Priority placement will be offered for veterans.
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, on Friday announced a $584,000 grant to St. Mary to support the nonprofit’s efforts to create affordable housing in southwest Ohio.
Turner is among the invited guests for a news conference Monday at the Dayton VA to announce the partnership and initiation of a lease with St. Mary.
St. Mary in November was notified that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will make a $4.6 million loan available that the nonprofit can use to help finance the $6.5 million project.
The U.S Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to build 5,400 residential units at VA hospitals across the country, including 310 at the Dayton VA, in an effort to reduce homelessness among military veterans.
The agency in November said it plans to lease vacant or underused parcels of land to private developers who will build the housing on VA medical center campus so that homeless, disabled or elderly vets who live there will have easy access to VA care and treatment.
The Dayton VA is offering an additional 14 acres of land on the medical center’s campus along U.S. 35 and Gettysburg Avenue for development.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2419 or dlarsen@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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