GICH About GICH

 

The Georgia Initiative for Community Housing, launched in November 2004, offers communities a three-year program of collaboration and technical assistance. The objective of the Initiative is to help communities create and launch a locally based plan to meet their housing needs. The Initiative grew out of Georgia’s experience with the National League of Cities’ Affordable Housing Program and the success stories that are celebrated at the annual Magnolia Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing. Participating communities will:

• Create a community housing team
• Develop new ideas about meeting local housing needs
• Learn about approaches and available resources to meet housing needs
• Produce a community housing plan
• Begin implementation of their plan

What Is It?

• a series of facilitated retreats held over a three year period designed to allow communities to fashion solutions to their housing needs (previous retreat locations include: Tifton, Macon, Dalton, Valdosta, Athens, Fort Valley, Fitzgerald, St Simons Island, & Toccoa)
• the opportunity to attend related workshops and receive technical assistance
• opportunities for the community housing teams to engage in cross-community sharing and collaboration

Readily available technical assistance and housing expertise will be provided by the partners to (1) help communities identify housing needs, (2) develop a plan for meeting their housing objectives, and (3) enhance local understanding of housing programs. Downloadable one-page GICH flyer

For more information, please see our detailed program description.

Partners

• Housing and Demographics Research Center
• Georgia Department of Community Affairs
• Georgia Municipal Association
• Georgia EMC
• UGA Archway Partnership Program

Sponsors

• Georgia Power Company
• Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation
• USDA Rural Development

Participating Communities