$6M invested for Corktown community benefits, Ford says
Ford Motor Co. has fulfilled or made progress on 36 out of 43 commitments it made on initiatives such as affordable housing and workforce development as part of a community benefits agreement tied to its Michigan Central project in Corktown.
So far, the Blue Oval has fulfilled its promise to contribute $2.5 million to a city affordable housing fund, invested $2 million of a planned $3 million for workforce development initiatives, contributed $1 million of $2.5 million to be spent on neighborhood development and invested $500,000 of a planned $2 million for education and youth development.
And Friday, applications will open for a $750,000 home-repair program Ford is funding in the three neighborhoods covered by the agreement.
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With 211,038 crashes in the city in 2019, which killed 243 individuals and injured 61,265 (that’s an average of 578 crashes and 169 casualties a day, but who’s counting?), stopping reckless drivers from killing and maiming is an urgent public-health priority for the next mayor. So Streetsblog asked those who would lead us out of this crisis to detail their street-safety bona fides. Of the 11 we asked, 10 stepped up. (Ray McGuire was the exception.)
This is the fourth of daily rollouts of the candidates’ thoughtful and often-voluminous answers, which should provide safe-streets activists with a roadmap of where the hopefuls stand on our issues (the previous three installments focused on safe streets, “free” parking and a car-free Manhattan). At the end of the series, we’ll post all seven installments in one place for easy reference.
Montgomery Housing Authority celebrates civil rights icon Rosa Parks By WSFA Staff | December 17, 2020 at 1:50 PM CST - Updated December 17 at 6:34 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The Montgomery Housing Authority held an event Thursday to remember civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
The inaugural event was held at Parks Place Housing Community, which was renamed for Parks. Parks, her husband Raymond, and her mother, Leona, lived and were former residents of the house community in 1955.
“We’re here to celebrate, but we’re also here to talk about the future,” Dr. John Knight, Jr., Chairman of the MHA Board of Commissioners, said. “This is an example of what happened many years ago, but we want to bring to the table from the Housing Authority working with the mayor’s office, the county, the state, federal government as well. What Montgomery is all about in terms of Choice Neighborhoods, building homes so that people will have decent and safe places to live.
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In October, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) Board of Commissioners voted 5-4 against the agency commencing negotiations with their preferred co-developer for Greenleaf Gardens. By that following month, however, the Board voted 5-4 in favor, enabling the agency to move forward with the Exclusive Right to Negotiate (ERN) with that co-developer. What made the difference?
Largely, the agency’s efforts in the interim to reengage the community and its stakeholders on the status of the project and the roadmap ahead, which represented a welcome pivot from how engagement has gone up to this point. Here’s how the redevelopment process went from conceptual to doable.