News & Events at
Sarasota Housing Authority
Sarasota Housing Authority is pleased to announce that our efforts under HUD Receivership, which formally ended July 9, 2008, and a new administration have gained significant positive media attention. We strive not only to provide decent and safe affordable housing but also supportive services that lead toward self-sufficiency. We invite you to read through the following articles and events on SHA and our work.
Non-Profit Organization of the Year Award Fnalists Announced (3/14/03)
Change for Public Housing Complex Begins with New Paint (2/1/13)
Sarasota Housing Authority Opening King Stone Project (02/01/13)
Biz(941) Good News Friday: Major real estate transactions in Sarasota and Manatee (1/25/13)
Ribbon Cutting for New, Affordable Housing Community in Newtown (1/23/13)
Sarasota Unveils New Apartments in Newtown (1/23/13)
28 New Townhomes Replace Blighted Sarasota Complex (1/23/13)
King Stone Apartments Open In Newtown (1/23/13)
Honor the Badge Shopping Spree (12/15/12)
Sarasota Housing Authority and Sarasota Police Department Team to Provide Holiday Experience for Underprivileged Youths (12/07/12)
New Sustainable and Affordable Apartments Open in Sarasota (11/30/12)
Sarasota Housing Funding Corporation Completes Rehabilitation (11/15/12)
Local Governments Support SHA Redevelopment (11/14/12)
Affordable Housing: Meeting a Dire Need in Sarasota
Janie's Garden Phase II Opens in Newtown
Grand Opening of a $14 million project features 68 apartments and street-level retail along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Way.
SHA Hosts the Janie's Garden Phase II Grand Opening Ceremony and the Mediterranean Apartments Demolition Ceremony.
SARASOTA, FL (November 28, 2011)—The Sarasota Housing Authority (SHA) and its development partner, Michaels Development, celebra…
"Housing Authority Cameras Keep Close Eye on Neighborhood," on WWSB ABC Channel 7 News.
Sarasota Herald Tribune editorial--"Sarasota Denied Grant for Public Housing Update."
Sarasota Herald Tribune editorial--"Security Cameras Watch Sarasota Public Housing."
Sarasota Herald Tribune editorial--"Director: Sarasota Public Housing is Not Crime-Ridden."
Sarasota Bans Smoking in Public Housing on WWSB ABC News Channel 7.
SHA Goes Green with Federal Stimulus Funding on SNN News Channel 6.
Sarasota Herald Tribune article "New HOPE on Housing."
Sarasota Herald Tribune article "Janie's Garden Project in Phase II."
SHA's Janie's Garden Groundbreaking Ceremony coverage on News Channel 8.
Sarasota Herald Tribune article "Housing Authority Restores and Rents Distressed Homes."
SHA Executive Director William Russell discusses the significance of Janie's Garden Phase II on local radio show
SNN Channel 6 coverage of SHA revitalizing foreclosed homes in order to provide affordable housing to local families.
SHA Hosts Janie's Garden Phase II Groundbreaking Ceremony and Leed Certification Ceremony.
SARASOTA, FLORIDA--Sarasota Housing Authority has completed an official closing for its Janie's Phase II redevelopment project. …
Housing Choice Voucher Program Waiting List Opens
SARASOTA, FLORIDA—In an economy plagued with increased job losses and mortgage foreclosures, Sarasota Housing Authority (SHA) re…
SHA Executive Director William Russell Appears on ABC7's Black Almanac Show
A New Deal for Public Housing
a Sarasota Herald Tribune Editorial
Sarasota Herald Tribune Article on Janie's Garden
SHA's Janie's Garden Coverage on SNN 6 TV
SNN 6 Coverage of Janie's Garden Grand Opening and HUD Stimulus Grant
HUD Awards SHA
HUD Awards SHA an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Public Housing Transformation Grant of $2.5 million for Phase I…
Herald Tribune Lead Editorial on Janie's Garden
SHA's Janie's Garden Mixed-Income Development Leases Up
SHA Receives Federal Stimulus Funds for Capital Projects
Herald Tribune Lead Editorial
HUD Ends Receivership
Turns SHA Over to Local Control
Janie Poe Phase I Groundbreaking Event - 4 Articles:
Herald Tribune Op Ed
Herald Tribune Editorial, ABC Chanel 7 story, and a Herald Tribune news article
Nourishing hope at Janie Poe
When I arrived at the give-thanks dinner last Tuesday at Janie Poe public housing complex, I planned to listen, not eat. But bef…
Rethinking Public Housing
The Venice Housing Authority faces a difficult decision on what to do about Grove Terrace, a dilapidated and poorly run public h…
$17M Awarded to Revitalization Project in Florida
The Sarasota Housing Authority (SHA), the county of Sarasota and the city of Sarasota recently signed an inter-local funding agr…
Sarasota CRA expanded to include Newtown
It took more than a decade, but the historic Newtown community in Sarasota officially became part of the city's downtown redevel…
Bradenton Herald: Sarasota CRA Expanded to include Newtown
It took more than a decade, but the historic Newtown community in Sarasota officially became part of the city's downtown redevel…
ABC7: Funds to renovate housing complex awarded
Money has been award to the Sarasota Housing Authority to begin renovating its Janie Poe housing development. This after the cit…
Residents wary of HUD departure
Public housing residents say things improved when the federal government took control of the Sarasota Housing Authority two year…
Putting public housing in order
Running a local public housing agency "isn't rocket science," HUD receiver Carmen Valenti likes to say. But fixing an organizati…
PRESS RELEASE – ROSS Early Childhood Center Opens
Children First and the Sarasota Housing Authority will present an Open House on Monday, June 25th at 8:30 a.m. at 1912 North Ora…
PRESS RELEASE – Buchanan Announces SHA to Receive ROSS Grant
In a press release with HUD Tampa Field Office Director, Karen Jackson-Sims, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan announced today that the Sa…
Start of something big
In place of shabby, uncomfortable -- even unhealthy -- public housing, imagine a neighborhood that revitalizes Newtown with new …
A Commitment to Improvement
They want out. And they're determined that nothing will get in their way, especially not the defeatist attitudes of others. They…
Youths Take in Reds Game as FCAT Reward
The Housing Authority of the City of Sarasota took 23 children from Janie Poe to a Sarasota Reds game Wednesday as a reward for …
Authority Hosting Carnival for Residents
Bill Russell, Executive Director of the Sarasota Housing Authority, will sit in a dunk tank today during a carnival for the Hous…
Join the Good Deed Chain
One good deed begets another, the saying goes, and we hope its true for Sarasota's public housing.
Several organizations have…
Housing Advisor Urges Changes
Sarasota's dilapidated publc housing complexes should be replaced with mixed-income neighborhoods, an adviser to the Sarasota Ho…
Rebuilding Trust
Sarasota's run-down public housing faces a difficult transition. It needs to revew, adapt and transform itself, without neglecti…
A New Beginning
Next week, a new director takes the reins of Sarasota's public housing, a job that comes with decades' worth of baggabe. The loc…
