The Aurora Housing Authority has an essential mission in our City – to provide housing assistance for people with low and moderate incomes. We recognize that to be a truly great city, Aurora must have affordable housing for people across the income spectrum.

Over the past forty years, we have provided housing assistance in Aurora utilizing traditional programs: Public Housing and Section 8 Vouchers funded by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Our public housing communities were built in the early 1970’s to serve a City that was very different from our City today. Our community has changed and in recognition of these changes, our agency has developed a strategic plan to proactively meet the new challenges of housing Aurora’s residents.

The Aurora Housing Authority is in transition from providing traditional housing assistance. We will become a catalyst to support healthy mixed income communities in safe, stable environments. This transition will involve the repositioning of all properties in our public housing portfolio and increased operational effectiveness to leverage dwindling federal resources.

Achievement of our new vision will require the redevelopment of obsolete public housing communities that no longer meet the quality of life standards for the citizens of our community. The results of our new vision will be the delivery of high quality affordable housing with increased opportunities for residents.

Through this strategic plan, the Aurora Housing Authority provides a renewed commitment to our core mission of providing housing assistance for low and moderate income residents of our City; however, in times of change, we must re-assess the way in which we provide housing assistance. To prepare for the challenges of tomorrow, we must redefine public housing and we must adopt a more entrepreneurial way of doing business.

This strategic plan for the next five years articulates our new direction. This plan was developed in partnership with city leaders, our residents, our partners and stakeholders. We look forward to working with all members of our community to achieve our new Vision.

Please click here to view the entire strategic plan document.

Sincerely,

Gerald A. Jones, Chairman
Board of Commissioners