Welcome to AHA
Since 1975, the Housing Authority of the City of Aurora (AHA) has worked to provide affordable housing in the community. AHA owns and manages several housing programs to ensure residents of Aurora with low and moderate incomes have safe, decent, and affordable housing.
AHA also administers the Section 8 voucher program within the City of Aurora.
Presentation of HUD-VASH funding
July 9, 2010 Aurora Housing Authority was presented with housing vouchers valued $436,272.00 to provide permanent rental housing and support services for homeless veterans in Aurora, part of the $1.3 million in VASH (Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing) vouchers coming to Colorado veterans. The Aurora Housing Authority will work closely with the local Veterans Affairs Medical Center to administer the program. On hand to present the check were Congressman Ed Perlmutter; Mayor Ed Tauer; Deborah Griswald, Deputy Regional Administrator of HUD; Richard De Blasio, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Network Homeless Coordinator; and Major General Michael Edwards, Colorado Adjutant General.
Other invited guests included: Amanda Park, L.C.S.W. HUD-VASH Coordinator Department of Veterans Affairs; William Conroy, Director, Colorado Department of Veterans Affairs; State Representative Su Ryden HD-36, State Representative Nancy Todd, HD-41; George Thomas President, United Veterans of Committee of Colorado, Richard Young, Rear Admiral USNR (Ret.), Chairman, Colorado Employee Support of the Guard and Reserve. Bob Broom, Aurora City Council, Ward V; Barbara Cleland, Aurora City Council Representative At-Large; Molly Markert, Aurora City Council, Ward IV; and Marsha Berzins, Aurora City Council, Ward III.
Photo by E. Jerome Ryden