Community Engagement – Mosaic Community Planning

Orange County, FL: Consolidated Plan, Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, HOME-ARP Allocation Plan, Language Access Plan

Orange County, home of Orlando and an array of smaller cooperating cities, anchors the rapidly growing Central Florida region. The County’s Housing and Community Development Division was overwhelmed with an influx of federal and state pandemic relief funding, the creation of a new locally-funded affordable housing trust fund, and then a tranche of CDBG-DR funding […]

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Greenville, NC: Consolidated Plan, Assessment of Fair Housing, and Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy

Jeremy Gray

The City of Greenville, NC, was interested in providing a wide range of community engagement opportunities for residents in order to receive meaningful community input on opportunities, goals, and strategies, as well as feedback on the City’s existing strategies and programs. To achieve these goals, Mosaic designed a comprehensive community engagement process that provided a

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Westerville, OH: Attainable Housing Study

Jeremy Gray

In 2021-2022, Mosaic Community Planning collaborated with the City of Westerville to complete a study of the City’s housing stock with a focus on assessing current and future attainability of housing in the city. Unique to this project was the drafting of a community-informed definition for “attainable housing”. Not wanting to strictly adhere to HUD’s

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

Jeremy Gray

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

Jeremy Gray

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

Jeremy Gray

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

Jeremy Gray

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

Jeremy Gray

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

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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

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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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