Community Development Innovators
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1st Place: Nora Lictash, Executive Director, Women's Community Revitalization Project (WCRP). WCRP is a model for affordable housing that ensures permanent affordability combined with women's leadership development and community organizing. The combination has proven to be successful; families can afford their rent and pay their rent, the units are well-built and maintained, no one is displaced when the tax credits expire, and neighbors accept and integrate the housing units and the residents. Acceptance is achieved through the community work that's done ahead of time to ensure social and economic viability. Community work includes garnering political support, coalition building and advocacy work, listening to the community and its needs prior to design and financing, and providing the supportive services so residents can be good neighbors and engaged citizens. The model also ensures WCRP's sustainability.
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