Stephen Sills – The Center for Housing and Community Studies

Mapping Equitable Communities

GIS for Social Good An address is more than where a person lives and receives mail. Places dictate what kind of opportunities people will have, their access to healthy food, education, jobs, and even how long they will live. Mapping can be a powerful visual aid for people to understand their communities and relationships within it. Maps display where things are located (or not), patterns and trends,...

Get the Lead Out!

Properties built before 1978 often used lead in paint and other building materials. These materials may be hazardous to the health of residents today. The City of Greensboro provides lead paint hazard reduction services at no cost as part of its Lead Safe Housing Program. Lead-Safe Greensboro provides grants to assist owners of single- and multi-family dwellings and rental properties with addressing...

When to call code enforcement

In this session we will hear from Mr. Troy Powell, Code Compliance Division Manager at the City of Greensboro. The Code Compliance Division investigates more than 11,000 properties per year to determine if reported issues violate City of Greensboro’s Code of Ordinances. By ensuring safe, healthy places to live, work and play, the division’s staff helps reduce the risk of declining...

Equitable Housing Solutions & Community Violence

The United Nations declared “the right to adequate housing” to be a fundamental human right in 1991. Affordable and safe housing is a necessity for good health and for healthy communities. Poor and inadequate housing conditions are associated with negative physical and mental health outcomes. Similarly, the environmental and social characteristics of neighborhoods impact health outcomes and negative...

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week Panel

Panel: Homelessness in our Community Dr. Stephen Sills, Professor and Director, The Center for Housing and Community Studies, moderates this community-focused panel of professionals who are working to address homelessness in Greensboro. Speakers include representatives from Tiny Houses Greensboro, The Servant Center, NC Housing Coalition, and more! The panelist contact information and website links...

Emergency Rental Assistance , Eviction Mediation, & COVID Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic has not impacted housing so as much as it has exposed the underlying conditions resulting from a century of inequalities in access to safe, affordable, and decent housing. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being explored, but early data suggests that the wealth gap has grown as inequalities in employment, education, and housing have worsened for many households....

A discussion on rising evictions amid an affordable housing crisis

ncIMPACT Initiative host Anita Brown-Graham is joined by Sofia Crisp, Michelle Kennedy, and Stephen Sills to talk about the shortage of safe, affordable housing in Guilford County and the high rate of evictions.

Guilford County Vaccine Perspectives

COMMUNITY INVITED TO COMPLETE SURVEY ON PERSPECTIVES OF COVID19 VACCINE Greensboro, NC – The Guilford County Department of Public Health in partnership with the UNC Greensboro Center for Housing and Community Studies have jointly launched am online public survey to help obtain information from residents throughout Guilford County on their perspectives on receiving the COVID19 Vaccine. The survey...

Tenant Leadership Academy Recruitment

October 2021 – Housing Hangout

About this event President Joe Biden came into office at the beginning of this year on waves of expectation, not least in the area of national housing policy. His campaign offered a $640 billion affordable housing plan and promised to fight predatory lenders and landlords, make Section 8 an entitlement, restore fair housing enforcement and much more. Once in office, the administration put housing...

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