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 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.
A sessão Fresh Friday deste mês reuniu um painel de especialistas para debater o tema crítico da acessibilidade e da inclusão no envolvimento da comunidade, com um enfoque específico na justiça em matéria de deficiência e nos espaços multilingues nas reuniões da comunidade
A Fresh Friday desta semana descreve o panorama atual e os desafios da crise da habitação e dos sem-abrigo. Os membros do nosso painel debatem a política, a recolha de dados e a colaboração no âmbito dos sistemas de habitação e dos sem-abrigo
A Fresh Friday deste mês contou com a participação de profissionais que estão a promover reformas na aplicação do código em Rhode Island e um debate que considerou estratégias que podem tornar a aplicação do código mais equitativa e eficaz para melhorar a qualidade e a estabilidade da habitação.
O debate explorou ferramentas e estratégias que permitem às comunidades avançar no sentido de "ter tudo" - conservar a terra e o espaço aberto, preservar as explorações agrícolas, desenvolver habitação a preços acessíveis, criar espaços verdes para recreio e muito mais.
O debate centrou-se nos muitos desafios que os promotores enfrentam quando constroem e financiam habitações a preços acessíveis em Rhode Island e em todo o país, incluindo a aquisição de terrenos, a reparação ambiental, os custos de construção, os requisitos de conceção e os prazos de desenvolvimento.
