In Miami’s Little River neighborhood, where housing affordability remains a growing concern, a new development is moving forward with the goal of expanding access to supportive housing. The Healthy Housing Foundation, a subsidiary of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), recently broke ground on a 12-story residential project aimed at serving individuals and families in need of housing assistance, including those …
AHF creates affordable housing
AHF’s Dallasonian housing project, now being remodeled, used to be a Best Western Hotel The AIDS service provider expands its housing program to Dallas DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer [email protected] The housing crisis is a public health problem, according to Imara Canady, a spokesman for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. So the world’s largest HIV service provider decided to do …
Dolores Huerta Mural Celebration At Historic Barclay Hotel
Delores Huerta and AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein Beneath a towering new mural in Downtown Los Angeles, labor champion Dolores Huerta stood Saturday, May 16th, among supporters as generations of activists gathered to honor her life’s work and decades of organizing for workers’ and civil rights. Huerta, joined by members of her family and friends, attended the dedication of Walking …
Op-Ed: AHF’s Low Cost Housing Project A Humane Idea
http://southfloridagaynews.com/Publisher-s-Editorial/op-ed-ahf-s-low-cost-housing-project-a-humane-idea.html This past summer, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation presented the greater Fort Lauderdale community with an initiative to address the low-income housing crisis in the city. Partnering with a coalition of nonprofit organizations, including the United Way, AHF announced plans to break ground on a residential campus for low-income residents in Fort Lauderdale. SFGN covered the story with a front-page …
Affordable housing in Florida: Déjà vu, all over again
As the economy has recovered, affordable housing is again an issue in many parts of Florida. Amy Martinez | 10/26/2018 As home prices rose in the years before the Great Recession, complaints about a shortage of “workforce housing” became common in many communities throughout Florida. Those complaints are back again, with a vengeance. In most fast-growing areas of Florida — particularly …
What Are the Ethics of Gentrification?
BY ALEXANDRA STAUB When large companies move into an area, politicians often proclaim how the new business will create jobs, increase tax revenues, and thus lead to economic growth. This is one reason local governments offer tax incentives to businesses willing to move in. Amazon’s decision to locate offices in Long Island City across the East River from Manhattan, and in Crystal City on …
Rent Limits Will Stabilize California’s Housing Affordability Crisis, Say Top Academics
In recent months, top universities — UC-Berkeley, UCLA, and University of Southern California — have released key research that found limiting skyrocketing rents will help stabilize California’s broken housing market. Millions of Californians are struggling to make ends meet as they face unfair, excessive rents. Each report studied the immediate need and value of allowing communities to implement rent control policies to address their …
AHF Tackles Housing Crisis
Norm Kent The Fort Lauderdale branch of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation hosted a press conference on Tuesday where they announced bold plans to address the low income housing crisis in the city. Partnering with the Healthy Housing Foundation, the agencies on Tuesday addressed the affordable housing crisis impacting Broward County. Specifically, the group announced plans to break ground on a …
Another AHF Housing Innovation Debuts on Skid Row: Micro Home by Kasita Arrives Next to Madison Hotel
On Sunday morning, July 8th, community leaders, advocates and officials gathered with Healthy Housing Foundation Powered by AHF (HHF) to celebrate the delivery and installation of a cutting-edge, affordable housing solution—a ‘Kasita’ micro home—in the parking lot of the Madison Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles (423 E. 7th Street LA, CA 90014). Kasita’s innovative, inexpensive, modular micro home—the first deployed anywhere in California—was delivered by …
Ft. Lauderdale Leaders Unite for South Florida’s Largest Low-Income and Affordable Housing Solution
The Healthy Housing Foundation Powered by AHF, in partnership with an array of community stakeholders including the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, United Way of Broward County, Urban League of Broward County, Mount Olive Development Corporation, have joined forces to collaborate on innovatively addressing the housing crisis in Ft. Lauderdale. Through the development of a residential campus with affordable housing options for …
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