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Enterprise Green Communities in conjunction with GreenBuildingAdvisor.com have launched a website and blog to increase Green Technical Assistance to Neighborhood Stabilization Program recipients.
The site creates a space where NSP recipients can access green building educational resources while sharing their experiences and ideas regarding the incorporation of green rehabilitation standards into their programming. The Green NSP site provides information that builds on Enterprise’s Green Rehabilitation Specifications and is largely focused on the application of building science concepts critical to performance. Amy Hook, Green Communities new Program Director for NSP Technical Assistance, and Peter Yost of Building Green, LLC will host a blog on the site featuring topics including:
- A mini-series of construction process techniques and how to incorporate green into that specific part of the construction process
- Defining green building
- On-line project management tools
- Energy audits
- Benefits of doing pre-testing and post-testing
- Data collection on home performance
- How are NSP Programs standardizing their green approaches
On January 14, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced HUD is awarding $2 billion in Recovery Act funding to states, local governments and nonprofit housing developers, under the agency’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). Enterprise Community Partners commends its partners and all recipients NSP2 funding. The goal of the program is to spur economic development in hard-hit communities and create jobs. In total, 60 grantees will receive awards. Read the news release (PDF, 21K).
In August, 2009, Enterprise was awarded $7.1 million under a national contract In August 2009 through HUD to provide technical assistance for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). One of the ways we will provide support through this contract is by utilizing the services of consultants who have expertise in a wide range of NSP-related areas. We are compiling a consultant roster in cities all across the country. Download more information. (Word 840K)
Enterprise has played a critical role in addressing the national foreclosure crisis by driving public attention and vital resources to the potential decline of whole neighborhoods as well as the crisis’s devastating impact on individual homeowners and families.
Enterprise’s response to the foreclosure crisis has been guided by our long and extensive experience with HUD’s Asset Control Area program, returning foreclosed homes to productive use and confronting the destabilizing effects of concentrations of foreclosures. This experience led us to quickly adopt a multi-pronged foreclosure response strategy. We are working at the national level to create policies and partnerships that support local efforts. At the same time, we have joined our longtime national partners to develop and implement community stabilization programs in local markets across the country. Our efforts are symbiotic – local experience informs national policy and partnership efforts, while national policy changes and partnerships provide local programs with the tools and resources to achieve results on the ground.
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