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The Keene Housing Authority administers the Community Development
Block Grant Program for the City of Keene.
KHA has prepared
and administered all CDBG
applications and projects for the City of Keene since 1982. In addition,
it has occasionally written and administered CDBG grants for Cheshire
County.
KHA projects have made Keene one of the most successful NH communities
in obtaining CDBG funds:
- $9 million
in total CDBG funds
- 5 housing
projects
- 13 social
service projects
- 9 economic
development projects
- 4 feasibility
studies
Housing projects:
- Part of the
cost of Central Square Terrace elderly housing
- Rehab loan
program to private landlords and homeowners
- Affordable
housing projects for Cheshire Housing Trust
- Rehabilitation
of group homes, and transitional housing.
- The project
now underway is a 19-unit rooming house.
Social service
projects:
- Construction
of an infant-toddler center
- Rehab of
Head Start center
- Acquisition
and rehab of center for children under 3 with disabilities
- Rehab of
Senior Center
- Kitchen,
dining room and pantry for community kitchen
- CAP offices
- A project
now underway is the relocation of two brick buildings for use
at elderly housing.
Economic
development projects:
- Improvements
in Krif Road Industrial park leading to construction of four manufacturing
facilities
- Improvements
in Black Brook corporate park leading to construction of four
manufacturing facilities.
- Construction
of four manufacturing facilities totaling almost 100,000 s.f.
- Three loans
to private companies for expansion.
- Rehab of
major downtown commercial/residential building.
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