Housing

→   Build and maintain a thriving and balanced housing market
→   Mitigate market disruptions with adverse impacts on existing residents
→   Foster home ownership opportunities through the corridor

In 2018, the Center for Community Investment designated Kaiser Permanente as the anchor health care institution to convene Accelerating Investments for Healthy Communities (AIHC) [centerforcommunityinvestment.org] in the Purple Line Corridor. The AIHC effort merged with the Purple Line Corridor Coalition’s Housing Action Team in 2019, and the combined effort has been named the Purple Line Corridor Coalition Housing Accelerator Action Team (HAAT).

HAAT has developed its first Housing Action Plan to guide the Coalition’s work over the next three years before the Purple Line opens. In 2019, the HAAT collected input from staff and elected leaders in both counties, and meeting with community organizations, developers, civic and faith-based organizations. A housing survey was conducted in summer 2019 with almost 600 residents responding. Recently approved County plans, policies and zoning updates that also reflect significant community input also inform the 12 Housing Action Plan recommendations.

                                                                                            View the full Housing Action Plan here: in English

                                                                                            View a summary of the Housing Action Plan here: in English 

                                                                                            View a summary of the Housing Action Plan here: in Spanish

The PLCC Housing Action Plan is designed as a living document that will evolve with the Coalition to frame and steer our strategic focus as we collectively work to assist to preserve the affordability and vitality of communities along the Purple Line. Creating the Coalition’s plan marks an important milestone in our progress, but there is much more work and change still to come. 

All communities along the corridor deserve decent housing and affordable choices, and this plan puts us on track and heading in the right direction to get there. We greatly value your ongoing support and look forward to working with you in the months ahead.

Resources

Past HAAT Meeting:

• June 12th, 2020 –Virtual meeting

→  Agenda

→  JOB POSTING: PLCC Housing Coordinator

→  State and Local Emergency & Eviction Prevention Rental Assistance

→  Underutilized Land & Multifamily Housing Inventory Projects in the Corridor-Update

→  JPMorgan Chase PRO Neighborhoods CDFI Capital – Contact Kladé Hare, Loan Officer, National Housing Trust,

      khare  @ nhtinc.org or 202-333-8931 x 131

• April 17th, 2020–Virtual meeting

→   Agenda

→   Introduction Presentation

→   Underutilized Land & Multifamily Housing Inventory Projects in the Corridor-Update

→   Montgomery Planning Preservation Study

→   Outline Montgomery County Housing Initiatives by Council member Reimer

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