About half a million families in Pennsylvania lack access to safe,
AFFORDABLE HOUSING. About half a million families in Pennsylvania lack
access to safe, affordable housing. The need for affordable housing
has long-term economic impacts, making it difficult for some employers
to find employees or forcing minimum wage workers to have long
commutes to jobs in communities they can’t afford to live. It also
forces seniors into deciding whether they can afford food, medicine or
shelter.
The Clarion County Housing Authority and their non-profit, Clarion
County Housing and Community Development Corporation (CDC)
collaborated with a local bank to obtain two foreclosed properties in
order to rehabilitate and rent to low income households. The
rehabilitation process resulted in the transformation of two blighted
structures to homes made available to homeless families through a
collaboration with Community Action and Children and Youth Services.
The process of identifying the needs of the community, partnerships
with local banks, the Federal Home Loan Bank application, the
Affordable Housing Grant process and implementation and finally the
collaboration for ongoing services in the community will be discussed.
The Housing Authority of the County of Dauphin is focused on the
increase of affordable housing units in the County. In the current
financing environment, one way to develop new affordable housing is
through the tax credit program at the Pennsylvania Housing Finance
Agency (PHFA). Critical planning steps include land acquisition,
zoning code compliance and finance package. For Cherry Orchard Place
we were successful in applying for funds to develop 49 units of
affordable senior housing in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County.
This webinar will discuss the review of zoning to allow for the most
budget conscious development as well as the critical steps to make an
organization a player in the PHFA tax credit world as well as
partnership options that contributed to more affordable housing
development.
Speakers: Penny Campbell, Leah Eppinger
Moderator: Peter Wulfhorst
AICP CREDITS: 1.25 ASLA CREDITS: 1.25
Group viewing brought to you by the LANCASTER County Planning
CommissionThe LANCASTER County Planning Commission strives to provide
educational OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR PLANNING PARTNERS – professional
planners, municipalities, consultants, designers, engineers, local
planning commissions, and interested citizens. In 2020, we will
continue to provide an opportunity for our partners to join US at our
office to view a mix of live and recorded webinars we have purchased
or registered for from various sources on a variety of planning
topics. Many of these programs will provide AICP CM and ASLA
continuing education credits. Due to site license restrictions, we are
not able to share our webinar access information with interested
parties. For independent access, please contact the webinar provider
directly.For questions related to this event, please contact
717-299-8333 or email lcpceducation@co.lancaster.pa.us.
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