Funding for eligible projects under this initiative includes a $2 million grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and financial assistance from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) through its Multifamily Rental Housing Program. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) and the Maryland Department of Disabilities (MDOD) have partnered to qualify eligible households, refer potential tenants to property managers, and to ensure that these units remain occupied.
The units at Rivers Edge represent a unique combination of artist preference apartment homes and fully accessible units offered under the Weinberg program. The development was created on a piece of property which was formerly an unfinished construction of condominiums which lay vacant for some time before the project's inception. The project not only provides homes for those most in need but also reinvigorated a formerly unused space at the water's edge in Salisbury.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation continues to change Maryland for the better by showing their commitment to increasing affordable housing in Maryland and assisting many residents toward a more economically stable future. The Department joined staff from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Bay Area CIL, the Developmental Disabilities Administration, Osprey Property, Inc., United Needs and Abilities, Wicomico County, and Foundations Care Management to recognize The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and present the citation. Secretary Beatty was pleased to welcome several elected officials and their representatives including City Councilman,Tim Spies; along with representatives from Congressman Harris, Senator Mathias, Delegate Anderton, and Mayor Ireton's offices.
To read more about this initiative and other ways the Department of Disabilities is working to increase affordable housing opportunities in Maryland please go to our website at www.mdod.maryland.gov.
Really???
ReplyDeleteSo we get public funding and grants to build so called ART studios which are really "low Income" housing ie Section 8, which are rent subsidized by the state. so the developer "Osprey" gets government money to build housing which is rent subsidized by the Government. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteOn top of that all of the players have a big celebration celebrating themselves for gaming the system and the politicians try to make hay out of it.
Don't you just love it.
It was that or straight Section 8 and voucher housing with no redeeming qualities. The move was on and the.deck stacked.
ReplyDeleteThe Weinberg family takes credit for this mess? Same as they do for MAC on Progress Avenue , very socialistic and Liberal . This crap makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteit will become a high rise dope den and center of prostitution on the west side of salisbury,competing with east church street what a waste of taxpayers money and low income for the handicapped??? where are the elevators?
ReplyDeleteThis is a joke. I know of a person who is not an artist nor disabled.
ReplyDeleteThey work full time and also receives a pension as they are retired from a previous job. How did this person qualify to live in this development?
I guess I'm crazy - thought this was to promote artists. Another bait and switch for which Wicomico is so well known. One year and it will look like a ghetto.
ReplyDeleteThat whole project is pure baloney.Section 8 disguised as a "artists rental".I guess if some of the kids that live there like to paint or color,its an "art studio".
ReplyDeleteElitists controlling the masses.
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