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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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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-…

DATASET RELEASES

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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…


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.


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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