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PD&R UPDATES
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16 JANUARY, 2024
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CASE STUDIES
Village on Mercy Provides
Supportive Housing in Orlando, Florida
Opened in 2019 in Orlando, Florida,
Village on Mercy is a 166-unit apartment complex serving families and
individuals who are low-income, exiting homelessness, or living with a
disability. The project originated from a broader visioning process to
revitalize Mercy Drive and increase the supply of quality, affordable housing.
The project operates under a Housing First framework to lower the barrier to
entry to permanent housing, without preconditions for credit, eviction record,
or criminal background. Onsite case managers and peer support specialists offer
wraparound services to help tenants remain stably housed and improve their
quality of life. In 2022, Village on Mercy won a Charles L. Edson Tax Credit
Excellence Award in the Large Metropolitan Area category.
Read more at: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/casestudies/study-010224.html
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NEW REPORTS
Resilient Homes Meet Resilient Power Systems: Optimizing
Factory-Installed Solar + Storage
This project aimed to develop a factory-installed solar + storage (FISS) strategy for modular
homes using lean manufacturing principles. FISS integrates photovoltaic solar generation and
energy storage into factory-built housing, overcoming cost and installation barriers. The research
focused on how modular home factories could efficiently incorporate solar + storage to improve
quality, productivity, and cost-effectiveness. Identified barriers included initial costs,
permitting, utility interconnection, transportation, and battery replacement, but the strategy
showed potential for reducing total costs by 27 percent and providing resiliency benefits during
grid outages. Read more at:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/Resilient-Homes-Meet-Power-…
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Housing Technology Series Event 2: Planning for New
Supply
The second virtual symposium of the Housing Technology Series, Planning for New Supply,
cohosted by HUD and Terner Housing Innovation Labs, will occur on Thursday, January 18,
2024, from 1:00–2:30 pm EST. The event will examine how technology affects civic
engagement related to housing development and how state and local governments, developers,
and advocates are using technology when planning for new housing supply. Learn more about
the event and register here:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/event/Housing-Technology-Series-Planning…
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Call for Nominations: 2024 ACHP/HUD Secretary’s
Award
for Excellence in Historic Preservation
The deadline for nominations for the 2024 ACHP/HUD Secretary’s Award for Excellence
in
Historic Preservation has been extended to February 7, 2024! Don’t miss this
opportunity
to nominate worthy projects! Please complete nominations electronically following these
instructions (https://www.huduser.gov/portal/about/ExcellenceHistPres-submit.html) for
projects that promote the use of historic buildings for affordable housing, community
development, and/or expanded economic opportunities; include HUD funds, financing, or
other assistance; meet preservation guidelines; and contribute to local and/or tribal
community revitalization efforts.
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Call for Papers: Cityscape Symposium on Extreme
Heat in
Cities
In 2025, Cityscape intends to publish several articles in a symposium on how to
cool
cities or mitigate the impacts of extreme heat, especially its impacts on low- and
moderate-income workers and residents and socially vulnerable groups. Papers may be from
any discipline but should be intelligible to a multidisciplinary audience. Articles must
be original work not published elsewhere.
The symposium is intended to bring together several excellent,
in-depth research papers that could be useful to cities and other actors seeking feasible
and effective ways to cool down urban neighborhoods or mitigate the impacts of extreme
heat.
Submitted papers deemed appropriate for the symposium will be
peer reviewed and may need to be revised and resubmitted before a final decision on
publication is made. To be considered for the Cityscape symposium on Extreme Heat
in
Cities, papers must be submitted by April 3, 2024. Submit papers to both of the following
email addresses: Elizabeth.C.Rudd@hud.gov and Jagruti.D.Rekhi@hud.gov.
We are also seeking reviewers. If you are interested in being a
peer reviewer for this symposium, please let us know and provide a current CV so that we
can match you with appropriate papers.
Find more information here:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/Cityscape-Symposiu…
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