MISSOURI - Due to the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has renewed grants for existing local homeless programs throughout Missouri.Â
HUD awarded $39,712,709 Friday to Missouri homeless programs. In total, HUD awarded over $2.5 billion across the nation.
Missouri has 138 projects that the grant will help. Mid-Missouri homeless organizations this grant affects include:
Phoenix Programs, Inc.
Columbia Housing Authority
Housing Development Commission
HUD s Continuum of Care grant funding assists individuals and families experiencing homelessness, particularly those living in places not meant for habitation, located in sheltering programs or at imminent risk of experiencing homeless. Renewing these grants not only offers relief to our local partners but it allows Continuums of Care to continue their work to end homelessness and help keep our most vulnerable neighbors off the streets, acting HUD Secretary Matt Ammon said.
The Daily Herald
During a commemorative service at Columbia State Community College, pastor and lawmaker Rep. Harold Moses Love, Jr., D-Nashville, emphasized Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s greatest legacy love, the strong kind that transcends differences among people.
Love offered a contemporary reflection on the iconic civil rights leader at the Zoom online event on Wednesday, celebrating the life and legacy of King.
Columbia State College President Janet F. Smith and Assistant to the President for Access and Diversity Christa S. Martin, who is also the city s vice mayor, offered opening remarks, while Rev. Trent Ogilvie, CEO of Columbia Housing Authority and Advent Redevelopment Corporation, delivered an invocation.
Residents to be moved out of Columbia s Marion Street High Rise due to safety concerns
Columbia Housing will move residents out of its Marion Street High Rise starting in May due to safety concerns and obsolescence of the building. Author: WLTX Updated: 9:21 AM EST January 28, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. The Columbia Housing Authority will move residents out the Marion Street High Rise apartments beginning in May due to safety concerns and obsolescence of the building.
Columbia Housing says it has taken a long, hard look at its real estate over the last year to determine what is necessary to provide the best quality, safe, affordable housing to its residents. The agency says it expects to build new units and reposition and upgrade some of its current housing stock to meet that goal.
ABC Columbia
Jan 28, 2021 12:29 PM EST
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– The Columbia Housing Authority is preparing to move residents out of the Marion Street High Rise. The CEO of Columbia Housing said the move is meant to keep residents safe, citing several maintenance and safety concerns with the building, which was built in 1975.
Columbia Housing expects to begin moving residents in May of this year, and leaders say they are assessing the needs of each resident to help with the transition. The agency says it will develop new construction replacement units at its carter street property.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - During the 10 months they’ve spent hunkered down in a military barracks turned housing project, the grandson has grown taller and the grandmother has gotten smaller.
Rochelle Woody and her grandson Omari Scott stand for a portrait near the home they share in Washington, U.S. December 9, 2020. Picture taken December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Rochelle Woody has been the towering figure in her grandson’s world since luck brought them together a decade ago when Omari Scott was 6. At age 71, Rochelle now leans over a cane after two recent spinal surgeries. Omari lifts barbells in the living room at night, and hears her praying in bed. She wants to keep a roof over their heads. Their landlord, the District of Columbia Housing Authority, has been seeking their eviction.