Colorado Springs / Colorado / United States
The Housing Authority of the City of Colorado Springs provides affordable housing opportunities to enhance the lives of low-income families, senior citizens and individuals with disabilities. The authority manages more than 400 family housing units. It administers several housing assistance programs, including the Plaza of Platte, public housing, housing choice vouchers and senior housing. The authority also runs other programs, such as Family Self-Sufficiency and homeownership. Its Golden Circle Nutrition Program offers low-cost lunches to senior citizens and residents of housing authority-owned buildings at more than 20 sites located throughout El Paso and Teller counties in Colorado. The Housing Authority of the City of Colorado Springs offers a homeownership program in the form of a down-payment assistance loan for first-time homebuyers who have low income. Its housing choice vouchers program is a federally governed program that assists tenants in paying rent and utility bills. The housing authority is located in Colorado Springs, Colo.
