Focus on Denver: award-winning PHA Program
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The Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver was one of the recipients of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's second annual Public Housing Agency Performance Awards. The award was for the Home Ownership Program in the Upper Lawrence Cooperative of the Curtis Park Neighborhood. The Curtis Park Project consists of 44 Victorian-style homes, renovated from former row-house project buildings. Each sells for $18,800 to current public housing tenants. The purpose of the project is to create a community, improve neighborhood appearance, and instill a sense of upward mobility for project tenants. Each new owner receives training in home ownership. The overall purpose of the plan is to encourage more home ownership programs, more aggressive and dispersed programs, renovation of existing public housing, selling finished units with training programs, and soliciting private and public sector cooperation.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1987
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Focus on ... Vantage Glen
Article Abstract:
Vantage Glen is a recently completed mobile home park near Seattle, Washington which provides low-income senior citizens with a beautiful environment. The mobile home park was made possible by purchase of the site by the county, the use of tax-exempt bond anticipation notes, and rigid design standards. The fact that a public non-profit agency will manage the park will ensure that rents will be protected from market conditions. Vantage Glen demonstrates how housing agencies can create housing developments in an era when federal housing subsidies are seldom available. It also shows that agencies which cannot acquire federal or local funding have five additional resources: Community Development Block Grant funds, manufactured housing, tax-exempt financing, and exemption from property taxes.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1986
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An empirical analysis of retailer participation decisions in a downtown parking coupon program
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Retailer participation in parking coupon programs varies with the number of competitors, chain membership and store vintage. The study reveals however, that participation is high for stores in shopping centers, for stores receiving subsidies for parking coupons and for stores selling comparison-shopping goods with overall effects of increased participation good for the community.
Publication Name: Journal of Regional Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0022-4146
Year: 1998
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