The shortage of skilled construction workers is a key factors rising construction costs that have a significant impact on the industry’s ability to provide affordable housing…HANV is addressing workforce issue by convening our partners around job training and job placement. Partnering with select construction trade businesses to understand the skills they are looking for, we’re […]
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In 2008, Fairfax County partnered with the City of Falls Church to adopt an ambitious strategic plan to address the issue of homelessness in the region. The following year, the Fairfax County Office to Prevent and End Homelessness was established to “manage, coordinate and monitor the day-to-day implementation” of the plan, with its ambitious target […]
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CXCT303.3 – HomeAid Northern Virginia is a non-profit organization that builds and/or renovates homeless shelters and transitional housing properties for the agencies who operate them. To learn more, please visit www.homeaidncr.org Watch the video on Cox Connections […]
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The Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance. The National Housing Council. The National Alliance to End Homelessness. As the names reflect, those of us in the affordable housing and homelessness arena recognize that no single organization has all the solutions or the tools to address these seemingly intractable social problems, so stakeholders must collaborate. All of us must gather […]
HomeAid Northern Virginia’s Christy Eaton’s letter to the editor of Affordable Housing Finance: Affordable Housing Finance’s article Threats to LIHTC’s Mojo Loom in the January/February issue correctly argues that the shortage of skilled construction workers is one of the key factors in rapidly rising construction costs that have a significant impact on the industry’s ability to provide affordable […]
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Vulnerable homeless families in Fairfax County’s “Route 1 Corridor” now have a newly upgraded residence owned and managed by New Hope Housing – the oldest and largest provider of shelter beds in Northern Virginia. The renovation was recently completed through a collaboration with HomeAid Northern Virginia, which builds and renovates homeless shelters and housing facilities via the donated […]
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Prince William County will soon be able to provide greater access to services and have more emergency shelter space for the homeless. This is the result of the recent Prince William Board of County Supervisors’ vote to spend $500,000 from Fiscal 2015 year-end savings to renovate the Prince William County Human Services Building and relocate […]
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Former Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs and several business and political leaders cut the ribbon on Youth for Tomorrow’s new Bristow, VA, campus last week. The new 5k SF home, named the Laura-Louise House, can house up to 36 girls ages 11 to 17 who are survivors of sex trafficking. Joe founded the organization 29 […]
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by Christy Eaton, HomeAid Northern Virginia The National Runaway Switchboard estimates that on any given night there are approximately 1.3 million homeless youth living unsupervised on the streets, in abandoned buildings, with friends or with strangers. Homeless youth are at a higher risk for physical abuse, sexual exploitation, substance abuse and death. According to the National […]
The National Runaway Switchboard estimates that on any given night there are approximately 1.3 million homeless youth living unsupervised on the streets, in abandoned buildings, with friends or with strangers. Homeless youth are at a higher risk for physical abuse, sexual exploitation, substance abuse and death. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, approximately 46 […]
