white house neighborhood revitalization initiative
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The Obama Administration recognizes that the interconnected challenges in high-poverty neighborhoods require interconnected solutions. The Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative is a community-based approach to help neighborhoods in distress transform themselves into neighborhoods of opportunity.TRANSCRIPT
UNCA Neighborhood Revitalization Conference August 2, 2012
white house neighborhood revitalization initiative
neighborhood revitalization initiative: what is it?
• Five federal agencies working together to align place-based investments
interagency effort
• across education, housing, public safety, health, and human services
supporting communities with
tools • enabling local-level solutions for comprehensive neighborhood revitalization
to transform neighborhoods
Launched by the White House in September 2010
Responding to increases in concentrated poverty across the country
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neighborhood revitalization initiative: why are we working together?
The effects of the recession drove median household income to its lowest level since 1996. In 2010, 46.2 million Americans were living in poverty. The poverty rate is highest among children, with nearly 16 million children growing up below the poverty line.
Number of Americans living in neighborhoods with more than 40 percent of residents in poverty
neighborhood revitalization initiative: why are we working together?
When it comes to addressing poverty, place matters: a child’s zip code should never determine his or her opportunities.
The stress children experience from living in poverty can cause long-term impairments to cognitive development.
Sustained exposure to disadvantaged neighborhoods is associated with a 60-to-80 percent decrease in the odds of high school graduation.
Improving opportunities in neighborhoods can have substantial impact on a child’s future.
Poverty and social isolation not only make it hard for individuals to succeed, but affect the welfare of the country and economy as a whole.
The aggregate impact of child poverty in the United States leads to reduced skills development and economic productivity, increased crime, and poorer health… ….all of which is conservatively estimated by recent research to cost the United States more than $620 billion per year.
neighborhood revitalization initiative: why are we working together?
neighborhood revitalization initiative: how are we working together?
Neighborhoods of opportunity
Access to quality
education
Affordable housing
Safe streets
Access to quality
healthcare
Jobs and economic
vitality
Interconnected challenges in neighborhoods require interconnected solutions.
neighborhood revitalization initiative: how are we working together?
educational
opportunities to revitalize
underserved neighborhoods
community-oriented strategies to address
violent crime
revitalizes distressed
housing to drive neighborhood transformation
Promise Neighborhoods
Byrne Criminal Justice
Innovation
Choice Neighborhoods
More than $365 million invested by the end of 2012
Centerpiece programs share a common theory of change
NRI is working to connect these
programs to the federal Health
Center program and Community
Development Financial
Institution (CDFI) Fund.
40 percent of residents live in poverty
neighborhood revitalization initiative: innovation on the ground
Plan includes public, affordable, and market rate housing….
Choice Neighborhoods: San Francisco’s Eastern Bayview neighborhood. High vacancies, poor schools, and inadequate access to job centers have hindered revitalization.
Private-public consortium includes:
• McCormack Baron Salazar •San Francisco Housing Authority, •Lennar Urban •City of San Francisco, •School District, •Urban Strategies
….as well as strategies to support residents and improve opportunities in the neighborhood:
improving school quality and access to high-quality early education programs;
working with local organizations to provide job training Improve streetscapes new commercial assets, fresh food stores, and bus rapid transit DOJ Public Safety Enhancement funding to address crime
housing plan includes 624 units (504 onsite and 121 offsite senior building). 1100 homes are planned for the site, with that balance the current responsibility of
• Competitive grant preferences
• Streamlined grant requirements and performance metrics
• Aligned technical assistance across programs and dual site visits
• Sharing best practices across grantees
neighborhood revitalization initiative: how are we working together?
In addition to a shared theory of change, NRI has aligned programs to target resources and cut red tape.
neighborhood revitalization initiative: innovation on the ground
Grantees receiving funds from multiple centerpiece programs are developing a community of practice to share their successes, challenges, and offer support to other communities that are working to braid multiple funding streams
Tulsa •Created unified metrics for the neighborhoods’ Choice & Promise grants •Partnership with local health center to increase access of neighborhood residents
San Antonio •Shared governance structure for the
neighborhoods’ Choice & Promise grants •Working towards complete alignment of
education strategies for Choice and Promise
Boston •Choice grantee capitalizing on the Promise grantee’s strong capacity to engage the community by contracting with them to engage residents in the Choice grant. •Using a DOJ Public Safety Enhancement grant to bolster crime reduction efforts in the Choice neighborhood
The Building Neighborhood Capacity Program brings together the resources and expertise of the 5 NRI agencies and key partners to bridge gaps in capacity of neighborhoods that have experienced persistent poverty.
NRI meets high-poverty neighborhoods where they are—at varying stages of readiness and capacity
neighborhood revitalization initiative: building neighborhood capacity
Stakeholders told us that federal funds leave gaps unfilled: support is needed for essential infrastructure and capacity to achieve the results residents want: jobs, affordable housing, good education, safe streets and others
Help neighborhoods develop the capacity to undertake comprehensive planning and revitalization activities.
Intensive Training and Technical Assistance: On-the-ground TA for persistently distressed
communities with capacity challenges
BNCP Resource Center: Open to all communities and will provide
guidance, offer online resources, and identify existing federal TA
neighborhood revitalization initiative: building neighborhood capacity
BNCP will provide:
The NRI agencies drew on research and 30 years of field experience to develop a framework of capacities that are essential to creating successful and sustainable neighborhood transformation.
neighborhood revitalization initiative: building neighborhood capacity
The capacity building framework includes:
Strategic,
accountable partnerships
Strategies based on
best available evidence
Strong
neighborhood leadership
and organizational
capacity
Data for
decisions, learning, and accountability
Financing that aligns
and targets resources
neighborhood revitalization initiative: supporting local leaders nationwide
50 organizational and school partners with a shared goal to prepare all NAZ children to graduate from high school ready for college.
Promise Neighborhoods: Minneapolis Northside Achievement Zone
As a Promise Neighborhood, NAZ is scaling up its successful strategies with a goal of reaching 1,200 families with 3,000 children – all successfully on a path to college, and each experiencing a transformation in their lives.
neighborhood revitalization initiative: Innovation on the ground
Cradle-to-career continuum of comprehensive supports through family engagement and opportunity alignment, an educational pipeline, and whole family support.
Fill key gaps in neighborhood revitalization funding by providing flexible federal funding
Expectation: Braid, leverage, and target multiple funding sources
Doing more with less: Creating flexibility within existing pools of funding President’s FY2013 Budget: $70-130 million The Administration will identify between 7-13 partnerships nationwide based primarily on capacity to use funds to make significant strides in neighborhood and resident outcomes
neighborhood revitalization initiative: where are we going?
Scaling up the NRI approach: Performance Partnerships
neighborhood revitalization initiative: where are we going?
Scaling up the NRI approach: working with other place-based federal programs to take investments to scale. Regions
Neighborhoods
Cities Aligned federal investment
NRI web page and report:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oua/initiatives/neighborhood-revitalization http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/nri_pb_agencies_final_9.pdf http://www2.ed.gov/programs/promiseneighborhoods/resources.html
Centerpiece programs: Choice Neighborhoods:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/cn/ Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation:
https://www.bja.gov/ProgramDetails.aspx?Program_ID=70
Promise Neighborhoods: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/promiseneighborhoods/index.html
Building Neighborhood Capacity Program http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/11BNCTTAsol.pdf
Health Center Program: • http://bphc.hrsa.gov/
Memo from OMB describing the Administration’s Place-Based Focus: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-21.pdf
neighborhood revitalization initiative: online resources