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Housing Authority Gets $17M Boost

nhicityplanjuly09%20004.JPGA $17 million injection of federal stimulus money will help the city rebuild the William T. Rowe building and send aid to West Rock.

Karen DuBois-Walton, director of the city housing authority, made the announcement Tuesday at a special meeting of the housing authority board.

The $17 million comes to the Housing Authority of New Haven (HANH) through competitive grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, popularly known as the stimulus bill.”

HANH has been awarded $10 million for fill-in-the-gap financing to rebuild the William T. Rowe houses.

Another $4.7 million will go toward infrastructure improvement at Brookside, which is part of the West Rock Redevelopment project. And nearly $2.5 million will pay for improvement of elderly and wheel chair access in the public areas of Matthew Ruoppolo Manor in Fair Haven.

These grants, combined with a previous competitive $5 million received for the final phase of 60 homes to be built at Quinnipiac Terrace Hope VI project, brings the total in competitive stimulus grants awarded HANH this spring and summer to $22,210,366.

Earlier, HANH had received $6 million on a non-competitive formula basis for rehabilitation of the system’s vacant units. In all, HANH has received $30 million in competitive and non-competitive stimulus funds.

nhihanhstimbucks%20001.JPGDuBois-Walton (at right in photo with board member Louise Pearsall) thanked her staff for getting the applications in under the pressure of aggressive timelines.”

HANH has had a remarkable run, she said: no other housing authority in Connecticut has been so successful, and she isn’t aware of any of the country’s 3,100 authorities that had attracted so many grants in varying categories under the Capital Fund Recovery Grant Competition, which is housing’s portion of the stimulus.

HANH has the Midas touch, “ said DuBois-Walton.

The total pool is about $1 billion. It is administered by the Housing and Urban Development Department.

Dubois-Walton said the success had to do with the projects in question having been in the pipeline for several years. There was an excellent alignment between the project’s being ripe and pressure on the funds to be awarded, she added.

And HANH is not done. Dubois-Walton said several other applications were pending in the elderly and disabled facilities improvement category. An additional stimulus grant to provide broadband and internet service at some of the sites is also pending.

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