Residents say this isn t the first time they ve noticed a gas smell in their homes. Author: Eleanor Tabone (WLTX) Updated: 11:37 PM EDT May 21, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. The Columbia Housing Authority is relocating 24 families from a set of apartments after a gas leak was found on the property.
The gas leak was found by the Columbia Fire Department at St. Andrews Terrace Apartments, which is near the intersection of Broad River Road and St. Andrews Road.
Denise Hodges has lived at St. Andrews Terrace for 20 years. Today, she packed up her car with enough things to last her until Wednesday and then left. I am very afraid. I am very nervous, and I am very uneasy, she said.
Columbia Housing Authority s Vision 2030 plan includes more affordable housing
The Columbia Housing Authority plans to build about 1,500 affordable housing units and renovate existing ones over the next nine years. Author: Julia Kauffman (WLTX) Updated: 6:59 PM EDT May 18, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. 2,900 total affordable housing units in nine years. That’s the goal of the Columbia Housing Authority’s Vision 2030 plan.
On Tuesday, the agency met with city officials to share their plans to improve affordable housing opportunities in Columbia.
Their plan preserves and expands affordable housing units over the next nine years and will cost $500 million. Our Vision 2030 plan calls for 1,550 units of new development that does not currently exist, plus the 1,361 preserved units that we ll preserve through conversion, [which] will take us back to our pre-1999 portfolio of 2,911 units, explained Cindi Herrera.
I am keeping my fingers, my toes and everything else crossed on the basis that we will get this sometime before the end of this month which will in essence allow us to move forward with the demolition, said Cindi Herrera, Senior Vice President of Development for the Columbia Housing Authority.
Credit: Derrick Roper and Calvin Witherspoon, Jr. (WLTX)
In January 2019, Calvin Witherspoon Jr. and Derrick Roper died of carbon monoxide poisoning inside their apartments at Allen Benedict Court. The following day, over 400 residents were evacuated.
The complex, which is the oldest of the agency s properties, would soon be condemned.
Housing Works to receive $795K in federal emergency housing vouchers
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Wednesday that 31 Oregon counties and cities will receive about $12.8 million in federal resources from the
American Rescue Plan to provide emergency housing vouchers for individuals and families who are homeless; at risk of homelessness; fleeing, or trying to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking.
“The economic devastation touched off by this public health crisis has magnified the housing emergency for far too many Oregonians already teetering on a financial tightrope forcing them to balance rent payments against bills for food, medicine and more,” Wyden said in a news release. “Housing is a human right, and this funding from the
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