Monday, November 4, 2019

MCPS Might Reclaim Housing Opportunities Commission Headquarters

As the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission prepares to move its headquarters to Silver Spring, the county school district is contemplating taking over the Kensington facility the agency was using.
The Housing Opportunities Commission — a commission formed in 1974 to respond to the county’s need for affordable housing — plans to move to a new location in Silver Spring within three years, according to county officials. The commission’s headquarters is now in a former school on Detrick Avenue in Kensington.
MCPS spokeswoman Gboyinde Onijala wrote in an email last month that MCPS is “considering the option but [we] haven’t made any specific plans for the site.”
In the Walter Johnson High School cluster, the 45,206-square-foot school has 19 rooms. It sits on 4.54 acres, according to MCPS documents.

Because it is a school site, MCPS gets first dibs, according to Greg Ossont, deputy director of the county’s Department of General Services...

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