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The Community Builders (TCB) is pleased to announce that it has been selected to receive a BUILD Health Challenge® award.

City, county and state officials joined with the Yonkers Housing Authority (YHA) and The Community Builders (TCB) on May 22 to dedicate a state-of-the-art playscape at The Ridgeway.

The groundbreaking marks the beginning of construction for two six-story buildings which will be located at 2 and 6 Lamartine Street, once a new road is constructed as part of the project.  The two new buildings will include 223 affordable and moderate-income apartments, a new Anna Mae Cole Community Center and ground floor commercial space.

This week, Vice President Kamala Harris and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) has awarded over $1.73 billion, including $6.2 million to New Hope Community Capital, Inc. (NHCC) CDFI.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) and the City of Cleveland a Choice Neighborhoods Supplemental Funding Grant for $10 million, to further support the development of replacement housing in conjunction with the Transformation Plan for Woodhill Homes in the Buckeye- Woodhill neighborhood.

The Blue Line Corridor Project is the County Executive’s vision to create walkable, bikeable, amenity-rich communities near transit stations along the Blue Line Corridor.

The Community Builders (TCB) was awarded one of five contracts under Fannie Mae’s $5 million 2022 Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge (IC22), a nationwide competition to help advance racial equity in housing.

The Community Builders is proud to be a part of the Garfield Park Rite to Wellness collaborative, which was just announced as the winner of the Pritzker-Traubert 2022 Chicago Prize.

As a physician practicing in Garfield Park, Ansell witnessed the conditions that trigger the neighborhood’s low life expectancy. Pervasive inequality was the causal factor underlying the dismal health status metrics.