Federal Aid to Help Florida Housing Projects
Hope VI is a federal program designed "to replace blighted housing projects with new homes and apartments." Florida has been lucky enough to receive several Hope VI grants, including two in Orlando and one in Daytona Beach.
Daytona´s Bethune Village, a now vacant Florida housing project that used to house "some of the city´s poorest residents," is one of four sites in the city that will benefit from the $52.4 million awarded by Hope VI.
A total of 421 homes and apartments are expected to be completed by September 2009, including 136 apartments and 39 homes in the new Bethune Village. The Florida housing project will be renamed Pine Haven and will include "a swimming pool, playground, walking trails, and day-care, after-school and computer centers. All units will have central air conditioning and some will have carports and garages."
Other Daytona, Florida housing projects being renovated with Hope VI dollars are Halifax Park and the Martin Luther King Apartments.
Daytona´s Bethune Village, a now vacant Florida housing project that used to house "some of the city´s poorest residents," is one of four sites in the city that will benefit from the $52.4 million awarded by Hope VI.
A total of 421 homes and apartments are expected to be completed by September 2009, including 136 apartments and 39 homes in the new Bethune Village. The Florida housing project will be renamed Pine Haven and will include "a swimming pool, playground, walking trails, and day-care, after-school and computer centers. All units will have central air conditioning and some will have carports and garages."
Other Daytona, Florida housing projects being renovated with Hope VI dollars are Halifax Park and the Martin Luther King Apartments.
