Fair Housing and Equity – 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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Lewiston, ID: Consolidated Plan, Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, and Citizen Participation Plan

Jeremy Gray

Mosaic partnered with the City of Lewiston, ID on its 2018-2022 Consolidated Plan and again on its 2023-2027 Consolidated Plan and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. For both planning efforts, our team designed in-depth community engagement processes, providing a foundation for development of the Consolidated Plan’s five-year goals and priorities, the Annual Action

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Jacksonville FL: Assessment of Fair Housing

Jeremy Gray

Jacksonville Housing (JH) serves as the public housing authority for Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida, providing more than 2,800 public housing units and managing more than 7,500 Housing Choice Vouchers. In the development of its Assessment of Fair Housing, JH was looking to engage with public housing residents, voucher holders, and the broader Jacksonville-Duval County

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Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS: Consolidated Plan and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice

Jeremy Gray

In the development of its five-year Consolidated Plan and fair housing study, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS was looking to support robust community engagement to understand housing and community development needs and opportunities while clearly communicating the results of planning efforts to communities focused on implementation. Mosaic used a variety

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Chino Hills, CA: Consolidated Plan, Annual Action Plan, and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice

Jeremy Gray

The city of Chino Hills is an urban area of more than 80,000 residents in San Bernardino County, CA. Mosaic worked with the City’s Community Services Department to prepare its Consolidated Plan, Annual Action Plan, and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. To engage with residents and stakeholders, our team held a community-wide needs

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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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Columbus and Franklin County, OH: Joint Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice

Jeremy Gray

The City of Columbus and Franklin County partnered together to prepare a fair housing study known as an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, or AI. As the capital of Ohio, Columbus is not only the seat of state government, but also home to the flagship campus of The Ohio State University and a

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Davenport, IA: Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice

Jeremy Gray

In 2019, the Quad Cities, represented by Davenport, IA and Moline and Rock Island, IL partnered together on a Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. The Regional AI discusses patterns of race, housing, and poverty; access to opportunity; and housing barriers. It also outlines recommended individual strategies for each of the three cities

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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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