Thrive Asheville Newsletter - March
Hi Asheville! Thanks for reading this month's Thrive Asheville newsletter. If you're receiving this email, it's because you love Asheville and want to be part of new solutions or because you have already engaged with one of our programs — maybe through Vote AVL, the Landlord-Tenant Partnership or our latest Finding Home Initiative.
In today's email, we highlight: our new affordable housing engagement project, an upcoming virtual Folding Chair event, opportunities for landlords and a thoughtful article on the relationship between gentrification and equity. Read on for more.
Our Thrive team is excited to announce the launch of “Finding Home: Recommendations for Affordable, Healthy, and Connected Places for Families,” a community engagement project to clarify the path to affordable housing and homeownership in the Asheville area.
We kicked off this project at the beginning of March by asking Ashevilleans about the hurdles they face as renter and/or aspiring home owners. 💡Now, we're sifting through the data and using it to inform key policy recommendations and other learnings.
Soon: we'll release a series of videos — produced in partnership with Aisha Adams Media — that will speak to the largest questions, challenges and elements of confusion facing our community. Stay tuned for more exciting updates soon!
The efforts of the Finding Home initiative (mentioned above) will culminate in May of 2021 with a free, virtual “Folding Chair” panel discussion and networking event hosted by Aisha Adams and the Lenoir-Rhyne Equity and Diversity Institute. More details to come. Be sure to mark it down on your calendar.
Want to help solve the affordable housing crisis in Asheville? We've got all the tools and resources you need to make a difference in our community.
Our team connects — and compensates — landlords who are willing to welcome tenants who want to move from public housing to private rentals using housing choice vouchers.
This spring, we are looking to add more landlords to our Landlord Tenant Partnership. The LTP is a win-win solution that addresses the needs of landlords and tenants and takes aim at Asheville’s affordable housing crisis.
Interested? Visit here and fill out the form.
"Addressing the forces that drive gentrification and racial and economic displacement should be central to the mission of Design Centers today, as they once were in the 1960s. Given their origins, Design Centers should not be neutral in the face of social injustice or the destruction of the environment."
We love this thoughtful article by Chris Joyell, published on the Mountain True website. If you have a spare moment, spend some time with it this week and let us know your thoughts.