Lift Orlando is spearheading the effort to revitalize the West Lakes and Washington Shores communities, securing a $500,000 planning grant to upgrade two public housing sites in the neighborhood.

The grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will support the comprehensive redevelopment planning of Washington Shores’ Lake Mann Homes, a family public housing site with 210 units, and West Lakes’ Lorna Doone Apartments, an elderly site with 104 units.

Lift Orlando and the Orlando Housing Authority just received funding to move forward with planning development for Lake Mann Homes and Lorna Doone Apartments.

The organizations just received a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant for $500,000.