Tulsa: River West

The Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa and the City of Tulsa has been awarded a $30 million FY2017 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant for the Eugene Field Neighborhood. While located in a potentially desirable area, isolating physical barriers, years of disinvestment and an over-concentration of distressed, subsidized housing have hindered the neighborhood’s possibilities. Despite these obstacles, the Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa, the City of Tulsa, and the community used an FY 2010 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant to create a collective vision that has begun to transform their neighborhood. The Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant and significant private and public leverage will accelerate their progress. With these resources, Tulsa will replace the distressed River Park Apartments and Brightwater Apartments with high-quality mixed-income housing; dramatically improve children’s educational outcomes, open new employment opportunities, and increase health care access; and implement catalytic neighborhood improvements that will build upon Eugene Field’s assets.

HOUSING STABILITY

Through intense case management and strategic partnerships, we seek to follow the changes in the following items. Our dashboard highlights the data associated with the bold items:

  • Families actively engaged in case management’
  • Families in active case management completing a goal
  • Adults in active case management completing a goal
  • Families in active case management who have completed a goal related to housing stability
  • Households with a decrease in risk score since baseline
  • Households with a risk score higher than 100

INCOME & EMPLOYMENT

Through intense case management and strategic partnerships, we seek to follow the changes for families actively in case management for the following items:

  • Employment rate among able-bodied adults (18 to 64)
  • Average household income
  • Average earned household income (this excludes households with $0 earned income)

EDUCATION

Through intense case management and strategic partnerships, we seek to follow the changes for the following items:

  • Children age 0-5 enrolled in an early learning program
  • Children and youth engaged in enrichment programs

HEALTH

Through intense case management and strategic partnerships, we seek to follow the changes for the following items:

  • Participants connected to a primary care provider
  • participants who have been seen by their primary care provided in the last year