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Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority Nominated as Affordable
Housing Finance 12th Annual Readers’ Choice
Finalist
Special to The Truth
Affordable Housing
Finance (AHF) nominated Lucas Metropolitan Housing
Authority (LMHA) Collingwood Green II as a 2016
Readers’ Choice Finalist for Best Affordable Housing
Developments. LMHA’s 68-unit family housing
development, Collingwood Green II, was named one
out of 34 finalists in affordable housing
developments throughout the country in AHF’s 12th
Annual Readers’ Choice Awards Competition. Changing
the face of public housing, Collingwood Green II
replaced one of the oldest housing sites in the
nation — Brand Whitlock and Albertus Brown Homes —
a group of more than 400 public housing units
built approximately 85 years ago and demolished in
2011.
The $15.7 million
development offers 34 public housing and 34
low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) apartments.
Approximately $10 million in LIHTC equity was
provided by Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing.
Finalists for the
Readers’ Choice Awards were selected between July 1
and August 1, from a pool of 87 nominees from
across the country with criteria which included
community impact, creative problem solving and
innovation. Other finalists from northwest Ohio
include Commons at Garden Lake, nominated in the
category of Special-Needs, for their excellence in
Ending Veteran Homelessness in Toledo, OH.
Winners were selected
by AHF subscribers and will be honored at AHF
Live: The 2016 Affordable Housing Developers Summit,
November 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. For
more information contact Martin H. LaMar, president
and CEO of LMHA, at 419-259-9400 or mlamar@lucasmha.org.
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