CSB Recognized by Local HUD office

 

A recognition event sponsored by the Franklin County Commissioners, the City of Columbus, the local U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office, and the Community Shelter Board was held on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 to recognize our community's recent successful application for HUD Continuum of Care funding.  County Commissioner Dewey Stokes, and Columbus City Council members Matt Habash and Charleta Tavares were in attendance.  Projects that received funding in 2002 were honored.

 

The event was held at the Commons at Grant, our community’s top-ranked project on the 2002 Continuum of Care application.  The Commons at Grant is a 100-unit, affordable downtown apartment community, located on a 1.2 acre site at the northeast corner of Grant Avenue and Fulton Street in downtown Columbus.  Fifty (50) apartment units will be available to those individuals whose annual earnings are less than 60% of the area median income (approximately $24,000).  The remaining fifty (50) units will be designated as part of the Community Shelter Board's "Rebuilding Lives" initiative, and will offer permanent, supportive housing for 50 formerly homeless men and women (these fifty units will be affordable to residents whose earning are at or below 30% of the area median income).  The Commons at Grant is scheduled to open in July 2003.

 

Tom Leach, Field Office Director, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development presented Community Shelter Board Executive Director, Barbara Poppe and Trustees Timothy T. Miller and Floyd V. Jones with a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of CSB's leadership and ongoing cooperative efforts to end chronic homelessness in Columbus and Franklin County.

 

 

 

Timothy T. Miller, CSB Board Chair, Floyd V. Jones, CSB Board Chair-Elect, Barbara Poppe, CSB Executive Director, receiving a Certificate of Appreciation from Tom Leach, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Field Office Director.

 

2002 Continuum of Care funded projects are as follows: