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Call for Position Papers
Announcing: A call for Position Papers
Members have named some of the issues they claim are important for them and of critical importance to the Mt. Hope Community either now or at some point in the near future.
This is a call for members to participate in the preparation of position papers on a number of these subjects:
New Affordable Housing in Mt. Hope,
Green Space in Mt. Hope,
Code Enforcement, Zoning, and Preservation of Historical Character in Mt. Hope.
I will outline some points that I think each position paper should cover but to which they are not strictly limited.
New Affordable Housing in Mt. Hope (NAH)
This paper should cover the following:
Is there a greater need for more affordable housing in Mt. Hope compared to other East Side neighborhoods? If someone or some organization has identified a need, upon what statistical evidence is this need based?
A Statistical analysis of housing in Mt. Hope: number of Section 8 tenants, number of subsidized units, number of tax subsidized units targeted toward low income buyers, percentage of SH/AH units in Mt. Hope compared to other East Side neighborhoods.
An annalysis of income demographics in Mt. Hope and the impact of adding more affordable housing to the existing stock of affordable units on the population of Mt. Hope and on the income demographics of Mt. Hope.
How do the people/organizations proposing more "afordable housing" in Mt. Hope define “Affordable Housing”. By "affordable housing" do they also mean "subsidized housing."
Do planned/proposed affordable housing projects include plans for buyers or renters. If they include units for renters, would they include units available for section 8 vouchers. How many section 8 units would be included in such porposals?
Would the proposed affordable/subsidized housing be permitted, zoned, or designed to make them compatible with the historical character of the existing Mt. Hope housing stock?
Who are the people/organizations proposing New Affordable Housing in Mt. Hope? Do they live in Mt. Hope? What is their stake in the neighborhood? What is their motivation?
Where will the money come from for NAH in Mt. Hope.
And don’t stop there. Be as thorough as possible in examining the pros and cons of having more affordable housing added to the Mt. Hope housing stock.
Much data is out there to be mined. Our new Political Liaison Officer may be called in to help guide the authors research, but first we need to identify members willing to form a working group to tackle this position paper.
I will next post guidelines on the other topics.
If interested in contributing you may use the comments tab or call or email me or you can PM me (private message) by using the white submission box on the blog; just be sure you write "Private Message, not for posting" at the very top.
If no members are willing to take on this task we will drop this issue from the GCCC agenda for 2005.
Posted by John Twomey
Posted at March 18, 2005 01:50 PM