GICH For Participating Communities

 

Housing team contact database - updated 08/17/09

RETREATS

August 12 - 14, 2009 - Georgia Baptist Toccoa Conference Center, Toccoa GA

• Speaker presentations (coming soon)
  • Legal Issues: Tools for Code Enforcement - Brandon Bowen, Bowen, Jenkins & Olson, P. C.
  • Code Enforcement Initiative, City of LaGrange - Alton West
  • Code Enforcement Initiative, City of Rome - Howard Gibson
  • New Designs for Affordable Housing - Ashley Edwards, Governor's Office State of Mississippi
  • Neighborhood Revitalization - Glenn Misner, Georgia Department of Community Affairs
  • Blight after "Kelo"(Redevelopment and Condemnation) - Kirby Glaze, Public-Private Partnership Management, Inc (4PM)
  • Financial Literacy and Housing - Brenda Cude, HACE University of Georgia
  • Southwest Georgia United Homebuyer Education Workshop - Janet Tisdol, Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone
  • Green Building - Jennifer Adams, Georgia Department of Community Affairs
  • Southface Green Program - Scott Lee, Southface
  • Using the LIHTC program (Bedford Place Apartments and Starlight Place) - Jerry Braden, The Braden Group
  • Instituting and Using a Land Bank Authority - Alison Souther, Macon-Bibb County Land Bank Authority
• Sophomore reports (8/12)
  • Calhoun
  • Cordele
  • Douglas
  • Griffin
  • Toccoa
• Junior reports (8/13)
  • Colquitt
  • Metter
  • Milledgeville
  • Newnan
  • Tifton

February 26 - 27, 2009 - Sea Palms Resort, St. Simons Island

• Speaker presentations
  • Housing Policy Update - Carmen Chubb, Georgia Department of Community Affairs (2/26 & 2/27)
  • Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Tools - Martin Fretty, City of Savannah (2/27)
  • Planning for Sustainability - Gaye Smith, Georgia Family Connection Partnership & Mary Willoughby, & Crane Consulting (2/27)
• Sophomore reports (2/26)
  • Calhoun
  • Cordele
  • Douglas
  • Griffin
  • Toccoa
• Junior reports (2/27)
  • Colquitt
  • Metter
  • Milledgeville
  • Newnan
  • Tifton

OTHER INFORMATION