The Durham Housing Authority is making progress in its efforts to redevelop its aging public housing properties, but some sites are still mired with maintenance issues and more subsidized housing is needed, DHA officials told the Durham City Council this week.
In response to insufficient federal funding, DHA is redeveloping its properties into mixed-income housing. This is intended to create more sustainable funding for subsidized units by adding revenue from market-rate units and transferring DHA tenants from traditional public housing to the better funded Housing Choice Voucher, or Section 8, program.
Redevelopment is set to be complete at the Dillard Street Apartments this year and at Liberty Street and the former Oldham Towers site in 2028. Eleven public housing sites have already been redeveloped and an additional six are scheduled throughout the next decade…