Huntington Housing Authority Investments Over Last 20-years Are Significant

After posting our previous post related to the tremendous amount of investment made in Huntington and Cabell County during the last twenty-years, William Dotson, Executive Director of the Huntington Housing Authority (HHA), emailed me with the investments made by the HHA during the last twenty-years. The HHA investments are significant, and Bill wanted us to be aware of them:

"[Richard], you left out all of the affordable housing work that has been going on, hamlets, parks, Simms School, Fairfield School, Johnston Center, Heistad House, 5th Avenue Apartments, the new units on 28th street, Washington Arms, new duplexes on Daulton and Artisan, and the millions HHA has been spending upgrading our existing properties so that our public housing is decent and isn't in the same shape as others around the country. In addition, there is all of the affordable housing work that has been going on: Hamlets, Parks, Simms School, Fairfield School, Johnston Center, Heistad House, 5th Avenue Apartments., the new units on 28th street, Washington Arms, new duplexes on Daulton and Artisan, and the millions HHA has been spending upgrading our existing properties so that our public housing is decent and isn't in the same shape as others around the country.

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There are two projects outside of town, Pine Haven in Milton, and Lakeview in Lavalette, and there is the special housing built for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, the other elderly complexes, Eden Park, and our place on the west side.

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Many of these projects have successfully preserved some of our most precious structures created by visionaries many many years ago. The work that the Huntington Housing Authority has been doing the last twenty years is significant. We (HHA) are recognized as a superior housing authority everywhere in the country --- except in our home town. Our projects, also, contribute to the economy, and we have been an active player for at least 20 years."

Thanks, Bill, for educating us and adding the HHA's investments of which we, as a community, have been blessed during the last twenty-years.