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HERALD Also serving Point Lookout & East Atlantic Beach
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Long Beach moving to Section 8 profit or for-profit entity to own and manage the property, and allows the owner to obtain other The Long Beach Housing funding, such as low-income Authority is slowly moving housing tax credits or state or toward a new federal program local grants, to repair the properthat will provide access to funds ty. Bringing in a private developto make needed repairs at the er is not required, but can occur. city’s four public buildings. RAD began under the Obama Word of the move administration. from the current sysThe program was tem — public housone of President ing — to Section 8 B a r a ck O b a m a ’s Rental Assistance answers to the probDemonstration, a lem of the country’s U.S. Housing and aging public-housing Urban Development stock. Most public program, first came developments across three years ago, mike CrUz the country were when the authority Long Beach built in the middle invited residents to a Housing Authority of the last century, meeting to inform and require repairs them of its plans. commensurate with In a letter to residents dated their age. Aug. 20, 2018, the authority statThe Long Beach Housing ed, “RAD is a voluntary program Authority’s Channel Park project run by [HUD]. Under RAD, HUD was built in 1970. The other three will change the way it provides buildings were constructed in rental assistance to the property 1970 and 1975. About 500 families from public housing to a long- live in the Channel Park homes, term Section 8 assistance con- and about 270 families are in the tract. The Section 8 program others, for seniors and the diswould make it easier for us to abled. access money to repair and The authority’s planned improve the property, either now change has picked up steam in or in the future.” recent weeks. Two weeks ago, the A RAD conversion is complex, City Council invited David Gallo, but essentially it allows a nonContinued on page 13
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No running shoes needed Brain Veit, of Port Jefferson, won Long Beach’s 41st Annual Biathlon July 18. More than 300 competitors turned out for the event, which included a 3-mile run and a 300-yard ocean swim.
The city’s annual International Film Festival is set to return By DArwiN YANeS dyanes@liherald.com
The Long Beach International Film Festival returns next week, and will offer about 40 films that will be screened both virtually and on the beach. The annual festival was held virtually last year, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. This year, organizers decided on a hybrid format, and will give movie lovers virtual access to all
the films for $5. The festival will run July 27 to Aug. 2, and will feature two movies on the beach, next to the Allegria Hotel. The beachfront tickets for those featured films, on Thursday and Friday, will be free, but organizers ask that people register in advance. “We’re just really excited to inch our way back to normalcy,” said Craig Weintraub, founder of the festival. “We’re really looking forward to having a
great festival this year, and [getting] back to a full festival next year.” Festival org aniz ers are already planning the event’s 10th anniversary in 2022. This year’s festival will not feature its regular culinary experience, but Weintraub said he hoped to bring that back next year. The festival, which brings considerable attention to Long Continued on page 4