What We Do: Community Initiatives: Field Building

Community Initiatives

Community Builders is a leader in the design and implementation of resident initiatives to support strong, diverse neighborhoods. Through our HOPE VI public housing transformation practice, we have refined an approach and a set of tools to help low-income residents make successful transitions from poor quality public or assisted housing environments to new economically and socially mixed communities.

With generous support from the Ford Foundation’s Mixed-Income/
Mixed-Race (MI/MR) Housing Initiative, we have prepared a Practitioner’s Guide to share ideas and resources with affordable housing developers, community leaders and policy makers.

Examining our own experience and the work of other developers and researchers, the Guide:

Describes effective practices in developing mixed-income, mixed-race housing
Shares program tools and guidance
Highlights efforts under way to advance the field

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the challenge of promoting resident success, illustrating how resident initiatives align with different stages of the physical development process.

Chapters 2-5 describe site activities in more detail during the Planning, Pre-Occupancy/Readiness, Transition, and Post-Occupancy periods, respectively. Within each period, the Guide sets the development context and then describes core activities, key actors/relationships, and staffing and budget requirements. Various Community Builders tools and templates are referenced in the text, and included as Attachments for consultation, use, and adaptation by practitioners.

Chapter 6 describes field-building efforts currently under way.

Download Report:

Download Overview and Summary Tables [7 pages, in .pdf]
Download main text [42 pages, in .pdf]
Download the full report with Attachments [115 pages, in .pdf]

Download Individual Attachments:

A: Resident Initiatives Template
B: Initial Community Asset/Resources Scan
C: Basic Funding Sources for Resident Programs
D: Site Types, Expected Outcomes & Budgets
E: Admissions & Occupancy Options/Implementation Issues
F: Initial Assessment for Leasholders & Other Adults
G: Case Management Model & Practice
H: Individual Success Plan Template
I: Case Management Information System Screenshots
- Home
- Services
- Services Chart
- Placement
- Referral by Agency
- Success Plan
- Referral Template
- Employed Template
J: Housing Readiness Training Curriculum
K: Site Provider Network Template
L: Family-Unit Matching Matrix
M: Asset Building Options
N: Sample Job Descriptions
- Program Manager - Large Site
- Program Manager - Small Site
- Resident Services Coordinator
O: PM/CI Management Protocol
P: Watch List & Early Intervention Tools
- Watch List Intervention Protocol
- Watch List Intervention Form
- Watch List Intervention Template
Q: Household Demographic/Income
R: Domestic Violence Protocol
S: Violent Incident Protocol
T: Elizabeth Park HOPE VI Advisor
U: Site Planning Template

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