Habitat for Community

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Pittsburgh Flats

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Idea Overview

Provide affordable co-housing option to young, pre home-owning professionals

Idea Round Up Concept Sheet

Who worked on idea?

Lauren Owens, Joanne Pompeo, Missy Raterman

What is the idea?

Provide affordable co-housing option to young, pre home-owning professionals

How would idea work?

• Capitalize on houses in existing market
• Set up prototype co-housing unit that doubles as a resource center to help other groups set up a similar housing project
• 3 component housing structure: personal, communal, and public

Pluses:

• Provides social network
• Provides affordable home-owner option
• Builds new communities

Concerns:

• Housing zoning issues
• Legal ownership issues
• Mediation of household issues

Community opportunities:

• Improving local housing stock and young population retention
• Enhancing communities by building strong relationships

Pittsburgh Shared

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Idea Overview

A self sustained living space to satisfy basic needs

Idea Round Up Concept Sheet

Who worked on idea?

Tanya Ferrell, Bob Nev, Greg Langel, Jennifer Baron, Karen Dejulio, Jan Held

What is the idea?

A self sustained living space to satisfy basic needs

How would idea work?

• We will convert unused structures and lots throughout the region to communal living
• The spaces will provide free living and public services
• It would be income generating and self-sufficient
• People will grow their own food, accept responsibility for one another's welfare, and be responsible for up-keep

Pluses:

• Provide a stable environment
• Access to technology, education, employment
• Self-sufficient, inter-dependency among the denizens
• Helps people in transition
• Gets people off the streets

Concerns:

• Making it self sustained
• Money
• Who governs it
• Security and safety

Community opportunities:

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Rehabitat

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Idea Overview

Rehabilitate houses in low to moderate income neighborhoods by employing youth and out-of-work adults to do renovation and then providing homes to the community to live in and own.

Idea Round Up Concept Sheet

Who worked on idea?

Hilary Meurer, Jessica King, Matt O'Brien, Shad Henderson, Lauren

What is the idea?

Rehabilitate houses in low to moderate income neighborhoods by employing youth and out-of-work adults to do renovation and then providing homes to the community to live in and own.

How would idea work?

• Target houses on cusp of sustainable neighborhoods
• Deferred mortgages
• Professionals who are flexible and dedicated to oversee and teach workers
• Incentives such as targeting women or minority owned businesses to volunteer and to also make more affordable

Pluses:

• Employment and community education
• Improves distressed community
• Generates wealth and home ownership
• Benefits underserved population

Concerns:

• Motivation for contractors and professionals to donate
• Logistics - how to resell houses
• Competing agendas with other organizations who have similar goals

Community opportunities:

• Long-time residents who see their neighborhoods decay
• Neighborhoods seeking improvement
• Out-of-work people