VIDEO – BIG CHANGES COMING TO BRENHAM PUBLIC HOUSING

  

Big changes are in the works for Brenham’s public housing.  The majority of the public housing units in Brenham were built in the 1970s and are in need of replacement.  The Brenham Housing Authority is taking advantage of the HUD Rental Assistance Demonstration Program to allow a private investor partnership to fund the remodeling or replacement of the aging units.  The Housing Authority is working with the HuntJon LLC group, who is already building the Belle Towers complex on North Market Street, to design, fund, and build the new public housing.

The project is planned in four phases, the first of which is the remodeling of all the units in the Northview Circle neighborhood. Beginning next year, residents of that neighborhood will be given the option of relocating to a different housing property or accepting a rent voucher to move into private housing to allow for the renovations.  The next phase of construction is planned for a lot on Hosea Street adjacent to Henderson Park.

Management of the new units will stay with the Brenham Housing Authority and it will be have the controlling interest in ownership.  Investors will retain a limited partnership in the ownership of the units.  Michel emphasizes that no tax dollars will be used in the construction and that the new units will actually bring Federal tax dollars into Brenham in the form of rent subsidies.