{"id":5130,"date":"2015-01-02T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2015-01-02T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:49:00","slug":"greater-new-orleans-housing-alliance-working-to-create-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/greater-new-orleans-housing-alliance-working-to-create-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance Working To Create Affordable Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/184155851&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance is a collaborative formed by the non-profit housing builders and community development corporations who are working diligently to rebuild the city of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance is a collaborative of non-profit, for-profit, builders and advocates of affordable housing here in the metro area,\u201d says Andreanecia Morris. \u201cWe have been working together to create more affordable housing in New Orleans as we rebuild the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andreanecia Morris works for Providence Community Housing; they\u2019re a member of the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance \u2014 GNOHA for short. So is Jericho Road, a non-profit developer in Central City. Also Volunteers of America, the Crescent City Land Trust, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, LowerNine.org, Make it Right, Project Home, and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAffordable housing is the business of most of us who participate in GNOHA,\u201d says Morris. \u201cBe that as an advocate, where we have members who work on behalf of residents and neighborhood associations, or low- to moderate-income buyers, first time buyers.\u00a0 And then there are also the builders, the people who create the housing. And we have about, last time I looked, 50 members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the GNOHA policy meeting, members pour over a draft of housing plan for the city of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Foundation for Louisiana has funded a housing plan that we\u2019re working on,\u201d explains Morris. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a ten-year plan to take us through second half of recovery. What does affordability, what does livability look like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GNOHA wants to be very deliberate about answering those questions, because affordability runs the range.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just simply someone who\u2019s trying to make due on minimum wage,\u201d Morris says. \u201cThere are also affordability issues for people at higher or more modest income levels in the middle class. Rents are so high now. If you\u2019re fortunate enough to own your own home, insurance, taxes could put you in a precarious position of being priced out of your neighborhood. We have to get in front of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ups and downs of the U.S. housing market have affected New Orleans differently than the rest of the country because we flooded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it doesn\u2019t mean that those things can\u2019t happen here,\u201d cautions Morris. \u201cAs we start rebuilding and the neighborhoods get stronger, you have to worry about gentrification and people getting pushed out of neighborhoods that they have lived in for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris says as a city we need to be thoughtful and deliberate about housing. And that\u2019s housing for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure that it\u2019s not pigeonholed. It is about affordability, but it\u2019s more than that,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s about the college student getting their first apartment or someone in their first job. Where do they live? Do they have to live outside the city? Can\u2019t they live in New Orleans proper in a decent apartment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By working together as a collective, GNOHA has a singular, more powerful voice in looking at policies and practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we want to push?\u201d asks Morris. \u201cWhat do we want to nudge? What do want close our eyes and pray it away, or pray it away?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris says housing is just one of many issues that make a healthy city. Wages, jobs, transportation, education \u2014 they\u2019re important too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you get a kid to go to school every day if they don\u2019t know where they\u2019ll lay their head at night? How do you keep a job if you don\u2019t have anywhere to go home to? Housing is the underpinning of all of that,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all interrelated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo housing for me, is a good place to start.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the only place to start. But given what I do, it\u2019s the place I\u2019m going to start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. 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