Covington
Covington is an older, urban city that has pockets of high poverty and abandoned or dilapidated housing stock, but has also seen significant revitalization in the last decade. Covington’s assets include economic and racial diversity coupled with a small-town atmosphere.

For more information on Covington, please visit the Center for Great Neighborhoods’ website.

The projects supported by
place matters in Covington have two goals:

1. Improve Covington’s aging neighborhoods and housing stock.

2. Promote educational opportunities that lead to lifelong learning.

The strategies to achieve these goals include:

• lead community building efforts to connect residents to each other and further    engage them in their neighborhood and city;
• award mini-grants to neighborhood associations for community improvement    projects;
• boost homeownership through renovation and construction of new housing;
• recruit Covington residents to act as mentors for local middle-school students;
   and
• improve educational opportunities in the neighborhood of Peaselburg.

Covington's Mainstrasse Village

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