From the blogsite of New Albany Community Housing (CHDO) comes another timely reminder of progress:
New Homes Under Construction!
New Albany Community Housing (the CHDO) has poured one basement and set the footers for a foundation for two homes this week. These are the first two (of four) new houses of the current grant. The three-bedroom, two-bath camel back shotgun houses in the Oak Street Historic Neighborhood will be ready for homebuyers this fall.
More information can be found at the site: The chdo - nonprofit housing developer in New Albany, Indiana.
I saw one at 8th & Oak last Saturday..on the corner. I lived at 905 E. Oak St. when I was a little kid. My Dad had a Watch Repair shop in the front room. The location that this house is being built was White's Grocery. That building burned down several years ago. That used to be one of the better neighborhoods in town. Maybe efforts like CHDO is putting forth will make it that way again.
ReplyDeleteThe entire city owes a debt of gratitude to John Miller for his efforts. He has exhibited dogged persistence in pursuit of CHDO's goal of providing quality affordable housing to a segment of the populaton sorely in need of such help.
ReplyDeleteParticipants in the CHDO program are unfairly stigmatized and seen as the first wave of neighborhood decline by some of the program's critics. In fact, because of the wage disparity between Floyd County and Jefferson County, the threshold for acceptance into the program excludes many in Floyd County because even though they earn the average salary here, it is too low to qualify for CHDO houses. These are simply people who have never owned a house before and need help to steady their hand on the first wrung of the ladder, they are not the dregs of society. They want a good future and a good home for their families. They will be an asset to the community and they aspire to a stake in that community.
Very well put..Mr. G
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