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Webinar: Place Matters: The Importance of Middle Neighborhoods

LISC’s Housing Development Training Institute (HDTI) presents Place Matters: The Importance of Middle Neighborhoods

Definition:
Middle Neighborhoods – neither the healthiest neighborhoods in a community nor the most distressed – contain about half the population of cities. Often built with single [or double?] family detached homes, they’ve historically been a place that households could count on to buy their first home and grow a home equity nest egg, raise children they send to good schools, and pay taxes to a local government that provides community services.

Here is a link to MN’s mapping tool:

Defining Middle Neighborhoods: A Map-Based Tool

The webinar will include guest speakers below and will include a discussion with key community development practitioners in our market.

Marcia Nedland: Facilitator – Middle Neighborhood Community of Practice
Alan Mallach: Senior Fellow, Center for Community Progress
Nedra Sim Fears of Greater Chatham Initiative in Chicago
Johnette Richardson of NHS Baltimore

The Urban League of Essex County’s President + CEO, Ms. Vivian Cox Fraser, will also participate.

The goal of the webinar is to understand the importance of middle neighborhoods in the overall creation of vibrant cities, particularly minority-majority cities like Newark.

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