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Springfield Housing Authority Receives Public Praise

Springfield Housing Authority Receives Public Praise

The Springfield Housing Authority has been lauded in an editorial published in The Sunday Republican and on MassLive.com on Sunday, April 1, 2012.

The 564-word editorial praised the authority for its turn-around following turmoil, and for its leadership with the Board of Commissioners and Executive Director William H. Abrashkin, hired in 2008 following a 22-year career as a judge at Springfield Housing Court.

“With clean books and the improved morale of its 140 employees, the agency is now collaborating with the city of Springfield as an agent for community development. It expects to play a lead role, for example, in the revitalization of the city’s South End,” the editorial said.

“And it’s upgrading its properties,” added the piece, entitled ‘Springfield Housing Authority ushers in a new era.’

Read the editorial here.

Springfield Housing Authority Receives Public Praise

Springfield Housing Authority Executive Director William H. Abrashkin speaks recently at Marble Street Apartments, at the announcement of a $300,000 U.S. Housing and Urban Development “Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant” aimed at housing and other improvements in the South End section of the city.

The positive write-up in Western Massachusetts’ largest newspaper and news website came on the heels of a guest viewpoint piece written by Abrashkin and published on March 24, 2012. In that piece, Abrashkin wrote of the rebirth of the $42 million-per-year agency, noting that the SHA “has entered a new era in its history.

“The SHA’s finances are sound. For the first time in decades, its most recent independent audit has given it a clean bill of health, finding that all spending of public money is honest and transparent. The business systems and departments of this $40 million per year agency have been upgraded to modern standards and are operating with integrity. Millions of dollars in grants have been won and invested to make long-neglected developments better for residents and better neighbors in the community,” Abrashkin wrote.

Read the guest viewpoint piece, entitled ‘It’s a new day for the Springfield Housing Authority,’ here.

Also published on March 24, 2012, in The Sunday Republican and on MassLive.com was a news story by reporter Peter Goonan, who also wrote of the SHA’s recovery, with a recent audit showing a clean bill of fiscal health, and readiness to join the city of Springfield as a full partner in economic development and recovery.

Read the news story here.

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