This month’s Fresh Fridays featured a lively conversation that was focused on the people and organizations who are working on commercial and residential tenant organizing in Rhode Island.
One Neighborhood Builders was joined by Mel Potter, Emily Harrington, and Shana Crandell, and facilitated a discussion that level-set the conversation with an overview of what a tenant union is, highlighted the work of several of Rhode Island’s commercial and residential tenant unions, and discussed the future of this organizing work.
This month’s Fresh Fridays featured an insightful conversation on the future of community development, economic mobility, and affordable housing in Rhode Island amid a shifting federal landscape. In a one-on-one conversation, United Way of Rhode Island President & CEO, Cortney Nicolato, interviewed One Neighborhood Builders’ new President & CEO, Peter Chapman, to discuss the key issues shaping their organization’s work.
This month’s Fresh Fridays webinar focused on the importance and challenges of home repair programs. The discussion centered around maintaining the affordability and safety of homes, particularly for low-income homeowners, and how these repair programs fit into broader housing strategies.
This month, Fresh Fridays considered how shared ownership of resources help make local communities more economically equitable. Community wealth building is a model for communities to directly own and control their resources. Recognizing that many common economic development models do not work for many communities, community wealth building incorporates worker cooperatives, community land trusts, housing cooperatives, public banking, and other tools to strengthen local economies.
This month’s Fresh Friday featured a group of panelists discussing the important topic of adaptive reuse and affordable housing development. Throughout New England and the US, there are publicly- and privately-owned buildings that no longer serve their original use – mills, churches, school buildings, and much more. As communities work to address the housing crisis, they are increasingly looking to these existing assets as potential affordable housing.
La sesión de Fresh Friday de este mes reunió a un grupo de expertos para debatir el tema fundamental de la accesibilidad y la inclusión en la participación comunitaria, con especial atención a la justicia para discapacitados y los espacios multilingües en las reuniones comunitarias.
Esta semana Fresh Friday describe el panorama actual y los retos de la crisis de la vivienda y los sin techo. Los panelistas debaten sobre política, recopilación de datos y colaboración en los sistemas de vivienda y de personas sin hogar.
El Fresh Friday de este mes contó con la participación de profesionales que están impulsando reformas en la aplicación de códigos en Rhode Island y un debate en el que se analizaron estrategias que pueden hacer que la aplicación de códigos sea más equitativa y eficaz para mejorar la calidad y la estabilidad de la vivienda.
El debate exploró herramientas y estrategias que permiten a las comunidades avanzar hacia "tenerlo todo": conservar la tierra y los espacios abiertos, preservar las granjas, desarrollar viviendas asequibles, crear espacios verdes para el recreo, etc.
El debate se centró en los numerosos retos a los que se enfrentan los promotores inmobiliarios a la hora de construir y financiar viviendas asequibles en Rhode Island y en todo el país, como la adquisición de terrenos, la rehabilitación medioambiental, los costes de construcción, los requisitos de diseño y los plazos de urbanización.
