Housing & Neighborhood Development Annual Report 2022-2023

Empowering Communities: Neighborhood Benefits of CLTs In Greensboro, the development of a Community Land Trust (CLT) has emerged as a powerful idea and potential tool for empowering residents, revitalizing neighborhoods, and expanding affordable housing options. This year several community information meetings were held to explain what a CLT is. CLTs acquire and hold land in trust while providing affordable homes to low- and moderate-income families who also agree to sell their homes to other qualified, low-income individuals should they decide to move. This perpetually fulfills the CLT mission. Individuals not only achieve homeownership, but the risk of displacement due to fluctuating markets and rising property values decreases because the cost of the land is no longer a part of the house price. Learn more at www.greensboro-nc.gov/CLT. City’s Pilot Receivership Program Deemed a Success Since the City’s pilot Vacant Housing Receivership Program has been up and running, no cases have gone to court. City officials say that is a very good thing. The program allows City staff to seek a court appointed receiver to repair housing that is in such disrepair it has been ordered repaired or demolished. Twenty properties were selected for this program in 2020. All have been rehabilitated by their owners and returned to the community as safe and affordable housing – before the City had to take the case to court.

“This pilot program has shown us owners of abandoned, dilapidated and deteriorating properties will bring them up to the minimum housing standards when they face the real risk of losing control of their properties,” says the City’s Neighborhood Impact Manager Troy Powell. Learn more at www.greensboro-nc.gov/ Receivership. Code Compliance First in NC to be Certified in Mental Health Training The City’s Code Compliance Division has been certified in Mental Health First Aid by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The division is the first code compliance/enforcement division in NC to receive certification. Training sessions covered how to identify, understand, and provide assistance to people experiencing a mental health crisis or displaying signs of a substance use disorder. Code officers often come into contact with people experiencing difficult situations.

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