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Gainesville Housing Authority (GHA) and Gainesville Housing Management Development Corporation (GHMDC) Update (B)
Explanation
The Gainesville Housing Authority (GHA) was established in 1966 by charter of the City of Gainesville since its inception (GHA) has been committed to advocating and providing affordable housing for eligible individuals and families. GHA works closely with the U.S. Department of HUD, the City of Gainesville, and area agencies and organizations to provide services and opportunities, not only to our residents, but to the entire community.
GHA owns and operates 8 Public Housing properties (544 units), administers 1358 Housing Choice vouchers, 258 Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers, 142 Main Stream Vouchers, 42 Family Unification Program (FUP) vouchers, 66 Project Based Vouchers (PBV), and 27 Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) for a total of 1893 vouchers.
In spring of 2020 GHA along with our co-development partner Pinnacle Housing Group completed the first phase of the Woodland Park redevelopment. The Grove at Sweetwater Preserve is a brand new 96-unit mixed finance development and is the first new development in GHA’s repositioning efforts. We are currently pursing 9% tax credits to complete the second phase of the development with Norstar as our co development partner.
Additionally, GHA operates the Job Training & Entrepreneurial Program for our Public Housing residents and Housing Choice Voucher participants. In 2019 GHA was successful in obtaining a $2.3 million dollar Job Plus grant to expand our job training and entrepreneurial programs for our program participants.
The GHA Board of Commissioners consists of five members who are appointed by the mayor. Generally, these five members have a strong record of success in private and public sector operations. In addition to their role on the GHA Board they also serve as the Board of Directors for GHA’s not for profit corporate instrumentality the Gainesville Housin...
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