POAH - Preservation of Affordable Housing

POAH continues advocacy efforts for affordable housing programs at state and federal level

POAH's Managing Director of Development Rodger Brown delivered testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government in support of the creation of more affordable housing.

POAH President Amy Anthony delivered testimony on the need for housing programs funded under the Massachusetts Housing Bond Bill before the Legislature's Joint Committee on Housing April 4. In February, POAH sent a letter to members of Congress from districts where it has properties warning against the sequester (the automatic reductions triggered under the Budget Control Act passed in 2011). POAH also joined Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future's efforts in Congress to protect affordable housing programs, submitting comments to two tax reform working groups of the House Ways and Means Committee.

POAH hosted a press conference at one of its New Hampshire properties during National Community Develoment Week. watch Claremont Mayor James Neilsen in the 30 second video

Reports of interest

Housing America's Future: New Directions for National Policy by the Bipartisan Policy Center Housing Commission read the report

National Low Income Housing Coalition
Affordable Housing Generates Jobs and Investments

New Study Reveals Incomes and Rent Burdens of LIHTC Households: by Katherine O'Regan, Associate Professor at NYU Wagner Graduate School and the Furman Center and Keren Horn, Assistant Professor of Economics at UMass Boston, describes the income and rent burdens of tenants living in LIHTC properties.

POAH continues greening

Big Reach

POAH President Amy Anthony (center) signs Big Reach agreement with Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future which commits POAH to reducing water and energy use across the portfolio by 20% by 2020. on left is POAH's Director of Energy Management Toby Ast and on right is POAH's Director of Design and Technical Services Julie Klump

Kenmore Abbey

POAH's Woodlawn Center South received a 2013 Residential Energy Efficiency award from the State and Local Energy Report. read about it

8330 On The River in Detroit MI a 280-unit high rise building on the Detroit river was clad with an insulated metal panel system that will significantly improve the building's thermal performance

architect Fusco, Shaffer & Pappas,Inc.photo: Christopher Lark, Inc.

8330

Less than a mile from the Bourne Bridge at the gateway of Cape Cod, the Clay Pond Cove development includes its own wastewater treatment plant which will serve the Canal Bluffs residential community and the abutting retail shopping center. The plant will protect the environmentally-sensitive Phinney Harbor watershed area. read more

Salem Heights Solar

Salem Heights, Salem, MA In the winter, air between the plastic panels (outermost skin) and the aluminum wall behind it will be heated by the sun and ducted to the makeup air unit that provides fresh air to the corridors. The project was partially funded by the TD Charitable Foundation.