Housing GSO: HRA Greensboro Affordable Housing Plan

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY

NOTES | Community Engagement Meetings

• AREA TWO: SUPPORTIVE HOUSING o Important to massage the language and emphasize partners instead of the CoC o UPDATE IN PROCESS: at this point, the City and the CoC are separated —they’re a member, but not on the board o Stan: they met with HUD and a couple of organizations to start the Coordinated Entry system, everyone agreed and then someone went on a separate campaign, and now things are stalled ▪ Coordinated Entry system is now 4 years behind ▪ NDD and also HUD were at the table with initial plan o In theory, our recommendations are accurate, and they are definitely needed, but there is a need to stay flexible o Would like to see more of this work rolled into requirements we see in the Affordable Rental Housing strategy ▪ Put it in both places, and show how you actually produce those units o Other recommendation: line-jumping LIHTC option for developments they’ve put funding into ▪ They’ll be interested in writing this into the Disaster Plan ▪ Figuring out how to get the language from Wake County so that they can go to their LIHTC developers and say that they need units for XYZ emergency situation ▪ Feedback: you have to be specific about getting a named disaster, so everyone can’t just jump in line, without making it cumbersome to revise the plan to add the name of the disaster each time • AREA THREE: NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION o In addition to streamlining rehab programs, efforts should integrate existing neighborhood/community efforts into the broader neighborhood revitalization plan ▪ GOAL: partner with neighborhood organizations who have weatherization funds and other items o Agreement that the community should see a single rehab program, with NDD/non-profit partner having a bunch of back-end operations doing this. Goal is to work with existing, qualified non-profit, not create a new organization. o Overall goal: City is acting as an ultimate approver, with lots of coordination with non-profit and local groups/neighborhood organizations in each neighborhood ▪ Basically, who takes responsibility for various actions in their area? ▪ Creating enthusiasm and civic/corporate/institutional support in strategic places o Charlotte’s models (Neighborhood Action Plans lead to Neighborhood Services Group, which informs targeted code enforcement — as opposed to complaint-driven) • AREA FOUR: AFFORDABLE HOMEOWNERSHIP o DPA: Concerns about repayable loans — because of the difficulty of loan servicing ▪ However, they could make it work — deferred loans are just a bit easier ▪ Fewer people will likely apply if you do this o SO: we’re going to need to ensure that you’re not cutting civil servants out of the pool when “better supporting lower-income buyers with DPA” o General consensus behind allowing program participation up to 140% AMI in our targeted neighborhoods, and the greater but-for requirement of new mortgage product • Next Steps o Call for recap of trip meetings o Call for feedback on existing tools/recommendations

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