• Architectural Award for main office
  • Award for BYTE (Building Young Technology Experts)
  • Curb Award for Roodner Court
  • National Award of Excellence from National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials for the Youth Literacy Program
  • National Award of Excellence from National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials for the Scholarship Program
  • Award of Excellence in Resident & Client Services, Youth Program, HNA Work Study Program from New England Regional Council of National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
  • Family Strengthening Award from the Family & Children’s Agency
  • Housing Authority Insurance Group – Most Improved Housing Authority
  • National Award of Merit from National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials for Program Innovation – Resident and Client Services
  • Award of Merit from New England Regional Council of National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials for spearheading the development of Norwalk Reads!
  • Reading Is Fundamental Award, Top Ten Rated Programs out of 3,600 programs.
  • Roodner Court Playground used as model in National Landscape Structures publication
  • School Street Design Award
  • U. S. Dept of Housing & Urban Development – Neighborhood Networks Certificate of Achievement “for helping to create a vibrant community that fosters economic opportunity and life-long learning.”
  • Written up by U. S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development for excellent programming
  • Jeffrey Wallace Award from the Connecticut Community Development Association
  • Washington Village Site Renovation Award from Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects


Since 2002, NHA has received perfect financial scores on PHAS, the Public Housing Assessment System, and has had no audit findings in 10 years.