1. All-America City promising practices webinar series
Fair and Affordable Housing Strategies

2. 2018 All-America city award promoting equity through inclusive civic engagement
2018 is the 50th anniversary of the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder. The report concluded with words that fit easily within our own times,
“it is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens – urban and rural, white, black, Spanish surname, American Indians, and every minority group.”  

3. Assessment of Fair Housing Process: New Orleans as a Case Study
Presented by
Cashauna Hill
Executive Director, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center

4. GNOFHAC’s SERVICES Education and Outreach Homeownership Protection
Policy Advocacy
Enforcement
Litigation
Testing Investigations

5. NEW ORLEANS AFH TIMELINE: OUTREACH (Spring 2016)
Develop list of non-profit coalition partners, and begin coordination with national partners.
Make outreach materials accessible to a broad audience, and develop a plan for distribution (print and online)
Create fair housing survey for wide distribution
Create media strategy for publicizing community participation process and meetings.
Develop list of accessible venues in which to host meetings.
Create plan for targeted outreach to HCVP participants and public housing residents.

6. NEW ORLEANS AFH PROCESS: June-October, 2016
Convene initial stakeholder meeting
Group comprised of advocates. GNOFHAC suggested additional groups for inclusion as necessary.
Goals: 1) Education about the rule and process; 2) Ask for engagement and support from stakeholder group.
Weekly steering committee calls
Convene three public hearings (July, September, and October)
Analyze survey data on ongoing basis
Review submitted comments and update the draft report as necessary (ongoing)

7. NEW ORLEANS AFH PROCESS – GNOFHAC’S ROLE: June-October, 2016
Assist with drafting and editing versions of the draft report
Provide data about ongoing housing discrimination, segregation, and lack of equal housing opportunity in New Orleans
Hold 7 capacity-building trainings for non-profit partner organizations
Host 2 community dinners/listening sessions, with emphasis on engaging voucher holders and public housing residents
Synthesize data collected and submit as comments.
Assist community members and groups with preparing and submitting oral and written comments
Make recommendations and submit written comments, in line with GNOFHAC’s area of expertise (ongoing)

9. NON-PROFIT PARTNERS Voice of the Ex-Offender (criminal justice reform)
Stand with Dignity (racial justice)
RIDE (transportation equity)
Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (gender justice)
Puentes LatiNOLA (Latino-focused advocacy)
Urban League of Greater New Orleans (racial justice/economic development)
Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance (affordable housing)
Advocacy Center of Louisiana (disability rights)
Music & Culture Coalition of New Orleans
Louisiana Public Health Institute (health outcomes)

10. NATIONAL PARTNERS Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
PolicyLink
Ford Foundation
Open Society Foundations

11. LINK TO FULL REPORT
plan /afh-plan final/

12. WHAT’S BEEN HELPFUL/WHAT WORKED
Close working relationship/trust with the City
Previous relationship
Commitment from City leadership
HUD encouraged GNOFHAC participation
Technical assistance from national partners
Analyzing survey data
Draft sections of the report
Expertise with the HUD tool
Foundation support was critical for GNOFHAC’s ability to conduct extensive outreach and provide support for partner organizations and community members.

13. GREATER NEW ORLEANS FAIR HOUSING ACTION CENTER
404 S Jeff Davis Parkway New Orleans, LA (504)

14. Questions?

15. Expanding Opportunity in Housing in the Delta

16. Overview Hope Enterprise Corporation Hope Credit Union
Not-for Profit 501(c) 3
Loan Fund
Policy Institute
Community Development Intermediary
CDFI & CDE
Hope Credit Union
Federally Chartered, Insured CU
CDFI & CDE
Member-owned
Primary sponsor
Mission: Strengthen communities, build assets and improve lives in economically distressed areas in the Mid South by providing access to affordable, high-quality financial products and related services.
Good morning –
My name is Cassandra Williams and I am HOPE’s Vice President of Retail Operations. Its great to be here today. I’m going to take a bit of a different approach from the first two speakers and use the evolution of HOPE’s programs and the Arc of my career to localize some of the things that Donna talked about in her presentation.
Today, HOPE is a family of development organizations dedicated to strengthening communities, building assets and improving lives in the Delta and other economically distressed parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.  Comprised of a regional credit union (Hope Credit Union) with 31,000 members, a loan fund (Hope Enterprise Corporation) and policy center (Hope Policy Institute), HOPE has provided financial services, leveraged private and public resources, and shaped policies that have benefited more than 650,000 residents in one of the nation’s most persistently poor regions.
But it hasn’t always been that way. We started out small – a $1.5 million loan fund, the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta in 1994, that solely focused on small business lending in 58 counties and parishes in the Mississippi Delta. Initially, Foundations invested in the strategy along with the CDFI Fund. That’s where I got my start with HOPE – as a small business lender in the Mississippi Delta, Clarksdale, MS to be exact, in Important to note that in the early days, our fundraising pitch talked a lot about bridging the capital gap for historically underserved populations (women and African Americans) in the MS Delta. We had a number of transformative grants along the way – including very large transformation grants from Entergy (local power company) and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

17. ¼ of Nation’s Persistent Poverty Counties are Located in the Mid South
Nationwide, there are 384 persistent poverty counties. Persistent poverty counties are counties where the poverty rate has been greater than 20% for at least three decades in a row. The vast majority of these counties are rural. Looking at the national map, one sees clusters of persistent poverty:
In Appalachia
Throughout the Black Belt and the Delta
Along the US / Mexico Border
In Indian Country in the Southwest in in the Dakotas
From the outside, the regions look very different. Residents of Appalachia are predominantly white. Residents of the black belt, particularly in the persistent poverty counties are largely African American. Along the US / Mexico border, the residents are largely Hispanic and American Indians inhabit the reservations in the persistent poverty counties in the Southwest and in the Dakotas. Yet, the issues are very similar in each of the places. The Mid South is home to a quarter of the nation’s persistent poverty counties and home to some the country’s highest levels of persistent poverty concentration. Mississippi and Louisiana are the only two states in the country where half of the counties are persistently poor. The two states are also home to the highest concentrations of African American residents in the country
Source: U.S. Treasury CDFI Fund

18. In 10 years, Mississippi’s population under the age of 19 will be significantly Minority
2000
2025
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Creating opportunity where it is needed most. Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee

19. Unemployment Rates for Mississippi’s African Americans remain high
Source: Economic Policy Institute analysis of Current Population Survey Data

20. Nearly half of Mississippi’s African American Children Live in Poverty
Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2014 American Community Survey

21. Major disparities exist in access to a high quality education in Mississippi
School District Ratings <50% African American
School District Ratings >50% African American
opportunity that will accompany the lack of access to a high quality education
Source: Mississippi Department of Education;
HOPE estimates

22. Renter Cost Burdens Highest for Lowest Income Residents - Mississippi
Source: U.S. Census, American Community Survey, 2014

23. Nearly half of Delta Cluster Households Served by HOPE
Feb-17

24. Impact report slide with Mayor Holland at Ribbon Cutting
Or other good picture in branch with member?

31. Jackson Housing Authority Jackson, MS

32. CREATING OPPORTUNITY WHERE IT IS NEEDED MOST.
CREATING OPPORTUNITY WHERE IT IS NEEDED MOST.
Contact: Phil Eide at or

33. Questions?