PROJECT PROFILE: HUD COMMUNITY CHALLENGE PLANNING GRANT
The mission of the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities is “to create strong, sustainable communities by connecting housing to jobs, fostering local innovation, and helping to build a clean energy economy.”
Under the leadership of the City of Worcester, IES is partnering with the Community Builders and the Main South Community Development Corporation on the Main South to Loomworks Revitalization project. The plan’s goal is to create an affordable, economically viable and sustainable community through the creation of affordable housing, the reuse of older industrial buildings and vacant land for new purposes, coordination of brownsfields remediation, and planning for better connectivity to job centers and adjacent neighborhoods.
Through increased community participation and decision-making, this project seeks to improve economic development by increasing availability of affordable housing, developing vacant and underused lands, improving connections to jobs and amenities and to improve connectivity to assets and transit. These initiatives will transform the Worcester region into a more equitable, environmentally sound and economically healthy community.
Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Sustainable Communities
Metropolis Mag: HUD Grant Shows Post-Partisan Promise
City Limits: Obama’s Urban Policy
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan: Planning Regionally will help Fresno Housing Market Rebound
HUD’s Shelley Poticha Discusses Sustainability Planning: Builder Magazine
** HUD Announces Preferred Sustainability Status for IES along with 2010 Grantees **
DC Street Blog: $100 Sustainable Communities Program Survives This Year’s Budget
