Harbour House/Eastport Terrace Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant
HACA, as the Lead Applicant, and the City of Annapolis, as the Co-Applicant, are the proud recipients of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant. The $450,000 grant will be used to spearhead a planning process to reposition the Eastport Terrace and Harbour House properties as well as the surrounding Eastport neighborhood while preserving affordability and diversity.
For more information on the Harbour House/Eastport Terrace Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant, click here to go to the website dedicated to this Grant or you can go to https://eastportcni.org
To see the Award Letter for this grant, click here
HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods program leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders, residents, and stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits, and private developers, come together to create and implement a plan that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by revitalizing severely distressed public and assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood, including vacant property, housing, businesses, services, and schools.
The Harbour House/Eastport Terrace target neighborhood is bounded by Tyler Avenue, Hilltop Lane, and Primrose Road to the South, Truxtun Park to the West, Spa Creek to the North, and Bay Ridge Avenue to the East. The boundary includes Eastport Terrace, 84 public housing apartments built in 1953, and Harbour House, 274 public housing apartments built in 1964. Rapid gentrification has put most of this housing at risk but a strong coordinated planning effort will enable the area to capitalize on surrounding investment, preserve its housing affordability, retain its racial and economic diversity, and expand access to resources including equitable access to the waterfront which is a high priority issue for the City. The Harbour House/Eastport Terrace target neighborhood is where the best potential exists to intentionally create equity in neighborhood outcomes and transform the lives of those living within.
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For more information on the Harbour House/Eastport Terrace Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant, click here to go to the website dedicated to this Grant or you can go to https://eastportcni.org
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The Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis provides reasonable accommodations upon request.