NEWS TO USE:
Spring Newsletter Available Online
Our Spring newsletter is available online. To read the online version, click HERE or on the image above. The printed version is available at the Authority's Central office, 606 Holland Street. All of our newsletters are available to read online. To view and read prior newsletters, click HERE. To be put on our mailing list for the printed version, call 452-2425. For more information on any items in the current newsletter, the news media may call John Horan at 452-2425.
Listen to...
.... Kim Young's recent WQLN FM 91.3 radio broadcast with Erie Housing Authority Director John E. Horan and Board Chair Agnes Priscao by clicking HERE to listen via your computers's MP3 player. The one-hour interview featured Horan and Priscaro on the "Weekend -- All Things Erie" show.The new health care clinic at Harbor Homes and the mission and goals of the Authority were discussed.
We Respect Your Right to Know!
You have the right to request access to the Housing Authority of the City of Erie’s (HACE) public records. For more on this, go HERE.
2010 Annual Calendar
Click on the photo above to view our latest annual calendar offering, which features 12 "recession-proof" recipes, each for under $10, submitted by our residents.
2009 Annual Report Posted
Our 2009 report gives the status on our progress in carrying out our mandates. Click HERE to view the full report.
2010 Goals and Objectives and Work Program Posted
The 2010 Goals and Objectives and the HACE Work Program Schedule can be read online by clicking HERE. This document shows what HACE plans for 2010.
2009 Agency Plan Approved by HUD
The 2009 Agency Plan unanimously approved in December, 2009, by the Board of the Erie Housing Authority submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was approved by HUD April 1, 2009. The plan, which details how authorities will spend federal funds for construction, renovation, programs, equipment, and services, can be read online by clicking HERE.
The Tires-to-Energy Plant -- Vigilance
It seems as if developers' plans to build a tires-to-energy plant in Erie have been dropped. But as we know, things are not always as they seem. Please keep informed about the ongoing court cases involving the plant through your local news media, and read John Horan's letter, in which he opposes the proposed tires-to-energy plant on behalf of the Erie Housing Authority and all of its residents, to Governor Ed Rendell.
Click HERE to read the entire application for the planned Tires-to-energy plant and see for yourself what the plant would spew into the air of our community -- or perhaps Crawford County's -- as outlined in the plan's "plant-wide emission inventory" in section 3.11.
70 Years ...
Read About the Beginnings of HACE
Originally established by City Council in 1938, to address the housing needs of low-income families, the Housing Authority of the City of Erie has had a long and distinguished history. Read more by clicking HERE.
And ...
Read About the History of Public Housing in the U.S.
Read about Erie's place in the national scope of pubic housing. Click HERE.
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Read About the History of HUD
Read about the instrumental role in urban development of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmemt. Click HERE.
Homeownership Assistance
First time homebuyers who are residents of public housing in Erie can obtain up to $2,000 toward their first home. Read about the details and criteria HERE.
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HACE SCORED AT TOP BY FEDS FOR SECTION 8
The Housing Authority of the City of Erie has received a near perfect “Certificate of Superior Accomplishment” – a high performer award -- from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the way it runs the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. Click HERE for story.
The Housing Authority of the City of Erie (HACE) exists to provide
safe, decent, and affordable housing for lower-income families, elderly and
persons with disabilities; and to foster among the residents we serve
economic self-sufficiency, and a sense of community and pride in the
neighborhoods where they reside.
To this end, the Housing Authority, through its admission and occupancy policy, will provide housing to a cross-section of the low-income population in order to obtain a broad range of incomes in public housing and to promote economic diversity resulting from employment.
HACE owns and manages more than 2,000 quality housing units in the City of Erie for low and moderate income families, elderly, and persons with disabilities.
HACE also provides rental assistance to more than 1,000 families for units rented from private landlords through the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program. The housing choice voucher program is the federal government's major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. Since housing assistance is provided on behalf of the family or individual, participants are able to find their own housing, including single-family homes, townhouses and apartments.
The types of housing in our programs are varied. From multi-family units to single family homes, from suburban apartment style complexes to high rise buildings, we have the housing available to meet many low income needs.
But as you will find out while browsing this site -- and please use "News To Use" as the column at left invites you to do -- it's not just about housing, mortar, and bricks. It's about education, jobs, recreation, health, and a whole host of services we provide for our residents.
It's about people.
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