Housing GSO: HRA Greensboro Affordable Housing Plan

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY

NOTES | Community Engagement Meetings

October 16, 2019 Meeting with David Parrish, City Manager

• People seem pretty interested in the fund ideas: NOAH, Acquisition Fund o Preservation fund will need to have a Board with real oversight • Multiple ongoing conversations with Council: opportunities for supportive units with Cone Health, opportunities for available property , talking with Guilford County Schools • See the school system as a potential partner o GCSD holds a lot of property, but they are underfunded in general • Other partners: Cone Health o Would be important to bring in GCSD and talk about the findings and how they see them moving forward o Stan has more info on Cone’s availability — however, there’s a natural alignment with their interest in NOAH properties and bringing them up from being substandard housing • Thought on particular neighborhoods o Makes sense to add Councilwoman Thurm’s area of Random Woods o Dudley Heights is a little more surprising — but, additional property along that corridor that’ll be developed o All of these areas have a lot of existing activity that would complement revitalization, o Kings Forest: not too far away from the Self Help shopping center — that area has been a little tougher in making things work there o THE WHY: In articulating this to council, we need to connect our additional investment to this current investment. This will help them to articulate our investment in these communities. • Challenges with the Downtown Greenway — Morehead Foundry, which was the biggest development, and went belly-up because it was mixed-use before the housing/other amenities came around it

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