{"id":19494,"date":"2021-04-07T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nahro.org\/?post_type=journal_article&#038;p=19494"},"modified":"2021-04-07T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:53:28","slug":"fresno-housing-authority-serving-homeless-veterans-through-housing","status":"publish","type":"journal_article","link":"https:\/\/www.nahro.org\/journal_article\/fresno-housing-authority-serving-homeless-veterans-through-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Housing Authority Serving Homeless Veterans Through Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Fresno Housing Authority won a 2020 Award of Excellence in Affordable Housing for Renaissance at Parc Grove, a housing community that serves veterans, including many who are experiencing homelessness. Nominated from among the NAHRO Award of Merit winners each year, the Awards of Excellence winners are chosen by national juries and honored at the annual National Conference and Exhibition in&nbsp;November. They represent the very best in innovative programs in assisted housing and community development.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California&#8217;s housing crisis is&nbsp;an issue that\u2019s plagued the state for years.&nbsp;As such the&nbsp;state\u2019s most&nbsp;vulnerable populations remain at higher risk for homelessness, including veterans.&nbsp;To address this issue head on, Fresno Housing secured a combination of local and state funds&nbsp;to create an affordable housing development specifically for veterans&nbsp;who are experiencing or&nbsp;are&nbsp;on the brink of homelessness. The agency also was&nbsp;one&nbsp;of the first to use Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention Program funds, which helped leverage tax credits to make the project possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\t<section id=\"block_606628843d2fd\" class=\"mg-block mg-block-ad has-tertiary-light-background-color mg-block-ad--horizontal mg-block--mb-0 p-0\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mg-container py-12 flex justify-center mg-ad mg-ad-16968\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<!-- \/22864345669\/body-leaderboard-1 -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id='div-gpt-ad-1675097277411-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1675097277411-0');\n\t\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Renaissance at Parc Grove&nbsp;offers many amenities and services to help people who are homeless transition to the responsibility of a tenant. The site is located within&nbsp;proximity&nbsp;to&nbsp;a hospital and veterans&#8217; health services, making it&nbsp;an ideal location for the project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A local service provider who specializes&nbsp;in&nbsp;veteran&nbsp;homelessness works with residents free of charge, and property management staff works to create&nbsp;a community&nbsp;environment&nbsp;welcoming to all the veterans.&nbsp;There are ongoing weekly activities and classes on teaching the veterans how to create a budget,&nbsp;job training, and home care. The design features spaces for the residents to gather outside for barbeques and&nbsp;recreation. The idea was to create a community environment to provide a sense of comradery experienced during service.&nbsp;Currently, Renaissance at Parc Grove houses about 40 veterans.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The housing authority says since the site opened in 2018, the veterans served have reconnected with family members, entered substance abuse programs, found employment, and learned more about applying to higher education. While Fresno Housing offers housing units to people experiencing homelessness, this was the first project established just for&nbsp;veterans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The success of the&nbsp;housing program&nbsp;led to both state and federal recognition, allowing the housing authority to secure an additional round of VHHP funding&nbsp;to expand the project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fresno Housing Authority won a 2020 Award of Excellence in Affordable Housing for Renaissance at Parc Grove, a housing community that serves veterans, including many who are experiencing homelessness. 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