Meriden,CT : Meriden Housing Authority takes another shot at federal grant on December, Saturday 2nd 2017

The Meriden Housing Authority and the city have filed another application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a Choice Neighborhood Implementation Grant.

Instead of asking for $20 million as it did last year, the MHA and the city are seeking $18 million because two of the projects listed in the original grant request, 24 Colony St. and Meriden Commons I, are finished or nearly completed.

The Choice Neighborhood grant is designed to help implement a plan “that transforms distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the surrounding neighborhood,” according to HUD’s website.

In Meriden, the Choice Neighborhood has been defined as “six census tracts centered (on) the city’s historic downtown containing the targeted Mills public housing complex,” the application reads.

In 2015, HUD received 33 applications for implementation grants. Five communities — Atlanta, Georgia; Kansas City, Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Sacramento, California — were selected to receive nearly $30 million each.

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Meriden Housing Authority takes another shot at federal grant