FIVE YEAR AND ANNUAL PLANS OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF EAST ST. LOUIS
ESLHA has enunciated clear-cut policies and strategies, both long term and short term that seek to facilitate the economic strengthening and overall growth of the residents/community living in the Agency’s developments. These measures, as spelt out in the Five Year Plans and annual plans, reinforce ESLHA’s mission, viz:
To provide safe, decent and affordable housing
To promote, in partnership with community agencies and faith-based organizations, resident empowerment through education, training, job development and home ownership.
ESLHA faces the challenge of having to operate in a paradoxical scenario – that of a sustained demand for low and very low housing units despite adequate availability! On the one hand, is the continued decline in the population of the City of East St. Louis. On the other, genuine renters have little or no access to housing since many of the dwelling units meant for large families have been taken by higher household income households in the absence of enough stock of moderate housing. ESLHA estimates that there will be a need to serve 2,700 renters over the next five years.
Our Five Year Plan for the Fiscal Years 2010-2014 and the Annual Plan for the Fiscal Year beginning 04/2011 have been drawn up against this background. ESLHA’s Management Review Committee meets quarterly to review and assess the progress in meeting the goals and objectives. The committee also makes necessary recommendations to the senior management to adjust goals and objectives to better reflect the changing and currently unrealized needs of the agency.
ESLHA’S Plans seek to fulfill the following goals and objectives:
Promote decent affordable housing
Increase home ownership opportunities
Strengthen communities
Promote Agency economic self sufficiency
For details of our plans and activities, please contact our main administrative office.Plan Supporting Documents are available for inspection at our main business office. |
