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 and neighborhood revitalization 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 and enhancing community development
• Learn about approaches and available resources to improve the housing stock
• 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 and neighborhood revitalizationneeds (previous retreat locations include: Tifton, Macon, Dalton, Valdosta, Athens, Fort Valley, Fitzgerald, Savannah, St Simons Island, Toccoa, Griffin, & Columbus)
• the opportunity to attend related workshops,receive technical assistance, and engage in cross-community sharing and collaboration

Readily available housing and neighborhood revitalization technical assistance and expertise provided to (1) help communities identify needs, (2) develop a plan for meeting their objectives, and (3) enhance local understanding of funding programs. Printable GICH Brochure

For more information, please see our detailed program description.

Partners

• Georgia Municipal Association
• Georgia Department of Community Affairs
• UGA Housing and Demographics Research Center
• UGA Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach

Sponsors

• Georgia Power Company
• Wells Fargo
• USDA Rural Development

Implementation Partners

• Georgia Power Company
• Georgia Electric Membership Corporation
• UGA Archway Partnership
• Carl Vinson Institute of Government

Participating Communities