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Bold Goal: Reduce vacant and abandoned housing by one-third in five priority neighborhoods – Franklinton, King-Lincoln, Northland, Near South Side and Weinland Park

Strategies

Increase the number of rehabilitated, improved and modified housing units to safe, decent and sanitary standards. This includes home ownership units up to 100% of AMI and rental housing owned and managed by non-profits
Increase the home occupier’s knowledge and ability to repair and maintain a home.
Support Community building activities and capacity building of neighborhood organizations
Improve overall neighborhood physical quality and appearance

Programs

Columbus Landmarks Foundation
Neighborhood Preservation Initiative
This program offers hands-on technical preservation assistance through a trained consultant, via house calls and group workshops, related to repairing and maintaining homes of age, while preserving architecturally-significant features and to train neighborhood residents the enterprise of conducting historic walking tours of their neighborhood.

Community Development for All People
Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families Realty Collaborative
This program strategically acquires vacant and abandoned houses in a 28 block area near Nationwide Children’s Hospital. These properties, after rehabilitation will be sold at market rates to persons at or below 100% of median income. This program also provide grants/loans to existing homeowners to make improvements to their homes.

Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
Columbus Housing Partnership /MORPC Collaborative Housing Program
Columbus Housing Partnership will acquire and re-develop 40 single family properties on the Near Southside of Columbus. The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission will then target adjacent property owners for home repairs based on health, safety and code items.

Rebuilding Together Central Ohio
Tool Library
The Tool Library loans over 200 types of tools, free of charge, to qualified members, to assist with maintenance and repairs on their properties. There is a large selection of tools available for carpentry, landscaping, electrical, plumbing, painting, and cement/masonry.

Habitat for Humanity Greater Columbus
Habitat ReBuild Program
Through this program Habitat for Humanity will address the issue of foreclosed and abandoned homes in our community through rehabbing vacant homes by Habitat volunteers to be sold to qualified low-income families.

Franklinton Development Association
Franklinton Ambassador Program
The Franklinton Development Association will establish and administer this program to provide cleanliness and crime prevention patrols in limited commercial and residential areas in the Franklinton neighborhood

Columbus Housing Partnership
Whittier Landing
The Whittier Landing initiative is designed to invest in the acquisition and re-development of 25 vacant single family properties on the Near South Side.

Community Development Collaborative
Capacity Building
The Community Development Collaborative of Greater Columbus will be used to fund Community Development Corporations to address vacant property issues in their communities. The funds received from UWCO will be used in combination with funds from other non-profit funders, the City of Columbus, Franklin County and financial services institutions.

Initiatives

Columbus Housing Partnership
Whittier Landing
The Whittier Landing initiative is designed to invest in the acquisition and re-development of 25 vacant single family properties on the Near South Side. CHP, through its subsidiary Whittier Landing Homes, will acquire 25 vacant single family properties to be re-developed for use as rental housing in the target neighborhoods.

Provide up to six (6) Columbus CDCs or CHDOs with Collaborative Funding to be used to:
- Support a portion of the operational expenses and to increase organizational capacity, thus allowing the organization to focus on the development process
- Encourage the sale, lease purchase or rental of existing unsold houses in the CDCs inventory

CDCs and CHDOs receiving Collaborative funding or direct technical assistance will develop newly constructed or substantially rehabilitated housing units as dictated by market need and demand

Godman Guild / Weinland Park Civic Association
Revitalization without Gentrification
The primary goal of the Revitalization with Gentrification initiative is to assist Weinland Park residents in addressing current unsafe and indecent housing and neighborhood conditions as large scale investment and development projects take place within the community. This initiative will make use of community organizers to serve as liaisons between neighborhoods residents, community organizations, outside stakeholders and investors for the purpose of improving the quality of life in Weinland Park. These community organizers will work together to increase resident participation in neighborhood activities, provide educational opportunities concerning homeownership, employment, civic activities, and other programming operating in the community.