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Housing authority launches $30M effort

Plan includes two new apartment complexes

By Aaron Corvin, Columbian Port & Economy Reporter
Published: January 6, 2011, 12:00am

Clark County will see new apartment complexes sprout up and existing properties spruced up this year thanks to an estimated $30 million construction and improvement plan launched by the Vancouver Housing Authority.

The housing authority will have two new developments under construction in 2011. Camas Ridge, which broke ground in August 2010, is slated for completion in midsummer. The $7.5 million project, located on Prune Hill in Camas, will provide 51 apartments, including some that will rent at market rates and others available to people earning 60 percent or less of the area’s median income.

The second development, Vista Court Apartments — which will serve senior citizens — is scheduled to begin construction this month. The estimated cost of the project is $16.1 million. The 76-unit complex, for people 65 years of age and older, will rise just north of the housing authority’s existing Van Vista Plaza apartments in downtown Vancouver.

Meanwhile, the housing authority also plans to make roughly $6.7 million in capital improvements to existing properties in 2011.

Most of the improvements, including replacement of windows, siding and decks, are slated for the Springbrook Village and Teal Pointe apartment complexes, which are part of the housing authority’s work force housing inventory. Springbrook is near the Clark County Family YMCA in Orchards. Teal Pointe is in Hazel Dell.

The estimated total cost of improving these two properties is $5.7 million.

Improvements totaling roughly $960,000 are planned for the housing authority’s low-rent public housing, which will receive weatherization and exterior upgrades. The housing authority will also work on modernizing the RISE & STARS Community Center in the Skyline Crest development in McLoughlin Heights.

The Vancouver Housing Authority serves more than 7,500 very poor children, parents, elderly and disabled people with subsidized housing. The housing authority also provides non-subsidized affordable work force housing and other community development activities that provide homes for an additional 5,000 people.

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