How your organization can partner with Habitat

Evan Covington ChavezVP, Program Operations

Wake County HFH (Raleigh)

Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative

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Habitat’s NRI model

An affiliatedecides to use the NRI model.

The affiliate’s service model is contextualized to each specific neighborhood.

1. What is necessary for the highest quality of life in the focus neighborhood?

2. What are the appropriate community partnerships to achieve No. 1?

3. What housing products are appropriate?

4. How are they attractive to donors?5. What are the new and innovative

volunteer mobilization strategies? 7

REPAIRS

Neighborhood Revitalization

Critical Home Repairs

•Repairs to alleviate health, life and safety/code issues

A Brush with Kindness• Exterior

painting and minor repair

Weatherization• Improve energy

efficiency and indoor air quality

New• Habitat• Other

partners– higher incomes; rental

Rehabilitation• Habitat• Other partners

– higher incomes; rental

Advocacy Lending services

Community development

Full Spectrum

Familyservices

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• Focus on community deficits

• Fragmented understanding of the community associations

• Externally based solutions

NRI is advocating asset-based community development

Needs based vs Asset based

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• Broad understanding of potential assets

• Integrated understanding of community associations

• Emphasizes home-grown, appropriate, and sustainable solutions.

Types of Collaborations

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•7 new homebuyers

•15 A Brush With Kindness touches

•52% decrease in crime between the first 6

months of 2010 to the first six months of 2012

Long Acres (Pilot)

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New initiatives

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• 3 new neighborhood coalitions formed or forming

• 25 ABWK planned• Partnerships include: residents; city

departments; local churches; and other corporate and nonprofit groups

• Infill development planned in collaboration with local community (“NRI-like”)

• Durham’s Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life

• Six neighborhoods• Residents spent several years organizing and determining

their vision• Durham Community Land Trust, Habitat, Self-Help and

Builders of Hope built over 80 homes in five years • Address need for low-income senior housing through

partnership between DHIC, Durham Community Land Trust, Duke and Self-Help

• Continued presence and work ongoing today!

From the Other Side

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