HUD Choice Neighborhoods
Overview from HUD.gov:
The Choice Neighborhoods program leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by revitalizing severely distressed public and/or assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood, including vacant property, housing, businesses, services and schools.
Project Summary from HUD.gov:
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Johnstown, PA
Choice Neighborhoods Lead Grantee: Johnstown Housing Authority
Choice Neighborhoods Co-Grantee: Cambria County Planning Commission
Target Public Housing Project: Coopersdale Homes
Target Neighborhood: West End
Choice Neighborhoods Grant Amount: $500,000
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Project Summary: Once the leading steel producer in the United States, Johnstown has a long history as a major manufacturing center. Unfortunately perpetual flooding and the loss of manufacturing caused a steady decline in population. Today Johnstown and the West End neighborhood face significant challenges related to poverty, job loss, environmental decontamination, and crime. The target housing site, Coopersdale Homes, is one of many low-income housing sites in the neighborhood. Located near the historic West End neighborhood and Downtown Johnstown, the West End neighborhood serves as a northern gateway into the City of Johnstown. The West End is situated along the Conemaugh River, and features rolling hills, historic homes, and small neighborhood parks. With a $500,000 Choice Neighborhoods grant, Johnstown hopes to capitalize upon these assets and develop a community-based, bottom-up planning approach that empowers residents to envision a new future for the neighborhood.
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Stay tuned for more! For now, the following resources are available:
Johnstown Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant FAQ
Award Letter to Johnstown Housing Authority & Cambria County Planning Commission
HUD Choice Neighborhoods website
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