NHPF Quarterly Newsletters

NHPF Receives Two AHP Grants from Federal Home Loan Bank The NHP Foundation was awarded more than $1.4 million in two competitive Affordable Housing Program grants (“AHP Grant”) from Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (“FHLBNY”) to rehabilitate and preserve affordable housing in Newark. Irvine Turner Apartments, with 94 units, will receive $987,055 and Center City Apartments, which has 49 units, will receive $430,000. The organization, in partnership with Citizens Bank, was also awarded a $650,000 competitive Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grant from Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (FHLBankBoston) to create 56 units of mixed-income housing and commercial space in New Haven. This initiative will be completed through a partnership with the city, West River Self Help Investment Plan (WRSHIP), and the NHPF.

A Plaza Borinquen Holiday Story In the Puerto Rican culture, the holiday season is ingrained in the populace form the day one is born, enriching all with values, traditions and the history of the island and its people. All of the residents at Plaza Borinquen are from Puerto Rico and enjoy Christmas time, which is a nonstop celebration until mid-January. Christmas celebrations in Puerto Rico begin very late in November and do not stop on December 25th. The biggest holiday dates are December 24— Nochebuena/Good Night-Christmas Eve; December 25 —Navidad/Christmas; December 31—Despedida de Año/New Year’s Eve; and the biggest and most important of all for the children, el Día de Los Reyes Margos/Three Kings Day—Epiphany on January 6. The pandemic has hit many of the residents hard; for some losing loved ones they couldn’t say goodbye to back home . . .

Our Top 5 Picks in this Quarter Start the year off right with a selection of meaningful media choices—films, TV shows, books and podcasts—to feed your brain and arm you with compassion and empathy as we forward the mission to provide more housing for Americans of low and middle income.

THE NHPF QUARTERLY JANUARY 2022

1. Lead Me Home, now streaming on Netflix, seeks to humanize the housing crisis. Rather than taking a long, deep dive into this issue from a policy standpoint, the short documentary spends just 40 minutes capturing the lives of