Friday, December 30, 2022

EVIDENCE BASED PLANNING

PUTTING HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENTS AND

HEALTH DATA TO WORK FOR YOUR COMMUNITY

Teryn Zmuda, NACO’s Chief Research Officer/Chief Economist, said databases can share not only statistics, but examples to benchmark. 

She mentioned a Salt Lake County public-private partnership that created housing units with priority for people who needed disability-accessible units. 

The development was connected to a county service center. 

A Hennepin County project put local residents to work rehabbing homes, then those homes were put on the market as affordable housing for families.

“Pick up the phone and call a county that solved something you are working on,” she said, noting data must always be combined with a firm knowledge of local needs and traditions as well as innovative ideas borrowed from peer county success stories.

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