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Housing using Autho hori rity ty of the City ty of f New Bern Housing People. Changing Lives. Transforming a City/ Sustaining a Future CITY OF NEW BERN WHERE WE WERE New Bern: Before Affordable Housing New Bern: Before

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Transforming a City/ Sustaining a Future

Housing using Autho hori rity ty of the City ty of f New Bern

Housing People. Changing Lives.

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CITY OF NEW BERN

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 WHERE WE WERE

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New Bern: Before Affordable Housing

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New Bern: Before Affordable Housing

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New Bern: Before Affordable Housing

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  • Public Housing constructed

1939-1953,

(some units more than seventy years old)

  • State of the Art During

Construction

New Bern Housing Authority

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  • Established to provide decent and safe

rental housing

  • Accommodation of low-income families,

the elderly, and people with disabilities

  • Tended to be barracks construction
  • High density populations

History of Affordable Housing

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 New Bern Housing Authority

Trent Court Craven Terrace New Bern Towers Senior Housing THREE DEVELOPMENTS

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 WHERE WE ARE

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  • Housing Authority services 579 public

housing families. (Does not include over 700 units of section 8)

  • Our units do not fully or adequately

service the needs of our families

STATE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

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  • Compared to the current housing

standards, our units are functionally

  • bsolete
  • Current units struggle to meet the housing

needs of New Bern’s growing population

STATE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

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 Concentrated Housing

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 Aging & Outdated Units

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  • 114 Trent Ct., 42 Craven Terrace units in a flood

zone which equates to almost 30% of the inventory

  • An in-house appraisal found 21 irreparable

units

  • Without total rehab, another 180 units will cost

more to repair than is economically feasible

Compelling Statistics

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  • Inadequate Affordable Housing Options
  • High Unemployment
  • Large Number of Vacant & Business Locations
  • Few Community Based Jobs

PRESENT HOUSING ISSUES FACING CNI COMMUNITY

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  • Need for Enhanced Affordable Housing Options

and Business Development

  • CNI Community currently working co-operatively

to address the essential successful neighborhood components (Strategic partnerships focused on housing, economic, educational and community development)

PRESENT HOUSING ISSUES FACING CNI COMMUNITY

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New Bern Housing Authority WHERE ARE WE GOING

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PRIORITIZING CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES

  • (RAD)Rehabilitation of Craven

Terrace (TCG)

  • Tax Credit Application for

New Construction Senior Housing Complex (Shiff-Brody Partnership)

  • Rehabilitation of New Bern

Towers (Planning)

  • Partner with City of New Bern
  • f Third Ave revitalization
  • Partnership with City of

New Bern on Day’s Inn revitalization (Planning)

  • Initiation of Pollack St.

revitalization (Task Force)

  • All initiative include

Public/Private Partnerships and direct community involvement

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 PROGRESS

  • We are ahead of the process
  • RAD approved for Craven Terrace Public

housing portfolio

  • Engaged in planning process for rehab of

New Bern Towers

  • Selection of development Partners
  • Submission of 9% Tax credit App for

revitalization

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 PROGRESS

  • Completion of certain environmental

studies

  • Submission of historic Tax credit

application

  • Conducted various architectural and

engineering studies

  • Construction of neighborhood private,

public, educational partnerships

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 COMMUNITY VISION

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 The Process

Choice Neighborhood Initiatives Planning Grant

Choice Neighborhood Initiatives Implementation Grant

  • Safe, Decent&

Affordable Housing

  • Economic/Business

Development

  • Revitalization of

Greater Five Points

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  • Strengthening New Bern’s current and future co-operative

partnerships to enhance Neighborhood Revitalization, Diversity and Economic Development of the Greater Five Points Community

  • Create City-wide stakeholder commitment and opportunities

(Private, Public, Education, Religious, Community Residents, Business)

  • New Bern:

An Evolving City

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  • The current CNI Planning grant will assist the NBHA and the

City of New Bern in strategically planning and moving forward in achieving that goal

  • We seek to rehabilitate housing, rebuild businesses and provide

the foundation of economic revitalization throughout the CNI target area and throughout the City of New Bern

New Bern: An Evolving City

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  • With the assistance of HUD through CNI Planning Grant and

the potential for a subsequent CNI Implementation Grant , along with the continued city-wide and community commitment we will transform Greater Five Points and the City

  • f New Bern

New Bern: An Evolving City