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Greensboro’s New Housing Code Policy
September 21, 2015
By: Beth McKee-Huger (Community Housing Advocate) On September 1, 2015, Greensboro City Council adopted changes to the city housing ordinance, Chapter 11 of the municipal codes, with the purpose of preserving housing by turning around unsafe housing conditions as quickly as possible. Please share the following information with tenants, rental … Continued
CHCS Upcoming Canvassing Dates and Details
August 31, 2015
Inclusive information on upcoming CHCS canvassing dates Rebecca Harrelson No one should be living in unsafe housing conditions in Greensboro NC. Especially when we have able bodies to rid others of this burden. The UNCG Center for Housing and Community Studies is conducting a study to identify residents in low … Continued
Yes! Weekly: Layers of Data
July 7, 2015
On June 17, 2015, Jeff Sykes wrote about the CHCS in Yes! Weekly: “Community groups like the Greensboro Housing Coalition, Cone Health System, and others, possess mountains of data showing a connection between substandard housing, environmental conditions and poor health, but it’s often difficult to translate the data for policy … Continued
CHCS Feature Article in Yes! Weekly
July 7, 2015
Layers of Data – By Jeff Sykes June 17, 2015 “The Center for Housing and Community Studies, formed under the leadership of Stephen Sills, a sociology professor with a long track record of housing research, is aggregating data from a variety of sources into geospatial maps with the potential to … Continued
Piedmont Triad Fair Housing Equity Assessment
July 1, 2015
Click here to read the executive summary of the Piedmont Triad North Carolina Regional Fair Housing Equity Assessment.
The Battleground of Housing in the South
May 15, 2015
Housing has quickly emerged as a battleground in the debates and struggles around social justice and inequality. The preceding anecdotes, collected by the Immigrant Assistance Center of FaithAction International House, the researchers for the Strategic Study of the State of Human Relations in Greensboro Report, the Greensboro Housing Coalition, and the … Continued
Racial Segregation in the Piedmont
May 15, 2015
Both a casual observation of our neighborhoods and recent Census data reveals that we live in a racially segregated region. The few studies that have been done suggest that discrimination is responsible in part for this segregation. A measure of segregation is found in the dissimilarity index. This index (also … Continued
Fair Housing Equity Assessment Executive Summary
May 14, 2015
Piedmont Triad North Carolina Regional Fair Housing Equity Assessment Executive Summary prepared for The Piedmont Triad Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Project. 2013-piedmont-triad-fhea-executive-summary