Housing GSO: HRA Greensboro Affordable Housing Plan

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY

NOTES | Community Engagement Meetings

October 16, 2019 Meeting with Nancy Hoffman, City Council District 4

• AREA ONE: AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING o Last night, Council voted down a workforce housing project —6 members felt the land should’ve been used for a mixed -use corporate park o Pretty impressed by return rates on NOAH Fund idea from JBG • AREA TWO: SUPPORTIVE HOUSING • AREA THREE: NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION o Thoughts about code enforcement ▪ Long demolition list, and no $$$ to do anything with the properties — vacant homes that would have been able to repair, but now it ’s something you just have to demo ▪ Previously, every time you’ve demolished a house, you create a hole in the neighborhood— majority of which are in East Greensboro o City needs to establish a clear quarterly process for disposing of land after demolishing home through an RFP process • AREA FOUR: AFFORDABLE HOMEOWNERSHIP o From a government/philosophical point, she doesn’t think they need to play a role in homeownership ▪ HOWEVER: not opposed to geographic targeting in DPA work —“building back houses with good bones” o Curious about why City should support homeownership given national trends and changing consumer preferences ▪ Spoke to the longstanding problems with federal involvement in homeownership • Her perspective on other neighborhoods to add for targets for revitalization: o Older, downtown-proximate neighborhoods in the 1930s-1940s o Glenwood and Ole Asheboro were her first mentioned ideas ▪ She’s always wanted to see Glenwood improved because it was a well -established inner-city neighborhood with good infrastructure, diverse housing stock, and right next to a huge asset (UNCG) o Approves of the City “making enough of an impact in one area so that residents can actually see how the money actually gets s pen t” • Her thoughts on building consensus for the plan to be implemented o Implementation is really a staff conversation o Getting private participation is staff, council thing o Mentioned the 70% consensus the public had with the bond processes — people believe in this work and its importance o “If you can present the rationale for what you’re trying to do, and where you’re trying to get, you can lead people”

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