The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a $300,000 Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Planning Grant to Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority on behalf of a partnership that includes the City of Columbus, The Ohio State University, and National Church Residents. The grant application was prepared by Community Research Partners, and the grant was one of 13 awarded nationally.
Community Information Now (CI:Now) is a data and communications partner in San Antonio's Wheatley Choice Neighborhoods' partnership planning grant, assisting in gathering baseline data and developing tools and methods for measuring and talking about the project's progress over time. CI:Now also built partnership's initial web presence and will use new media and citizen journalism to support information exchange and community involvement.
The United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County has received a $150,000 grant over next 10 months from Annie E. Casey Foundation to implement a community-endorsed two-generation plan to provide programs for children that focus on healthy development, growth and education, as well as services for adults that concentrate on parenting, job skills and financial security.
Rise, formerly the Regional Housing and Community Development Alliance and the NNIP partner in St. Louis, is part of a team that was awarded a Choice Neighborhood Initiative planning grant. The Lead Grantee is the St. Louis County Department of Planning and the Initiative will focus on the Wellston Public Housing and the North Wellston Neighborhood (a suburb of St. Louis).
EastPoint PaCT (Promise and Choice Together) is a group of coordinated initiatives working to transform and revitalize the EastPoint neighborhood, a near-eastside area with a rich history and tradition. Among others, PaCT work includes the US DOE-funded Eastside Promise Neighborhood, the US HUD-funded Wheatley Choice Neighborhood, the US DOJ-funded Public Safety Enhancement initiatives attached to Promise and Choice, the Annie E.
NNIP partners bring their existing data holdings and deep relationships in the community to support the planning and implementation activities of place-based initiatives. Working collaboratively with a range of other local organizations, NNIP partners apply data in ways that enhance the effectiveness of these initiatives. A new series of briefs summarizes local partners' activities in 4 cities in federal place-based initiatives.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
December 18, 2015
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"Can San Francisco Get Mixed-Income Public Housing Redevelopment Right?" by NIMC's Mark Joseph and co-authors Nancy Latham, Rachel G. Kleit and Steven LaFrance discusses how the HOPE SF program is aiming to explicitly avoid many of the problems mixed-income public housing redevelopments have faced, to create a truly inclusive process.
