Neighborhoods are struggling to defend themselves against gentrification, affordable housing, and decades of division and wealth extraction, yet we know building a healthy incremental development ecosystem—where local people own the local community—is critical to fighting against it.
Neighborhood Evolution LLC (NE) has a deep, hands-on approach that has been tried and tested through work in team members’ communities and, over the years, through work with communities such as South Bend, Indiana, and Kansas City, Kansas. Their approach includes the 12 steps to development training series, on-site meetings, and specific workshop training customized to community needs. Though their work requires substantial expertise, patience, and time, it’s rewarding and it pays off! Over the years, NE has helped so many people find confidence to launch their small-scale development businesses and buy, build, and renovate buildings, which creates ripples throughout the local economy and community.
This presentation, co-facilitated by key NE leaders Monte Anderson and Bernice Radle, will help you understand the methods they employ in their coaching work and how to begin building small-scale ecosystems within your community. Bernice and Monte will highlight incremental development strategies you may find useful as you address struggles within your own neighborhoods.
This webinar is part of the Community Action Lab initiative that Strong Towns has been implementing throughout the past year. Through the Community Action Lab, Strong Towns is bringing to its partner communities everything we have learned over the past decade, not only about building stronger and more resilient cities, but also about building a movement. Strong Towns is helping to shift the vital center of dialogue using our broad reach, non-partisan appeal, and accessible messaging.
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