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The Longview Housing Authority, in concert with the Cities of Longview and Kelso, formed a consortium to address affordable housing needs for the contiguous community.    

The Consortium enables the two cities to receive direct federal funding under HUD's HOME Program to create worthy, innovative, and affordable housing as selected by the respective city councils.  HUD has designed this program to encourage public/private partnerships so non-profit housing agencies receive guaranteed set-asides from these monies.  Locally, the Lower Columbia Community Action Council  (CAP) has been the primary beneficiary of these set-aside funds.  Each city receives its respective per capita pro rata share from this three-year grant administered by Longview Housing Authority.  Nearly 1.5 million dollars will flow to the two cities by the end of 1999, from this source.

Special Needs and Work Force Housing

LHA owns and operates three residential complexes in Longview and one in Woodland.   Harmony House provides living space for the chronic mentally ill.  The Stratford is an old downtown brick building which houses the agency offices, commercial retail space, a community service office, and 20 low-income and transitional housing apartments, operated in concert with Community House on Broadway.  The Blackstone is a stately brick apartment building on the Old West Side.  Woodside West is a market rental apartment complex in Woodland adjacent to our USDA low income housing projects.   Each of these properties mets a specific need within the community while supporting the mission of LHA.

LHA also owns and operates Sylvester Apartments in the Columbia Theater for the Performing Arts.  These are 35 subsidized, low-income senior apartments surrounding Longview's historic theater.  The project won national recognition from NAHRO in 1996.  The agency received funding approval to develop 17 new units for the low-income elderly in Cathlamet.  12 of these units will receive rent subsidy.   These are scheduled for completion in December 1998 under the name of Eagle Pointe Village.

To apply for assistance at the Sylvester Apartments or Eagle Pointe Village, click on the name.

Operation School Days

Tulip Valley Apartments and Hawthorne House in Woodland provide housing for low-income families and senior citizens.  1999 was the Housing Authority's third successful year for Operation School Days, providing 38 new backpacks filled with school supplies for the children living in this development.   In addition, these children are prepared for scholastic success by a Housing Authority tutoring program that focuses on important school subjects as well as english as a Second Language.  LHA was recently the recipient of 6 computers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  This generous donation prompted the creation of  the "Price Learning Center", which opened on September 1, 1999.  PLC along with Operation School Days has a positive impact on everyone living in LHA's Woodland facility.

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