[Durham INC] Fwd: Transportation Investments are Key to Neighborhood Health

Fri Sep 30 13:57:23 EDT 2022

This is a very interesting organization that helps communities define what
they need and to make improvements related to the community needs.

Mimi Kessler
919-599-2892

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Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 10:02 AM
Subject: Transportation Investments are Key to Neighborhood Health
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Improving Transit to Transform and Reconnect Neighborhoods
*Lynda Tran, Director of Public Engagement and Senior Advisor to Secretary
Buttigieg, shared the U.S. Department of Transportation’s priorities with
Purpose Built Network Members.*
When most people think of what it takes to revitalize a community, housing
easily comes to mind. However, taking a big-picture look, transit and how
people move safely in, out, and about their neighborhood is equally as
important.

Black and Brown communities are still dealing with the ramifications of
racist policies and practices as well as interstate highway development in
the 1950s that sliced through their neighborhoods. From poor road and
sidewalk maintenance to air and sound pollution, these conditions
negatively impact the health, wellness and overall quality of life of
residents.

To take a closer look at these issues, Purpose Built Communities recently
hosted a virtual briefing with Network Members and Lynda Tran, Director of
Public Engagement and Senior Advisor to Secretary Buttigieg at the U.S.
Department of Transportation. During the session, Tran highlighted programs
enacted in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including Reconnecting
Communities and the annual Areas of Persistent Poverty program. She also
shared about key priorities. While the department continues to remain
focused on core responsibilities such as safety, it’s also taking a look at
climate resilience, equity and overall innovation – issues that align well
with Purpose Built Communities’ work.

Three Network Members – Connect Community, Woodlawn United and Blueprint 15
– highlighted the harms to their neighborhoods from past policy decisions
and shared innovative ways their communities are collaborating to address
these injustices.

For example, Woodlawn United
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shared how the railways running through neighborhoods affects residents’
daily life and access to public transportation. *Caught between train
routes, sometimes residents find themselves “literally blocked in” and
unable to leave or enter their own neighborhood.* In partnership with the
City of Birmingham, District 4 & 5 City Councilors, Norfolk Southern,
Housing Authority of the Birmingham District, and Jefferson County Transit
Authority, they’ve developed a Railroad Crossing Elimination initiative
that includes a “quiet zone” and underpass, and are pursuing DOT funds to
further reconnect isolated residents to the larger neighborhood.
Georgia Power Foundation Awards $3 Million Grant to Purpose Built
Communities
The Georgia Power Foundation recently awarded Purpose Built Communities a
$3 million grant to address education inequity and enhance early childhood
care and education for Georgia families.

As part of the three-year pilot program and in collaboration with The Low
Income Investment Fund (LIIF), the program will provide strategic support,
analysis, training, and funding, for some of Georgia’s Purpose Built
Communities Network Members. Once the pilot is complete, the hope is to
replicate the work in other Purpose Built sites.
NEW BOARD MEMBER Purpose Built Welcomes New Board Member: Doug Jutte, MD,
MPH
Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH is Executive Director of the Build Healthy Places
Network. Prior to founding the Network, Dr. Jutte worked as a pediatrician
for nearly 20 years in low-income community clinics and as a neonatal
hospitalist and was a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health
for 15 years. Dr. Jutte sits on the Board of Trustees for Mercy Housing, a
national non-profit affordable housing developer, and is a member of the
health advisory committee for Enterprise Community Partners, one of the
country’s largest community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

He is also a member of CommonSpirit Health’s Community Economic Initiatives
committee and Trinity Health’s Socially Responsible Investment Advisory
Group. He has been a leader in the Federal Reserve Bank and
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Communities Initiative, which has
convened over 40 cross-sector gatherings throughout the country since 2010.

Purpose Built is proud to have had a long association with Doug and Build
Healthy Places Network and looks forward to the contributions he will
continue to make in his new role as Purpose Built Board Member.

NETWORK MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Canopy South, Omaha, NE
The Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced Choice
Neighborhoods Implementation Grants and allocated $50M to the holistic
revitalization of the Southside Terrace – Indian Hill neighborhood
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The Choice Neighborhoods program leverages significant public and private
dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling
neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a
comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. Local leaders,
residents, and stakeholders come together to create and implement a plan
that revitalizes distressed HUD housing and addresses the challenges in the
surrounding neighborhood.
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Amplify GR, Grand Rapids, MI
The Soul(s) of the Neighborhood by artist and photographer, Alfield Reeves,
is a community photo documentation project that honors and uplifts
neighbors who have been vital in shaping communities in the past and for
future generations to come. Each neighbor is individually important, a
contributor to the soul of the neighborhood, and continues to inspire
others to support and grow the community. Read more
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REACH Riverside, Wilmington, DE
Take a behind-the-scenes look as Clarissa moves into REACH Riverside's
Imani Village, the first of the multi-phase, community-led master-planned
redevelopment of Northeast Wilmington’s Riverside neighborhood. The project
is designed under the Purpose Built Communities Network model, with phase
one delivering 74 mixed-income rental apartments. Watch now
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*“Imani Village is simply beautiful. These new homes will serve families
for years to come in a healthy neighborhood with great schools, a new
Kingswood Community Center and other amenities and services that will help
every neighbor flourish,” said Carol R. Naughton, CEO, Purpose Built
Communities. “Congratulations to REACH Riverside, Pennrose, WHA and the
residents on reaching this important milestone!”*
South City Foundation, Tallahassee, FL
South City Foundation
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in Tallahassee recently hosted the other Florida Network Members – LIFT
Orlando
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and Northend RISE
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in West Palm Beach – and prospective member LIFT JAX for a day of
connection, planning and learning. The group committed to look for more
ways to support one another across a range of issues including policy,
housing, early care and education, and fundraising. Purpose Built
Communities facilitated the conversation and will serve as convener in the
months ahead as a possible state-wide effort takes hold.

INSIGHTS & TOOLS   The Intersection of Community Development and Health
Each month the Build Healthy Places Network
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brings
news, toolkits, and resources to inspire, inform, and hopefully, make your
work a little easier. The Network’s mission is to shift the way
organizations work across the health, community development, and finance
sectors to collectively advance equity, reduce poverty, and improve health
in neighborhoods across the United States.
Crosswalk essay, The Power of Partnerships: Solving a Challenge for
Healthcare
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Build Healthy Places Network is excited to share our newly released Crosswalk
essay, The Power of Partnerships: Solving a Challenge for Healthcare
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This publication explores multi-sector partnerships formed to create
workforce housing that can address workforce retention rates for hospitals
while also contributing to the built environment. It features hospital
systems across the nation partnering with community development in response
to the growing need for affordable housing in the communities they serve. Read
now
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*Support Purpose Built Communities*

We are working with local leaders to provide the tools and the resources
necessary to cultivate meaningful, holistic change in neighborhoods and
cities across America. We invite you to help us accelerate these
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For decades, systemically racist policies have disenfranchised entire
neighborhoods and created areas of concentrated, intergenerational poverty.
To bring about change, we must address the symptoms and the root causes of
such inequity, while making investments that bring new opportunity and also
preserve the history and culture of a place. This Is Community is a podcast
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*Changing neighborhoods, changing lives. *

We serve as a bridge, connecting community leaders with resources and
partner organizations that share a vision to make holistic, at-scale
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