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COMMUNITY PLANNING AND NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION

Identifying Workable Community Revitalization Strategies
Course No. 24

Analytical Tools for Evaluating Neighborhood Conditions
Course No. 25

Choosing and Implementing a Community Revitalization Strategy
Course No. 26

Presented by

Michael Collins
Dan Marckel
Marcia Nedland
Michael Schubert

NeighborWorks® Training Institute
Oakland, California
November 15-19, 1999

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TAB 1          INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO REVITALIZATION COURSES

• Subject Introduction and Course Theory
• Learning Objectives
• Agenda
• Ground Rules

TAB 2          SETTING THE STAGE FOR EXPLORING A MARKET-BASED APPROACH TO NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION

• Historic Overview of Efforts to Revitalize Cities and Neighborhoods
• Framework for a Market-based Approach to Neighborhood Revitalization
• Contrasting Affordable Housing Production and Neighborhood Revitalization
• Why Do We Gravitate to the Affordable Housing Model?
• CASE STUDY: The Armory, Providence, Rhode Island

TAB 3          READING: The Myth of Community Development

TAB 4          READING CHOICE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

• Physical Condition
• Market
• Image
• Neighborhood Management

TAB 5          NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION OUTCOMES

• READING: Leveraging Home Ownership Promotion as a Tool for Neighborhood Revitalization

TAB 6           Using Marketing Theory to Create Programs and Strategies That Influence Choice

• EXERCISE: How Is Choice Working in Your Neighborhood Now?
• Seven Steps in Developing Market-Based Programs/Products
• Example of Market-Based Program Development

TAB 7           GETTING STARTED WITH RESEARCH

• Overview of Neighborhood Conditions Analysis
• Checklist of Research Questions
• Ten Tips for Designing Successful Research

TAB 8           FINDING THE DATA

• Market Research Questions Based on Program Area
• Practitioner. s Guide to Census and Other Data Sources
• Data Menu
• Tips for Conducting a Resident Survey
• Resident Satisfaction Survey
• Gathering Information from Real Estate Agents
• Phone Interview Questions for Real Estate Agents
• Techniques for Gathering Information from Appraisers
• Other Key Informants
• Reading: Expanding the Scope of Community Development

TAB 9           ANALYZING THE DATA

• Ten Analytical Tools and Their Application
• Digging into the Data Worksheet

TAB 10           MEASURING THE IMPACT OF REVITALIZATION STRATEGIES

• Measuring Neighborhood Change: The Neighborhood Revitalization Through Home Ownership Pilot
• The Community Indicators Handbook

TAB 11          BACKGROUND DATA ON CASE STUDY NEIGHBORHOOD

TAB 12           COMMUNICATING THE DATA

• Communication Strategies

TAB 13          WALKING NEIGHBORHOODS

• The Neighborhood Walk
• Worksheet: Neighborhood Impressions
• Worksheet: Debriefing the Neighborhood Tour

TAB 14          DEVELOPING A REVITALIZATION STRATEGY

• Exercise: Your Community Revitalization Plan
• Components to a Revitalization Strategy and Plan

TAB 15           IMPLEMENTING REVITALIZATION STRATEGIES

• CASE STUDY: Marshall Heights Neighborhood
• SELF-ASSESSMENT: Are You Ready? Organizing to Influence Choice in Neighborhoods
• Key Points in Revitalization Strategy Development and Implementation
• READING: A Checklist of Questions for Redirecting Neighborhood Revitalization

Subject Introduction and Course Theory

IDENTIFYING WORKABLE COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION STRATEGIES:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Challenge conventional wisdom about neighborhoods

• Differentiate contexts of neighborhood revitalization and affordable housing production

• Emphasize the importance of choice in neighborhood change

• Introduce methods for reading and influencing choice in neighborhoods
  

Agenda

IDENTIFYING WORKABLE COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION STRATEGIES:
AGENDA

Today

A.M.: Understanding the impact of choice in neighborhoods

P.M.: Reading choice in neighborhoods

Tomorrow

A.M.: Influencing choice

P.M.: Organizing the capacity to influence choice

Learning Objectives

IDENTIFYING WORKABLE COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION STRATEGIES:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Challenge conventional wisdom about neighborhoods

• Differentiate contexts of neighborhood revitalization and affordable housing production

• Emphasize the importance of choice in neighborhood change

• Introduce methods for reading and influencing choice in neighborhoods

Ground Rules

GROUND RULES

• Suspend disbelief — try on unconventional ideas

• Help us make this relevant to your situation

• Contribute thoughts and ideas — this is constantly evolving

• Keep a sense of humor