The non-profit organization Love Columbia expects its new transitional housing on East Ash to be done by the end of 2025. Love Columbia’s Caroline Roush tells 939 the Eagle that she anticipates families to move-in in early 2026.
939 the Eagle News covered the October groundbreaking ceremony. Love Columbia started its transitional housing program in 2015 and says more than 70 families with children have reset their lives and secured permanent housing since then. The new complex will be called Love Forward Homes, Roush says.
Love Columbia says those families receive intensive financial, housing and career coaching when they’re in transitional housing. Mayor Barbara Buffaloe praises that, telling 939 the Eagle News that in order to help, you have to provide what she calls those wraparound services.
Boone County Presiding Commissioner Kip Kendrick also spoke at the October groundbreaking ceremony, and praises the project. Commissioner Kendrick also praises Prost Builders, which is building the project.
