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Posted on November 11, 2019
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Posted on November 15, 2019
GUILFORD COUNTY ALCOHOL & OPIOIDS
Posted on November 22, 2019
Deficits in Supply vs. Demand for Housing
Posted on November 23, 2019
Preliminary Findings of Water Quality Sampling
Posted on 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 be higher than the “safe” level of 1 ppm in 57% of homes. Nitrates were found at a higher than safe level in 21% of homes. We will release final results of this project in a few weeks when all of our samples have been collected.
Health Impact Team
Posted on 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.
CHCS Featured on Landgrid
Posted on December 05, 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 property data, parcel maps, and field surveys.
Read more about our work using Landgrid at https://landgrid.com/pages/stephen-sills
Resilience High Point
Posted on December 05, 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:
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ADDRESS income disparity by workforce development and education training.
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ADVOCATE for expanded and enhanced transportation systems.
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PROVIDE mental health and resilience (trauma) training to any service provider.
Housing Issues of Immigrants & Refugees
Posted on January 02, 2020
UNCG CHCS Feb 2020 Housing Hangout
Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge
Posted on 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 our community. Guilford County Schools was one of five groups nationwide to be awarded a contract in phase three of the Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge.
The “Safer Together Green Housing” is an ambitious project that will require collaboration between Cone Health, the City of Greensboro, the Greensboro Housing Coalition, the Regional Council of Governments and two research centers at UNCG. It will act as an extension of the work that the Invest Health project, sponsored by UNCG, has already done, which has led to over $4.5 million in neighborhood revitalization projects.
Once in place, ”Safer Together Green Housing” will aim to rehab 40 homes every year, and plans to grow the CTE construction program to graduate approximately 100 students annually from at least five schools in GCS and provide a model for countless public school districts across the country.
Read more at in this Greensboro New and Record article by Jessie Pounds, Jan 15, 2020: Guilford schools win $500K contract from Fannie Mae; students learning trades will earn money repairing local substandard housing