Urban-Greater DC partners with the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development to manage the DC Preservation Network, a group of government agencies and community-based organizations working to preserve affordable housing in the District of Columbia. Urban-Greater DC maintains and updates the DC Preservation Catalog, a database of rental properties with units affordable to low-income households (at or below 80% area median income) through one or more federal or local housing subsidy programs.
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is currently no charge for these products, but users are asked to register and let us know how they use our work. Children's Optimal Health works to improve operations, impact policy, engage the community and support research to improve the health and well-being of all children in Central Texas.
In late 2014 and early 2015, Rise contributed to the revision of the City of St. Louis' Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, collecting and interpreting a range of data on demographics, housing needs, and Racially/Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty, and drafting concrete action steps to alleviate impediments to fair housing.
During Idea Showcases, partners highlight or talk about the great work their organization is doing. This time, we decided to have a theme to feature partners' efforts to support affordable housing supply (both government-subsidized and non-subsidized) with data, analysis and engagement. Our three partner presenters were:
