The Housing Continuum and Care agency counted more than 150 unsheltered people living in Bucks County.
One day before starting the official count of unsheltered people living in Bucks County, volunteer Deborah Neidhart asked a staff member at one of the Central Bucks libraries if she knew of any homeless people in the area. Neidhart said the woman was shocked and denied that there were any homeless people at all in the area. "If you are not exposed to it, if you don't see it, then you really don't know that it exists," she said. "It's more invisible in Central Bucks than anywhere else in the county." It's a common misconception that Neidhart encounters, that only the lower part of Bucks County has a homeless population. It's a myth that Neidhart needs to shatter if she and the rest of her team hope to get an accurate count. "The camps are …
The Bucks County and Warminster planning committees agreed to the designation after reviewing documentation of the neighborhood's deteriorating condition.
The Bucks County and Warminster planning commission agreed last week to officially identify Shenendoah Woods as a blighted area and certified the former military housing neighborhood to the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority (BCRDA) as a redevelopment area. The decision came following review of evidence that Shenandoah Woods met several of the criteria necessary to earn the blighted label, including inadequate planning of the area, faulty street and lot layout and economically or socially undesirable land use. Warminster Township solicitor Michael Savona described the designation as the first of many steps toward redeveloping the 199 vacated residential units into a new neighborhood with 113 single and twin homes. The blighted label will…
The former military housing neighborhood will be redeveloped into single and twin residences.
After rejecting the original proposal, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted final approval for the Horsham Land Reuse Authority's recently revised redevelopment plan for Shenandoah Woods. Now that the plan has been accepted, an environmental assessment plan needs to be performed on the site, said HLRA Executive Director Mike McGee. While it is too soon to give an exact timeline, McGee predicted it will take a couple months for the assessment, after which the Navy will be cleared to sell the property to the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority (BCRDA). "They have to analyze the environmental impact of the plan," said McGee. "Since we are turning a residential area into another residential area, it shouldn't take …
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