The HOPE VI Grant Program
provides funds to
demolish severely distressed public housing units and rebuild communities that
lessen the concentration of poverty. In 1997, the United States Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the Orlando Housing Authority (OHA)
a $6.8 million HOPE VI Revitalization Grant.
The majority of the HOPE VI funds were being used to build a new mixed income,
mixed use community on the site of the former Orange Villa Public Housing
complex. The remainder of the funds providedhomeownership
opportunities to low-income public housing residents and Section 8 program
participants throughout non-impacted areas of Orlando and Orange County.
Partners
City of Orlando
Mayor Buddy Dyer
Commissioner Phil Diamond
Commissioner Betty T. Wyman
Commissioner Robert F. Stuart
Commissioner Patty Sheehan
Commissioner Daisy Lynum
Commissioner Samuel B. Ings
Orlando Neighborhood
Improvement Corporation and First City Realty and
Development, Inc.
Doing business as :
Colonialtown
Community Builders
Hampton Park HOPE VI Phases
Phase I
Infrastructure
Phase II On-Site
Homes
Phase IIA Off-Site Homes
Phase III Multi-Family
Phase IV OHA Admin Bldg.
Hampton
Park is the name of the new community that replaced Orange Villa , the
site of 100 World War II vintage public housing units originally built
by the War Department as temporary World War II housing. Due to the
advanced age of the
wood
frame structure units at Orange Villa, their contamination with lead
based paint, asbestos containing materials and infestation of termites,
the cost of rehabilitation of the units was determined to be prohibitive. HUD approved the Orlando
Housing Authority’s demolition application in 1994. Orange Villa
residents were either relocated to other public housing units or chose
to relocate out of public housing. All residents were relocated in 1995.
Demolition of all the buildings on site and soil remediation was
completed in 1996.
The Hampton Park HOPE VI Program is separated into four
phases.
demolish severely distressed public housing units and rebuild communities that
lessen the concentration of poverty. In 1997, the United States Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the Orlando Housing Authority (OHA)
a $6.8 million HOPE VI Revitalization Grant.
wood
frame structure units at Orange Villa, their contamination with lead
based paint, asbestos containing materials and infestation of termites,
the cost of rehabilitation of the units was determined to be prohibitive. HUD approved the Orlando
Housing Authority’s demolition application in 1994. Orange Villa
residents were either relocated to other public housing units or chose
to relocate out of public housing. All residents were relocated in 1995.
Demolition of all the buildings on site and soil remediation was
completed in 1996.
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