Housing GSO: HRA Greensboro Affordable Housing Plan

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY

NOTES | Community Engagement Meetings

• Lead Paint Grant o They may be applying for the lead grant, but this will require more investment in terms of targeted neighborhoods — right now, HUD will give you money if you can do the program o Right now, they’re looking to see if all the MF properties built before 1960, which could nest hand-in-hand with the NOAH fund o Main tests show that this will apply to the 65 properties built before 1960 — these would likely have lead paint due to deteriorating conditions • What about coordination between community services and housing assistance? o Caitlin: thinks that job training would rely on affiliation with NC Works and the Welcome Home workforce development trainings, financial literacy is covered in housing education workshops seen in HousingConnect GSO through HCG o Right now: they don’t fund mental health support/elder care/disability care, and that they’re not likely to be able to ▪ It’s more about building relationships to ensure that the existing systems work for people • Cynthia: this is a plan that’s going to need to address the increase in the aging population o It won’t get better over time, so what is the solution? o Connect to ongoing “aging in place” legislation going through Council? • STAFFING GOAL: having a new staff contact with the Transportation Department to help think about infrastructure/transit/mobility linkages between housing, jobs, and services • TIMELINE: having a document and having buy-in are two separate things o What’s the circuit we need to go on to get this plan “socialized”? o Our goal is to have the document itself completed by the end of the year • TIMELINE: finalizing strategies & recommendations within next 2 weeks, then refining down to the action plan/priority actions and focus areas o Programs and recommendations come with a cost, show how different sources of money help meet goals – this will be framework for plan. • Preferences for staffing structure and information? o Describe staffing needs for prioritized programs, including examples from other cities if applicable. Advise on what should be kept in-house vs. where NDD can contract and work with partners. o Staffing recommendations are a separate memo, not part of affordable housing plan. • Stan’s ranking of priority areas: affordable rental, supportive housing, neighborhood revitalization, affordable homeownership. • AREA ONE: AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING o Think that targeting will be challenging given developer competition with High Point, and larger funding sources available in precedents (ex: Raleigh/Wake Co) o Curious if CFGG would be able to support an acquisition fund with corporate donations of land o Receptiveness to NOAH Preservation Fund: who is the JBG in this market? October 15, 2019 Meeting with NDD Housing Staff

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