News & Blogs
Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge
January 17, 2020
The UNCG Center for Housing and Community Studies is excited to be a partner on a two-year award to Guilford County schools. The Fannie Mae Challenge $500,000 award will be used to promote construction trades and develop a pipeline to well-paying jobs while also addressing issues of housing repair in … Continued
Resilience High Point
December 5, 2019
Community Needs Assessment The High Point Resilience Action Group is an alliance of public, private, and non-profit organizations collaborating to develop integrated infrastructure that empowers all individuals and families to thrive. Resilience High Point aims to: ADDRESS income disparity by workforce development and education training. ADVOCATE for expanded and enhanced … Continued
CHCS Featured on Landgrid
December 5, 2019
The Center for Housing and Community Studies was featured in the December 2019 issue of People of Landgrid for our work using the Loveland Technologies parcel survey software in many of its projects across North Carolina. In 2019 Loveland merged its makeloveland.com and sitecontrol.us sites into landgrid.com: asimple site for … Continued
Health Impact Team
November 26, 2019
We are continuing to refine our Health Impact Team (HIT) process and expand referrals in order to provide comprehensive housing resource navigation and emergency repair assistance to low income households in order to improve housing stability, home habitability, and reduce housing cost burden.
Preliminary Findings of Water Quality Sampling
November 23, 2019
Our High Point Water Quality Study is still on-going. Some preliminary results point to a few possible contaminants: While 4% of homes were in the high range for lead, 31% of homes showed some level of lead contamination. Lead at any level is harmful for children. Chromium was found to … Continued