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NEWS ABOUT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AURORA
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AHA News
2024
October 25, 2024 Aurora Housing Authority Announces Change in Leadership
September 25, 2024 Peoria Crossing II Opens its Doors to New Residents
September 3, 2024 Developing Veterans' Housing on a Former Army Base in Aurora, Colorado
February 5, 2024 Aurora Housing Authority Awarded Proposition 123 Land Banking Funds
March 6, 2024 Aurora Housing Authority Launches New Employee Benefit
2023
December 6, 2023 Affordable Housing Development to Hold Grand Opening Event

- August 5, 2023 Aurora Housing's newly opened development for Senior Veterans, Liberty View at Fitzsimons, is nominated for Affordable Housing Finance's Reader's Choice Award in the Senior category. Voting closes 8/18/23!
March 13, 2023 - News segment on Denver 7:
Aurora affordable housing community for veterans 62 and older looking for more tenants
- May 19, 2023 AHA awarded twenty state housing choice vouchers that will provide long-term rental assistance in partnership with Children's Hospital Colorado. Interview from CBS News Colorado, with Steve Blackstock, Director of Family Services at the Aurora Housing Authority.
- April 13, 2023 Aurora Housing Authority, in partnership with Children’s Hospital Colorado, awarded 20 State Housing Vouchers
- January 5, 2023
You Be You (YbY) Early Learning is a mobile preschool program that brings preschool to families at AHA communities Willow Park and Peoria Crossing. Thank you to Next with Kyle Clark for his Word of Thanks micro-giving campaign that has raised nearly half of the $40,000 goal to buy a new mobile school bus. Donations can be made
online. Thank you to all who have donated so far!
2022
- Affordable Housing Development to Hold Formal Groundbreaking Event
- Construction to Commence for Affordable Senior Housing for Veterans
2021
- The Colorado Sun December 7, 2021 – The need for preschool has never been greater – and never harder – for struggling Colorado families to get
You be You Early Childhood Education mobile preschool is one of the new initiatives under our new resident services program, ECHO. - AHA Awarded Tax Credits for Affordable, Transit-Oriented Housing Development
- AHA Newsletter – April 2021
- June 30, 2021 – AHA’s Maintenance Team Wins Pandemic Perseverance Award
- May 12, 2021 – AHA Awarded Emergency Housing Vouchers
- January 25, 2021 – A New Year, a New Look for Connections at 6th
- Photos courtesy of Palace taken by Unfound Door
- January 8, 2021 – AHA Awarded 20 Mainstream Vouchers
2020
- December 15, 2020 – AHA Awarded $122,000 in Special Fees for Veteran Housing Case Management Services
- November 13, 2020 – AHA’s Fitzsimons Veterans Senior Housing Project Awarded Tax Credits
- November 11, 2020 – AHA Awarded 20 Housing Vouchers for Homeless Veterans
2019
- December 19, 2019 – AHA Acquires Land Using Transit Oriented Development Fund
- October 1, 2019 – Peoria Crossing to Welcome New Residents
- September 19, 2019 – Village at Westerly Creek 3 Wins Affordable Housing Finance Magazine’s 2019 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Public Housing Redevelopment Project
- September 3, 2019 – Village at Westerly Creek 3 Wins 2019 Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits Development of Distinction Award
- August 19, 2019 – Aurora Housing Authority to Host Event Celebrating Village at Westerly Creek Campus Completion
- View the redevelopment timeline video of the Village at Westerly Creek, as well as Photos from the VWC Celebration Event held on August 23, 2019 below:
2019 (continued)
- October 7, 2019 – Six Properties to Receive Novogradac Developments of Distinction Award
- October 4, 2019 – Channel 2 News/Fox 31 Denver’s coverage of Peoria Crossing
- September 25, 2019 – Novogradac Development of Distinction Award Winner for Family Housing
- August 7, 2019 – Village at Westerly Creek 3 Wins National Award of Excellence
- June 26, 2019 – Colorado Development Meets the Housing Needs of Large Families, Seniors, Affordable Housing Finance Magazine
- May 6, 2019 – Aurora Housing Authority and Steele Properties partnership for Aurora Homes
2018
- November 26, 2018 – AHA Awarded 40 Mainstream Vouchers
- November 15, 2018 – Affordable Housing Complex to Break Ground in Aurora, Denver Business Journal
- November 5, 2018 – Peoria Crossing Groundbreaking, CBS4
- November 5, 2018 – Peoria Crossing Groundbreaking Ceremony
- August 24, 2018 – Transit-Oriented Development Adding Affordable Housing Inventory to Aurora
- July 30, 2018 – Affordable housing in need of innovation in Colorado as Carson tours site, Denver 7
- June 29, 2018 – Aurora wraps up transformation of 1970s-era affordable housing project with completion of Village at Westerly Creek, Denver Post
- June 28, 2018 – Aurora Housing Authority’s Newest Affordable Housing Community Provides Needed Housing
- AHA was mentioned in the Aurora Sentinel’s article on housing for Veterans
- Early plans for Paris Street housing proposal near Anschutz Medical Campus unveiled (Aurora Sentinel )
2017
- August 17, 2017- Major Affordable Housing Redevelopment Begins Final Phase
- May 15, 2017- New Development at 30th and Peoria Moves Forward with Tax Credit Award
2016