The City of Erie held their first public hearing for their 2026 second annual plan.
Citizens from different groups and organizations presented their views on housing and community development needs as well as commented on the priorities and level of funding assigned by the City of Erie.
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The city has come up with proposed funding amounts and seven different priority needs for their plan.
During the hearing, the executive director for the redevelopment authority addressed the need to fund housing rehabilitation within the city.
“Over the last 15 years, the Redevelopment Authority has focused on providing rehabilitation grants to residents across the Erie community and of that, we’ve invested almost $23 million or administered $23 million in grant funding sources to housing owners, renters, investors across the Erie community. Almost 2600 units. We talked about, really, the need for investment within housing housing rehabilition,” said Aaron snippert executive director of the City of Erie Redevelopment Authority.