New Updates on The Edge

In Practice:
Catholic Charities Brings People to "Higher Ground"
Completed in 2019, Dorothy Day Place is a two-building complex in St. Paul, Minnesota, that combines emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, and a social services resource center. Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis began work on the innovative project in 2013, after the original Dorothy Day Center, built in 1981, had become overburdened. The development provides 356 shelter beds and 193 transitional apartments in one building, and 177 permanent affordable housing units and a "one-stop" social services center in another.

Trending:
HUD Library Historic Document Preservation
In the Trending article, HUD librarian Eric Erickson discusses the HUD library's efforts to preserve historic documents and make them available publicly via HUDUser.gov. Beginning in October 2017, staff have scanned and published 1,750 historic documents, including some that date as far back as 1910 and many that have never been accessible online before. The collection contains material addressing topics such as the establishment of HUD in the 1960s, plans for domestic war housing during World War II, and more, all of which is now available for use by public and private researchers.

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