Audubon Area Community Services, Inc.

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Assisted Housing and Energy Conservation

Operated in the Green River Area and other Kentucky locations where the needs and opportunities exist

Assisted-Housing Management Center

Sheila Boling, Assisted-Housing/Weatherization Director

Audubon Area has established the Management Center to acquire and train the staff to 1) manage its own HUD- and KHC-assisted properties; 2) to develop and rehabilitate new and existing properties in Kentucky, including in tandem with private developers; 3) secure AACS ownership of other HUD-assisted properties under its "preservation" program; 4) seek management contracts for additional owned and non-owned properties; 5) seek Community Housing Development Organization [CHDO] recognition through Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) and fully exercise the functions as a CHDO under the Affordable Housing Act of 1990; and 6) perform all other functions necessary and appropriate to help improve the area's safe, decent, affordable housing stock.

Audubon Area is grateful to Kentucky Housing Corporation for the financial support it has provided to the Management Center.

The Audubon Area Assisted-Housing Management Center also manages two additional single-family rental properties owned by the agency.

(LINCOLNSHIRE LOGO) Lincolnshire Apartments / Lincolnshire North Apartments

The AACS, Inc. acquired the 100-apartment Lincolnshire and 108-unit Lincolnshire North complexes located at 1001 Pennbrooke Avenue, Owensboro, as of November 29th in a HUD-sanctioned "preservation program" purchase from Jagoe and Ray. The purchase culminated a two and one-half year acquisition process. Under Audubon, the complexes operate under the corporate names of Lincolnshire Apartments, Inc. and Lincolnshire North Apartments, Inc. The complexes are HUD insured and subsidized. Through November 30, 1996, by agreement, the completed remain under the management of J&R Rentals while the AACS, Inc. qualifies for HUD approval to manage them subsequently. Terri Alexander is the on-site manager of the Lincolnshire properties.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development supports and monitors the Lincolnshire properties and their operations.
The Lincolnshire properties are Equal Housing Opportunity and Handicap Accessible properties. Louisville, Kentucky, Area HUD Office, click here.

Audubon Area Cities' Consolidated Plan Executive Summaries...Owensboro, Kentucky || Henderson, Kentucky || Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Home Weatherization Assistance Program...

The weatherization program is primarily an ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAM. The program is not a cosmetic service. The program employs personnel and methods which offer the latest technical knowledge and tools to produce a dwelling's maximum energy conservation capacity. The measures follow a "whole house" approach and are prioritized in accordance with proven energy saving applications, that is, the most effective measures are always employed first.

The program's trained weatherization technicians and energy systems technicians also ensure home/resident safety above all. Energy systems (furnaces and water heaters) may be repaired or replaced as the technicians determine the need. Periodic spot monitoring verify the payback (conservation achieved) by the program.

National Center for Appropriate Technology, an organization specializing in conservation and sustainable technologies.

Kentucky Weatherization Newsletter [File size: 97 kb], the Winter 1995 edition. This newsletter is edited by AACS Assisted-Housing/Weatherization Director Sheila White. To view (assuming you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer), double-click on the highlighted link. Your browser will invoke Adobe Acrobat Reader and display the newsletter.
NOTE: If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader it is available on a free download from Adobe Systems Incorporated at the following linked site: Adobe Acrobat Reader Download

Demand-Side Management Initiative...

Under the auspices of Western Kentucky Gas Company (WKG) and pursuant to its 1995 rate-agreement negotiated through the Kentucky Public Service Commission, the AACS, through its weatherization program, will undertake a "demand-side management" initiative in the Green River Area. The initiative will focus on energy system replacements in the homes of approved lower income WKG customers in order to reduce their energy consumption while making their dwellings more liveable.

HOME. Housing Services Under the Affordable Housing Act...

The AACS is presently engaged (1994-96) in a KHC-funded 5-unit major rehab program--all units being in the Green River Area. Extensive rehab work has been performed in conjunction with the Weatherization program. Structural, wiring, plumbing, even re-building can be performed through HOME funding.

Homeownership Counseling...

Since 1971, the AACS has been a HUD-approved homeownership counseling agency. Since 1979, the program has operated on a fee-funding basis from participating financial institutions who need the counseling for customers seeking HUD/FHA loans or who the financial institutions deem appropriate for such counseling, for example, first-time home buyers.
The AACS is grateful to Kentucky Housing Corporation(KHC) for the financial support it has provided to the agency for both of these HOME/Affordable Housing efforts. In June 1996, two additional grants were made to the AACS under the KHC Affordable Housing program.

Weatherization in Kentucky...

The number of homes weatherized in Kentucky's 24 Weatherization Assistance Programs is: 3,524
9,188 persons resided in the homes weatherized (1995 summary)
Total Weatherization expenditures in Kentucky: $4,962,000. || All 120 of Kentucky's counties are served.

--SOURCE: Cabinet for Families and Children, Energy Assistance Branch, Pat Bishop, Director


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