Our story begins in in 2012, when the Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership received a grant from the Community Foundation to tackle affordable housing in Columbia and in Lancaster City. LHOP matched the Community Foundation funds and announced that it would invest $100,000 in each community.
Because that's both a significant investment and a limited pot of money, LHOP asked Columbia to pull a committee together to help decide how to get the most 'bang for the buck.' The Housing Steering Committee - the HSC - first met in August of 2013.
The committee has about a dozen people with many different areas of interest and expertise. People who specialize in economic development, representatives of the faith-based and service communities, urban planners, borough residents, and borough administrators. Local business people have also joined in the discussion.
That's the beginning; we've come a long way since then!
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