2. The Moment

3. Mile High Connects

4. A Growing Network

5. Gentrification: Not Just a Local Problem

6. But Also a Local Problem: Trends and Context

7. The Housing Market
Zillow

8. Housing Production Lagging
Attribution: Data Initiative/Piton Foundation/GCI

9. Affordable Housing Pressures
Attribution: Data Initiative/Piton Foundation/GCI
Sources: Data Initiative calculations from Colorado Affordable Housing Early Warning System and 2014 ACS 5 year estimates, Data Initiative tabulations of 2014 ACS PUMS, Regional Transportation District

10. Wages vs. Rents What can nurses afford?
Attribution: Data Initiative/Piton Foundation/GCI

11. Wages vs. Rents What can janitors afford?
Attribution: Data Initiative/Piton Foundation/GCI

12. Our Urban Core Share of Eligible Tracts Gentrifying Tracts Gentrifying
Share of Eligible Tracts Gentrifying
Tracts Gentrifying
Did Not Gentrify
Not Eligible to Gentrify
Total Census Tracts
Since 2000
42.1% 24 33 87
144
31.8% 21 45 78
Governing Magazine

13. A Picture of Gentrification
Attribution: Data Initiative/Piton Foundation/GCI
Overall, mobility rates between 2009 and 2014 remained flat, but Black and Hispanic populations consistently have higher inter-regional mobility rates.
19%
14%
Black or Hispanic
White Alone
Sources: Data Initiative analysis of 2009 and 2014 ACS 5 year estimates, Regional Transportation District

14. Signs of Displacement? Race/Ethnic Plurality 2009
Attribution: Data Initiative/Piton Foundation/GCI
Sources: Data Initiative calculations from Colorado Affordable Housing Early Warning System and 2014 ACS 5 year estimates, Data Initiative tabulations of 2014 ACS PUMS, Regional Transportation District

15. Vulnerable Neighborhoods
City of Denver Gentrification Report

16. Impacts on the Suburbs
DRCOG

17. Intersections

18. Areas of Intervention
Housing
Economic Opportunity
Community Fabric

19. Preserve affordability of current housing near transit and in historically underinvested neighborhoods experiencing revitalization
Strengthen policy and enforcement of protections for renters throughout the region
Support programs that assist in the purchase of homes and land by and on behalf of low-income people and people of color
Create new affordable housing near transit and in neighborhoods of opportunity

20. Create jobs for residents in the development occurring in their neighborhoods and with the businesses that locate in the neighborhoods
Provide incentives for local and culturally relevant businesses providing good jobs and needed services to remain and/or locate near transit and in revitalizing neighborhoods
Create targeted opportunities for support and growth for locally owned and culturally relevant businesses near transit and in revitalizing neighborhoods.

21. Support organizing and engagement of community residents to participate in planning and other processes that shape the character of neighborhoods and development projects
Utilize arts and culture as a framework to address gentrification
Maintain affordable, accessible and safe transit that is meaningful to low-income communities and communities of color

22. Resources Brother’s Redevelopment Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority
Denver Housing Authority
Denver Office of Economic Development
Denver Office of Aging
Denver Urban Renewal Authority
Habitat for Humanity
NEWSED
Northeast Denver Housing Corp
Salvation Army
Denver Human Services
Energy Resource Center
Energy Outreach Colorado
Groundwork Denver
Colorado Affordable Legal Services
Denver Metro Fair Housing Center
Denver Asset Building Coalition
Mpowered
Denver Office of Financial Empowerment

23. Regional Problem: Local Solutions

24. Dace West, Executive Director
Thank You!
Dace West, Executive Director
Mile High Connects