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Housing has been a significant issue in recent years, especially in our rural communities. That is why we have released our 📘"Housing Toolkit 1.0": to help address these challenges. This comprehensive guide offers practical solutions and strategies to create sustainable and affordable housing options. It's an essential resource for developers, policymakers, and community leaders. Let's work together to improve housing in our state! Check out the toolkit below. #CommunityDevelopment #AffordableHousing #SustainableLiving #DakotaResources

CLT Resource Alert: Our Researchers are attending today's webinar, "Chinatown Land Trusts in Action: A Path to Community Resilience," hosted by Next City. For decades, Chinatowns have collectively acquired properties via community land trusts to resist being displaced in gentrifying neighborhoods. Tune into the conversation with us today, hosted by Oscar Abello, to understand the new challenges CLTs now face and how communities are organizing in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Boston https://lnkd.in/ejXbu2UR?

WHAT'S UP, WELLAND | S3E18 🎙 When a municipality commits to downtown revitalization, the pivotal place to start is with a visionary and well-informed plan. That’s where the City of #WellandON finds itself and that’s exactly what we’re doing. Consultants have been chosen, community engagement will soon commence, and a downtown-focussed improvement plan will take shape. Grant Munday, the City’s director of planning and development services, discusses the what, why, and how of updating the Downtown Community Improvement Plan, the economic significance of downtown revitalization, and how critical a component public consultation and engagement will be throughout this phased endeavour. https://lnkd.in/ed653ihE

Lots of stimulating conversation at last week’s Community Land Trust Network conference. Some key take-aways (hopefully accurate) • collaboration and partnership were top of the agenda for how to scale community ownership/stewardship (we’ve got lots of thoughts on this! https://lnkd.in/gxXiNe6p ) • Lots of lessons to learn from Kennet CLTs partnership with Bellway Homes, and Aster Homes are the largest RP partner to rural CLTs… • …but only 20% of local authority officers feel they have the support they need to work in a different way - Pooja Agrawal / PUBLIC PRACTICE • meanwhile Daniel Hill highlighted that 80% of homes built by the largest housebuilders are run by private management companies - a model that has been highly criticised by the Competition and Markets Authority • all of this raising questions for what community led management/stewardship models could look like (we’ve lots of thoughts on this too!) - one option being Public Commons Partnerships, nicely framed as “public sector access to finance with community led governance” (forgot the speaker, sorry). Looking forward to picking these ideas up at Housing 2024 this week!

Learn more about affordable housing in this informative video from the City of Raleigh Municipal Government: What is Affordable Housing? https://lnkd.in/gFX42fZC

Really pleased to publish another piece of research today. Community Ownership: A Way Forward for Wales highlights the many challenges faced by communities in Wales wanting to take on management or ownership of assets. The research, conducted by Plunkett UK (thanks to Chris Cowcher's team, and particularly Georgina Edwards), examines the strengths and weaknesses in the English and Scottish legislative approaches. It identifies key aspects that actually result in increased community ownership. We include a set of eight recommendations- some short-term and low-cost and others more long-term and intensive. You can read the research in full here: https://lnkd.in/e-Y-d3Wg

Overcoming challenges in housing inventory development requires collaboration & dedication. Learn valuable lessons from experts in the field & see how technology & community engagement can drive successful housing initiatives.

I have attended this conference at various times throughout my 21 years as a real estate professional... so it is a real honor to be selected as a presenter/panelist on the topic of proactive, authentic community engagement and integration as an essential aspect of affordable housing development at this year's Florida Housing Coalition Annual Statewide Affordable Housing Conference🏘💥💯. Session Deets: Turn Opposers to Supporters: Tips for Engaging Elected Officials and Stakeholders to Overcome NIMBYs Tuesday, August 27 at 3:45pm Moderator: Suzanne Cabrera, CFRE Speakers: Christic Henry, George Kruse, Jon D. Brown, Ellen O'Conner, John Rodriguez Session Summary: Too often, housing advocates struggle to gain the support of local elected officials as well as neighbors in their plans to increase housing for those most in need. When they do, at times they are met with concerns about public perceptions, lack of funding or the desire to maintain the status quo of neighborhoods. In this interactive session, participants will explore proactive strategies to address NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) opposition in housing and community development projects, emphasizing the importance of community engagement, building trust, collaboration, and understanding with stakeholders, and getting to yes with your local officials by properly framing the request. I look forward to interacting with attendees and co-presenters on this topic... and I promise to go live📸😊. #innovation #affordability #accessibility #attainable #housingforall #community #value #trustbuilding #consensusmatters #annualhousingconference #FHC

Discover how to overcome the 4 Biggest Challenges in Housing and Community Development. Martin Greenlee shares expert insights on navigating budget constraints, staff turnover, outdated processes, and timely spending. Explore practical strategies to enhance your HCD projects and make an even greater impact in your community: https://hubs.la/Q02yp6kJ0

"The Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook is for local elected officials and community planners working to boost diverse, attainable, and equitable housing supply in communities nationwide.  All housing market participants, public and private, must step up and do more to achieve lasting improvements in housing supply."