Housing Authority of Bowling Green, a place to live and grow

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Housing Authority of Bowling Green is a public, low income housing option for people that strives to not only provide affordable space but offer tools to move up should residents choose.

HABG has been around since 1965, helping people get a step up with not only low rent but offering multiple programs as the years go on. They have something to offer the youth after school, older adults and those with disabilities as well as aspiring home buyers, all with the help of as many grants as they can find.

News 40 spoke to three people associated with the housing authority, who said it’s like its own little community.

Norman Simpson, an officer dedicated to the area on behalf of the Bowling Green Police Department, said it’s a different outlook on law enforcement with working in the Housing Authority. Simpson told us as opposed to working on the street, he’s come to form relationships with the 1,600 residents, spending a lot of time with the children who live in the area.

Former executive director Abraham Williams said for him, it’s been a great blessing to see people better themselves as they would take advantage of the programs offered over his 29 years of working there, and it’s not all about the outside as much as what’s inside whether that be a person or a house.

Williams said success is what you define it as, and he’s seen several success stories come out of HABG from people finally being able to get off welfare or buy their first house.