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AP-85 Other Actions – 91.220(k)
Introduction:
Actions planned to address obstacles to meeting underserved needs
Actions planned to foster and maintain affordable housing
Actions planned to reduce lead-based paint hazards.
Actions planned to reduce the number of poverty-level families
Actions planned to develop institutional structure
Actions planned to enhance coordination between public and private housing and social service
agencies
Discussion:
The housing and community development needs assessment that is a part of the Consolidated Plan
provides a basis for identifying obstacles to meeting underserved needs in the community. Many of
these obstacles were also identified in the stakeholder meetings that were part of the consolidated
planning process. The following are challenges for the City of Newport News in meeting underserved
needs identified in the Plan.
Affordable Housing:
• Downturn in housing market
• More demand for rental housing
• Lower-income households with less owner and rental housing options
• Housing conditions, especially for rental stock, needing improvement
Economy:
• Economic downturn
• Poverty rising even before downturn
• Affordable housing and transportation access to job growth
Services:
• Neighborhood property conditions and crime/safety issues
• Demand for housing and services from growing senior population
• Multiple obstacles and barriers facing people in poverty
Resources:
• Decline in resources from US Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as local
and state funding
• The objectives included in the City Strategic Plan are intended to help overcome these obstacles
to the extent possible with limited resources.
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