HAND’s Housing Achievement awards recognize the most outstanding and innovative housing developments, programs and solutions across the metropolitan region. HAND Members submitted their best work for a chance to elevate their organization, stand out among their peers, and share with partners they are contributing to building vibrant communities in the region. We would like to thank everyone who submitted a nomination and we look forward to recognizing the winners at the Annual Meeting & Housing Expo on June 23, 2015!
Nonprofit Developer of the Year
Homes for America
Best Large Affordable Housing Project
Bass Circle Apartments – Telesis
Best Small Affordable Housing Project
Justice Park Apartments – Dantes Partners & Menkiti Group
President’s Choice Award
Walter Webdale, President & CEO, AHC, Inc.
HAND is excited to announce the winners of our 11th Annual Children’s Art Contest, where youth (ages 5-12) residing in HAND member properties showed us “Who Needs Housing?” The winner receives a $250 cash prize, and the winner’s Resident Services Program will receive a cash prize of $250 for administering the contest. Eight runners-up will receive a $25 gift certificate. Congratulations to Angelle Southweill, who will share with us at the Annual Meeting who she feels needs housing here in the Washington Region!
Grand Prize Winner:
Runners-Up:
HAND is pleased to extend yet another valuable benefit to its members through its Annual Summer Internship Grant Program. Eligible nonprofit members are awarded $1,000 matching grants to hire interns to work for their organizations during the summer, and receive meaningful exposures to the various careers within the affordable housing and community development industry. HAND’s grant program supports our members by offsetting the costs of hiring exceptional students to work as interns, while also honoring the organization’s commitment to cultivate the next generation of community development leaders.
HAND Congratulates the following Summer Intern Grant Recipients:
Financial Empowerment In a Thriving Community Development Network finds that financial empowerment is a growing strategy for community development associations. Financial empowerment programs provide strategies to help families with low and moderate incomes stabilize their finances, prepare for their financial future, budget soundly, improve credit worthiness, build assets, and reduce debt.
Funded by the PNC Foundation, the report assesses 18 state and regional community development associations’ engagement in financial empowerment activities. It’s based on interviews with the executive directors of the associations, all of whom are NACEDA members.
Findings include:
Michaels Development Company is one of eight integrated but independent companies that comprise The Michaels Organization, a national leader in the residential real estate industry that offers full service capabilities in development, property and asset management, construction, mortgage finance and tax credit syndication. Named the number one affordable housing owner and developer by Affordable Housing Finance Magazine, Michaels Development Company has developed more than 50,000 units in 34 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands since it was founded by housing visionary Michael Levitt in 1973. From small scale properties to massive neighborhood transformations, Michaels Development has created high-quality, environmentally conscious and financially successful communities that offer affordable housing opportunities to more than 100,000 residents.
They are extraordinary proud of the grand opening of Key’s Pointe, the first phase of the massive redevelopment of a 60-acre O’Donnell Heights public housing site just outside of downtown Baltimore. For years, the city of Baltimore and the Baltimore Housing Authority wanted to redevelop this outdated and obsolete barrack-style housing community, but continually ran into obstacles. Through a collaborative process with our partners at The Baltimore Housing Authority, AHC of Greater Baltimore, and stakeholders from the community, including residents, business and community leaders and neighbors, a comprehensive master plan has been created that ensures Key’s Pointe will be a dynamic, diverse community that will serve families with a variety of incomes. Phase 2 is expected to close in 2015.
Michaels Development is proud to have its Vice President of Development Sasha-Gaye Angus work with many of HAND’s members. Ms. Angus represents the very best of the affordable housing industry. She is committed to providing quality, sustainable housing for families with low-incomes, and is especially focused on urban centers in order to raise the quality of life for those most vulnerable among us. In recognition of Sasha’s achievements in Baltimore, Tennessee, and now Washington, D.C., Sasha was named The Michaels Organization’s Teammate of the Year in 2014.
Michaels Development is new to HAND, but very excited to be part of an association that supports the community development industry in the mid-Atlantic region. The company is expanding its portfolio in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, and looks to HAND as a major resource for information, best practices and networking with leaders in the field.
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