LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville's Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods is making sure residents of Dosker Manor feel supported as they prepare to move from the troubled public housing complex.
OSHN held a cookout and outreach event on Thursday as part of its new "Supportive Housing Project."Â
Social workers and professional clinicians offered social services, financial housing assistance and mental health counseling.
The goal of the project is to help those who call Dosker Manor home with their transition into a new environment.
"So we have to understand that, from the outside looking in, people just hear Dosker got this, Dosker got that, but they don't see the humanity in Dosker," Program Manager Nannette Dix said. "They don't see the people who call this home, and so we want to make sure that, as people are leaving their home, that they are provided service, trauma-informed services to make that transition a little easier."
The Supportive Housing Project will be available on-site daily during the relocation process. It will also be expanded to help residents living in all Louisville Metro Housing Authority properties.
Residents began moving out of Dosker Manor in early August. The public housing complex has been plagued with issues, and LMHA is moving ahead with plans to move people out.
A history of poor maintenance at Dosker Manor — dirty hallways, litter, mice, mold, bed bugs — and crime led to Metro Council calling for an investigation into LMHA. Some councilmembers went so far as to call LMHA "the worst slumlord of them all."
In July, LMHA said they had 100 apartments open and ready for residents from Dosker Manor. But there is nothing easy about moving and finding a new place to live.Â
LMHA is paying for the move and has hired a moving contractor that will do everything for residents — pack their apartments and unpack them at their new place. If residents move themselves, they can be reimbursed up to $1,300.
More than 500 people call Dosker Manor home. LMHA is moving people out of Building A first.
It could take up to 18 months to move all residents out of Dosker Manor. LMHA has said it plans to demolish the public housing complex.
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