, Treasury and Health and Human Services to support the ability of local leaders from the public and private sectors and attract the private investment needed to transform distressed neighborhoods into sustainable, mixed-income neighborhoods with the affordable housing, safe streets and good schools every family needs.

HUD received 119 submissions for CN Planning Grants and 42 submissions from communities seeking CN Implementation Grants. Successful Planning Grant applicants demonstrated their intent to transform 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. HUD focused on directing resources to address three core goals - housing, people and neighborhoods.

The 17 communities awarded CN Planning Grants will use the funding to build the capacity they need to get them ready to undertake a successful neighborhood transformation to create a choice neighborhood. These grants will enable these communities create a comprehensive "Transformation Plan," or road map, to transforming distressed public and/or assisted housing within a distressed community. This Federal support provides a significant incentive for the local community to take critical steps to create viable neighborhood transformation.

The six finalists for CN Implementation Grants have already undertaken the comprehensive local planning process and are ready to move forward with their Transformation Plan to redevelop their target neighborhoods. HUD will publish a second Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) shortly to give these finalists the opportunity to assemble and submit a more detailed application for the approximately $61 million in available funding.  HUD will award these grants by the end of September.

Congress approved the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative with the passage of HUD's FY 2010 budget, allowing HUD to use $65 million in funding to provide competitive grants to assist in the transformation, rehabilitation and preservation of public housing and privately owned HUD-assisted housing. CN builds on the successes and lessons of HUD's HOPE
VI program and widened the traditional pool of eligible applicants by allowing, in addition to public housing authorities, local governments, nonprofit organizations and for-profit developers (who apply jointly with a public entity) to apply.

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Choice Neighborhood Planning Grantees

AWARDEE

CITY

STATE

EXISTING PUBLIC AND/OR ASSISTED HOUSING SITE

NEIGHBORHOOD/
AREA OF TOWN

AMOUNT FUNDED

Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority

 

Buffalo

 

NY

Commodore Perry Homes & Woodson Gardens

Commodore Perry Homes

$250,000

Community Action Project of Tulsa County, Inc.

Tulsa

OK

Brightwater Apartment Complex

Eugene Field Neighborhood

$250,000

Housing Authority of Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City

MO

Chouteau Courts

Paseo Gateway

$250,000

Housing Authority of the City of Albany

Albany

GA

McIntosh Homes

West Central Albany

$250,000

Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta

Atlanta

GA

University Homes

Atlanta University Center/Westside of Atlanta

$250,000

Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk

Norwalk

CT

Washington Village

South Norwalk

$250,000

Housing Authority of the City of Salisbury, NC

Salisbury

NC

Civic Park Apartments

Westend

$170,000

Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington, NC

Wilmington

NC

Hillcrest

Southside

$200,000

Jackson Housing Authority

Jackson

TN

Allenton Heights

Allenton Heights Redevelopment District

$167,000

Jersey City Housing Authority

Jersey City

NJ

Montgomery Gardens

McGinley Square - Montgomery Corridor

$250,000

Jubilee Baltimore, Inc.

Baltimore

MD

Pedestal Gardens

Central West Baltimore

$213,000

Memphis Housing Authority

Memphis

TN

Foote Homes

Vance Avenue Neighborhood

$250,000

Mt. Vernon Manor, Inc.

Philadelphia

PA

Mt. Vernon Manor Apartments

Mantua

$250,000

Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority

Norfolk

VA

Tidewater Park Gardens

Expanded St. Paul's Area

$250,000

Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments

Shreveport

LA

Galilee Majestic Arms; Naomi D. Jackson Height

Allendale; Ledbetter Heights

$250,000

Providence Housing Authority

Providence

RI

Manton Heights

Olneyville

$250,000

San Antonio Housing Authority

San Antonio

TX

Wheatley Courts

Eastside

$250,000

TOTAL

$4,000,000



Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grant Finalists

Finalist Names

City

Name of the Project

Neighborhood

City of Boston

Boston

Woodledge/Morrant Bay

Dorchester Neighborhood

Housing Authority of New Orleans

New Orleans

Iberville Housing Development

Iberville/Treme

Housing Authority of the City of Seattle

Seattle

Yesler Terrace

Yesler Neighborhood

Housing Authority of the City of Tampa

Tampa

Central Park Village

Central Park

McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc.

San Francisco

Alice Griffith

Eastern Bayview

Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc.

Chicago

Grove Parc Apartments

Woodlawn

 

 
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