{"id":11999,"date":"2024-04-05T14:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=11999"},"modified":"2024-04-05T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:16:20","slug":"affordable-housing-economic-development-the-focus-of-queen-annes-county-day-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2024\/04\/05\/affordable-housing-economic-development-the-focus-of-queen-annes-county-day-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Housing, Economic Development the Focus of Queen Anne\u2019s County Day Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Secretary Day and staff visit DHCD sponsored projects in Sudlersville, Queenstown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CENTERVILLE, MD. – Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day recently traveled throughout Queen Anne\u2019s County as part of the department\u2019s Day Trips tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary Day\u2019s stop at the county \u201cWhere Shore Living Begins\u201d on March 26 was the latest in a series of visits across the state<\/a> to hear directly from the community and see a few of the projects DHCD has invested in over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m always excited to see our successful community projects in each county and meet the people who work hard to make where they live and work better,\u201d said Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day. \u201cQueen Anne\u2019s County is a good example of how local leadership can work side by side with the Moore-Miller Administration to ensure that no Marylander is left behind when it comes to housing and community revitalization.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We were thrilled to welcome Secretary Jake Day to Queen Anne\u2019s County. His visit underscores the importance of collaboration between state, local and private entities in addressing critical housing needs in our county,\u201d said Queen Anne\u2019s County Commission President Jim Moran. \u201cWe look forward to future opportunities to partner and enhance the quality of life for all our residents.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Fiscal Year 2020-24, DHCD provided Queen Anne\u2019s County with more than $46 million in funding to create affordable housing, improve broadband service and revitalize neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s tour featured several places in the country that have been supported by DHCD grants and programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning, Secretary Day visited the old Sudlersville Middle School. The site received a Community Development Block Grant<\/a> and Community Legacy Grant<\/a> to help convert the building for adaptive re-use and redevelopment, including a community laundromat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secretary Day and DHCD\u2019s leadership team also toured businesses in Centreville, one of DHCD\u2019s Main Street Maryland communities.The Main Street Maryland Program works with towns such as Centreville to strengthen its downtown business district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in the day, the tour stopped at Onyx Beauty Supply in Queenstown, a barbershop and salon, which benefited from the department\u2019s Project Restore program<\/a>. Project Restore helps turn vacant storefronts into viable business space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The day in Queen Anne\u2019s County ended in Kent Island, where DHCD officials sat down with county and community leaders to help find solutions to the area\u2019s challenges on housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department\u2019s Day Trips tour across Maryland continues in April in Anne Arundel County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secretary Day and staff visit DHCD sponsored projects in Sudlersville, Queenstown CENTERVILLE, MD. – Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day recently traveled throughout Queen Anne\u2019s County as part of the department\u2019s Day Trips tour. Secretary Day\u2019s stop at the county \u201cWhere Shore Living Begins\u201d on March 26 was the latest in  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":12002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-trip","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12003,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions\/12003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}