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This time last year, Matt Mosler, New Life pastor and CEO of Home Again Pine Bluff, stood on a quiet street in east Pine Bluff with his partner and director of Home Again Pine Bluff, Rob Withers, celebrating the near-completion of one of their many renovated homes through their nonprofit, which is designed to take families from poverty to self-sufficiency with affordable home ownership.
On Monday morning, the pair stood in a similar circumstance, this time in partnership with Go Forward Pine Bluff and Urban Renewal. Home Again Pine Bluff will build three single-family homes on 33rd Avenue and Plum Street, which is in the ALICE area, a GFPB affordable home initiative. ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, yet Employed.
Officials with the Pine Bluff Urban Renewal Agency, which lost close to $700,000 in fraudulent payouts, will have to explain the negative audit findings associated with those transactions when their agency is called to a hearing on Oct. 13 with the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.
Pine Bluff City Council member LaTisha Brunson, who has been a faithful supporter of Go Forward Pine Bluff, surprised onlookers at Monday night s council meeting when she blocked a quick second reading of two sales tax proposals that Go Forward officials are hoping to get on a special election ballot in November.