Housing

These housing projects combine regional organization experience in technology, planning and coordination, resulting in housing opportunities that support regional economic and community development.

Creating accurate, low cost and replicable housing needs assessments for Wilkinson County is the trinity of the Wilkinson County Housing Needs Assessment Project. Using GPS, GIS and training from the Middle Georgia Regional Development Center, county personnel have located and mapped all county housing unit conditions. Field- collectors submitted GPS rover data to Middle Georgia RDC for post-processing and differential correction. The results were: countywide maps showing housing densities based on condition levels and a GIS software-based housing needs assessment report.

South Delta Planning and Development District, Inc. is upgrading housing conditions for low to moderate-income homeowners and also enhancing neighborhood esthetics with the City of Drew HOME Project. The City of Drew demolished five existing housing structures and constructed five new units for low to moderate-income homeowners. While cleaning up dilapidated housing units and portions of the small city, the project also provided five families with energy efficient new homes. The Mississippi Development Authority Home Investment Partnership program provided project funding.

Brazos Valley Council of Governments and Coalition Partners in Texas will simultaneously build 15 homes in a newly created subdivision bordering a blighted area, increasing tax revenues and offering youth activities under the Washington Park Subdivision Development Project. Labor will be provided through the youth build program. The city is furnishing the infrastructure. The affordable housing corporation is providing the oversight, financing and responsibility for home sales to qualified low-income buyers. The workforce development board will be compensating instructors and providing needed youth stipends.

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