HANO approves $311 million budget
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"Next year, the Housing Authority of New Orleans will spend $311 million to house low-income families and rebuild its storm-damaged, demolished or otherwise dilapidated apartments, according to a budget approved Tuesday by the agency's one-man board, David Gilmore. During the coming fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1, HANO is expected to assist roughly 22,500 families, about 14 percent of the city's households, mostly through Section 8 vouchers.....
- $28 million toward 168 more apartments and a child-education facility at Columbia Parc, the former St. Bernard public-housing development in Gentilly
- $19 million to complete 812 rental apartments at the mixed-income Lafitte in the 6th Ward
- $16 million to build 380 of the planned 410 rental apartments and other neighborhood infrastructure at Marrero Commons, the former B.W. Cooper in Central City
- $12 million for Guste in Central City to rehab the senior citizen high-rise and its 385 apartments, demolish 228 public housing units that have long been an eyesore and build 250 mixed-income apartments in their place
- $9 million for design, planning, outreach and relocation of the large-scale redevelopment of the Iberville development downtown
- Nearly $9 million for public housing remodeling
- $4 million for off-site homes and social services at Harmony Oaks, the former C.J. Peete in Central City
- $862,000 to complete 124 rentals and for-sale homes at the Fischer housing site on the West Bank...."