The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CN) is a HUD program that employs a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by revitalizing distressed public and/or assisted housing and investing and leveraging investments in well-functioning services, high quality public schools and education programs, high quality early learning programs and services, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative is focused on three core goals:
Housing: Transform distressed public and assisted housing into energy efficient, mixed-income housing that is physically and financially viable over the long-term;
People: Support positive outcomes for families who live in the target development and the surrounding neighborhood, particularly outcomes related to residents’ health, safety, employment, mobility, and education; and
Neighborhoods: Transform distressed, high-poverty neighborhoods into viable, mixed-income and sustainable neighborhoods with access to well-functioning services, high quality public schools and education programs, high quality early learning programs and services, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs.
Camiros is experienced in helping communities secure funding through the application process and developing award-winning planning and outreach strategies as a planning coordinator for Choice Neighborhoods Grantees.
Camiros is currently serving as Planning Coordinator for the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority in Rome, GA (2019 grantee) and the Huntsville Housing Authority in Huntsville, AL (2019 grantee). We have recently completed successful Choice Neighborhood (CN) Plans for:
The Rockford Housing Authority (2011 grantee),
The Housing Authority of the City of Austin, TX (2012 grantee),
The Mobile, AL Housing Board (2014 grantee),
The City of Flint, MI and the Flint Housing Commission (2014 grantee),
The Housing Authority of the City of Brownsville, TX (2016 grantee),
The Housing Authority of Cook County (2017 grantee), and
The HuntingtonWV Housing Authority (2018 grantee)
Our CN grant for Shreveport, LA recently received $1 million in action funding from HUD for physical neighborhood improvements.
In July 2018, HUD awarded the City of Flint a $30 million CN Implementation Grant to implement our South Flint Community Plan.
Contact us at bjames@camiros.com to further discuss the Choice Neighborhood Planning or Implementation Grant Application process or to seek assistance in developing an application.
