--- title: Bringing It Home | Scholar House description: Scholar House | This blog, Bring It Home, is a space where we can connect, share innovative thinking, and collaborate with our many private and public partners as well as clients and customers. This is a place of dialogue, where Kentuckians can read, listen, and participate in the discussion of new ideas, best practices, policy tools, and hear the stories of those affected by and shaping affordable housing. --- [Skip to Content](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/scholar-house#main-content) [![Bringing It Home](https://blog.kyhousing.org/hubfs/Logos/Bringing%20It%20Home%20Logo_Color%20-%20Horizontal%20-%20Inverted.svg) ![Bringing It Home](https://blog.kyhousing.org/hubfs/Logos/Bringing%20It%20Home%20Logo_Color%20-%20Horizontal%20-%20Inverted.svg)](https://blog.kyhousing.org/) - [Blog Posts](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog) - [Podcasts](https://blog.kyhousing.org/podcasts) - [Success Stories](https://blog.kyhousing.org/khc-success-stories) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Blog Posts](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog) - [Podcasts](https://blog.kyhousing.org/podcasts) - [Success Stories](https://blog.kyhousing.org/khc-success-stories) - [Subscribe](https://blog.kyhousing.org/subscribe) Open search Close Search [Subscribe](https://blog.kyhousing.org/subscribe) # Blog Posts ##### *See the blog posts below. 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She joined the army reserves as a junior in high school; then she tried college for a few semesters, worked at Fort Knox in human resources, and temporarily moved to St. Louis to be a flight attendant. Back in Louisville as a single mother, Tallia determined to become a pilot, taking classes first at JCCC and then at Eastern Kentucky University, where she joined the Scholar House. “The program is awesome,” she said. “I just don’t really know how else to explain it besides that it is just support for me, support for my kid… Everything we need.” [Read More ➜](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tallia-cuttino-scholar-house) [![](https://blog.kyhousing.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Riverport+Landings-1.jpg?height=500&name=Riverport+Landings-1.jpg)](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/9/7/riverport-landings-an-intergenerational-community-making-impact) [innovative housing](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/innovative-housing), [big housing ideas](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/big-housing-ideas), [elderly housing](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/elderly-housing), [archive](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/archive), [Scholar House](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/scholar-house) ## [Riverport Landings – An Intergenerational Community Making Impact](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/9/7/riverport-landings-an-intergenerational-community-making-impact) Sep 7, 2018 9:49:43 AM Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) takes great pride in partnering with organizations throughout the Commonwealth to address the diverse housing needs of our citizens. [Read More ➜](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/9/7/riverport-landings-an-intergenerational-community-making-impact) [![](https://blog.kyhousing.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Strategic+Housing+Podcast-Dec-05-2022-11-46-56-7235-AM.png?height=500&name=Strategic+Housing+Podcast-Dec-05-2022-11-46-56-7235-AM.png)](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/1/29/zgxy4sg9vub2is2h8yyj7ko5vafhsr) [partners](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/partners), [LIHTC](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/lihtc), [archive](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/archive), [podcast](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/podcast), [Scholar House](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/scholar-house) ## [Podcast - Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) - Part 2](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/1/29/zgxy4sg9vub2is2h8yyj7ko5vafhsr) Jan 30, 2018 10:16:44 AM This podcast is a continuation from the first, featuring Edwin King, Kentucky Housing Corporation's (KHC) executive director, and Mark Shelburne, senior manager with Novogradac & Company. Both continue to discuss the importance of the Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) to Kentucky and changes KHC is making to improve the process and reduce red tape. [Read More ➜](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/1/29/zgxy4sg9vub2is2h8yyj7ko5vafhsr) [![](https://blog.kyhousing.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Strategic+Housing+Podcast-Dec-05-2022-11-46-55-4766-AM.png?height=500&name=Strategic+Housing+Podcast-Dec-05-2022-11-46-55-4766-AM.png)](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/1/26/tsur5atcofvlookj8exu041usyzbey) [partners](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/partners), [LIHTC](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/lihtc), [archive](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/archive), [podcast](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/podcast), [Scholar House](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/scholar-house), [developers](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/developers) ## [Podcast - Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) - Part 1](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/1/26/tsur5atcofvlookj8exu041usyzbey) Jan 26, 2018 9:37:28 AM In the first podcast from Strategic Housing, Edwin King, Kentucky Housing Corporation's (KHC) executive director, and Mark Shelburne, senior manager with Novogradac & Company, sit down and talk about the importance of the Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) to Kentucky and changes KHC is making to improve the process and reduce red tape. [Read More ➜](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2018/1/26/tsur5atcofvlookj8exu041usyzbey) [![](https://blog.kyhousing.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Lincoln-Grant-Opening-3.jpg?height=500&name=Lincoln-Grant-Opening-3.jpg)](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2017/9/19/top-three-challenges-to-building-a-scholar-house) [challenges](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/challenges), [archive](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/archive), [Scholar House](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/scholar-house) ## [Top Three Challenges to Building a Scholar House](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2017/9/19/top-three-challenges-to-building-a-scholar-house) Sep 19, 2017 8:38:47 AM So what are the biggest challenges to building a Scholar House? Rob Ellis, Kentucky Housing Corporation, has worked to develop nine Scholar Houses across Kentucky. He knows better than [Read More ➜](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2017/9/19/top-three-challenges-to-building-a-scholar-house) [![](https://blog.kyhousing.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Scholar_House-Breondra_with_son-3.jpeg?height=500&name=Scholar_House-Breondra_with_son-3.jpeg)](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2017/9/19/scholar-house-building-independence-and-stability-for-families) [faces of affordable housing](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/faces-of-affordable-housing), [archive](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/archive), [Scholar House](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/tag/scholar-house) ## [Scholar House: Building Independence and Stability for Families](https://blog.kyhousing.org/blog/2017/9/19/scholar-house-building-independence-and-stability-for-families) Sep 13, 2017 11:15:00 AM Scholar House is a self-sufficiency program, based on the adult student’s income, that provides housing assistance for those who are full-time students in a post-secondary educational institution. 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