This week GOPC and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy ended our webinar series “Keeping People in Their Homes” a series exploring strategies for promoting neighborhood stability in the time of COVID.  Over the last four weeks this webinar series explored themes of neighborhood stability by focusing on strategies well-suited to a variety of actors, including philanthropy, mission-driven developers, local governments and non-profit community advocates.

You can access recordings of the entire series here.

This week’s webinar was created in partnership with the Center for Community Progress and was entitled “Local Government Programming to Support Neighborhood Stability.”  Panelists discussed housing strategies that reinforce stability, like thoughtful code enforcement strategies, rental registries, property tax incentives for affordable housing, and source of income protection.

If you were unable to attend the webinar, here is this weeks panel discussion.

Panelists for this webinar were:

• Shannon Meadows, Community Development Director, City of Springfield

• Stacie Young, Director, The Preservation Compact

• Sharetta T. Smith, Chief of Staff, City of Lima

The panel was moderated by GOPC Executive Director Alison Goebel.

We want to thank the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for their ongoing support of all components of this series.  We also extend our thanks to the Center for Community Progress who partnered with us on the creation of the fourth webinar and spotlighted it as a Cornerstone Webinar for the month of February.

We offer hearty thanks to all our panelists and moderators who contributed their talents and ideas to make this a content-rich series.  We also thank those who attended, contributed questions, and are working to promote neighborhood stability in their own communities.