Workshop Descriptions
Putting it Together: Fostering Healthy Communities through Economic, Housing & Community Development
In New Orleans, neighborhood associations can be a powerful force. Learn how a coalition of Central City community organizations have created quality affordable housing opportunity using cluster development, commercial corridors, and strong working relationships between housing developers, management and neighborhood stakeholders. While anyone is welcome to attend, this workshop was created with neighborhood leaders and members of neighborhood associations in mind.
Central City Renaissance Alliance; New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative; Oretha Castle Haley Merchants and Business Association
Community Benefit Agreements: Documenting Consensus & Formalizing Agreements as Anti-NIMBY Strategies
How can developers be accountable to neighborhood groups while moving affordable housing projects forward? Learn how Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs) and other consensus-building tools can be used (and misused) by developers and community groups to foster collaboration and guarantee mutual benefit. While anyone is welcome to attend, this workshop was created with mission driven housing developers in mind.
Renaissance Neighborhood Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Volunteers of America; Fermina Research Group, LLC
Exclusionary Practices & Inclusionary Policies: Approaches to Addressing Community Opposition to Affordable Housing
How can the public sector implement regulatory policies that support the creation of affordable housing throughout the community? Learn how Inclusionary Zoning and other regulatory approaches can be used to create affordable housing in neighborhoods across a community. While anyone is welcome to attend, this workshop was created with policy advocates and attorneys in mind.
Affordable to Who? Accountable to Who? Organizing Against NIMBYism
STAND will discuss its grassroots organizing approaches and strategies for building power in low-income and displaced African American communities to ensure the full-inclusion and voices of the most vulnerable residents in the reconstruction of New Orleans. The workshop will creatively examine the strengths and challenges of STAND’s housing campaign to create community oversight and resident inclusion in HANO’s Federal receivership, as an integral component to re-establishing housing as a basic human right. While anyone is welcome to attend, this workshop was created with grassroots organizers in mind.
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