Community Engagement – Mosaic Community Planning

United Way of Greater Atlanta: North Fulton County Homeless Needs Assessment

Housing and service providers, the faith-based community, the Fulton County Continuum of Care, and local governments provide a range of housing and services to address the unique needs of people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness in North Fulton County, including homelessness prevention, emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and a wide range of homelessness …

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Bexar County, TX: HUD Community Development Planning

Beginning in fall 2020, Mosaic assisted Bexar County to prepare its 2021-2025 Five-Year Consolidated Plan, 2021 Annual Action Plan, and an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. With twelve participating jurisdictions, hearing from community members throughout the area was important to the County, and made particularly challenging by restrictions on in-person meetings due to …

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Fresno, CA: Consolidated Plan and Fair Housing Study

Fresno is California’s fifth-largest city, with a diverse population of over 525,000 residents. When embarking on development of a new five-year Consolidated Plan and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, the City sought to reset its public engagement process, deploying an array of new strategies designed to reach more deeply into its communities and …

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Camas, WA: Housing Action Plan

When the City of Camas updated its Comprehensive Plan in 2016, one of the community’s priorities was to ensure that, despite Camas’s rapid growth and relatively high housing prices, there would remain “a wide variety and range of housing for all ages and income levels.” To further study the City’s housing needs and develop an …

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Atlanta, GA: Consolidated Plan and Regional Fair Housing Study

In some communities, priorities and goals barely change from one plan to the next. Not so in Atlanta. Atlanta’s 2020 Consolidated Plan arrived at a time of transition for the City. A new leadership structure unifying management of the City’s HUD-funded programs under one office had to be reflected as well as significant changes to …

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Cobb County, GA: Community Transformation Plan for the Marietta, GA Housing Authority

The Marietta Housing Authority is an active developer with a track record of many outstanding Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) projects. However, when the state added a new Community Transformation Plan component to the LIHTC requirements in 2017, the Marietta Housing Authority turned to Mosaic to pioneer the development of this new planning process. …

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La Crosse, WI: Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice

When it came time for the City of La Crosse to develop a new Analysis of Impediments, it sought to bring into the process other jurisdictions and organizations throughout the region, several of whom were not under any HUD requirement to prepare an AI but joined the effort nonetheless. The cooperation among the regional partners …

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Twin Cities: Regional Fair Housing Study

In the Twin Cities, Mosaic worked with the Fair Housing Implementation Council, a client group of 15 cities and counties, to develop an analysis of housing development patterns and their impact on social equity. Our work included geospatial analysis of the locations of subsidized affordable housing, an exploration of market trends in unsubsidized “naturally occurring” …

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San Bernardino County, CA: HUD Community Development Planning

San Bernardino County is the largest county in the U.S. and is characterized by a mix of dense urbanized areas, vast open desert, and small alpine communities in the mountains. As an Urban County with many individual municipalities cooperating in the County’s CDBG program, the public engagement around the Consolidated Plan and Analysis of Impediments …

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Atlanta, GA: Community Engagement for Arden Avenue LIHTC Application

Prestwick Companies, an Atlanta-based multifamily developer, has a strong record of success developing affordable rental housing under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The highly competitive LIHTC program is administered in Georgia by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and receives nearly 100 applications for financing each year from projects across the state. …

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