HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
Chair, Patty Van Weelden, OACAC
Our yearly planning session identified the lack of affordable housing as the number one priority area for the upcoming year, and we began by looking at ways to address this issue in one target area of our community, the Heart of the West Side Neighborhood. Goals included: Developing a Local Housing Trust Fund to ease reliance on state and federal dollars; promoting educational initiatives such as Predatory Lending, Credit When Credit is Due, and Better Rental Living classes, and identifying available housing stock.
City Utilities of Springfield has given formal permission to the Housing Collaborative to add housing service providers to their interactive public transportation website. This is an incredible step toward fulfilling a goal of the Housing Collaborative to collect and disseminate housing resource information to the public. This site offers case managers and Springfield residents the ability to locate specific housing service providers and map a specific travel route. More importantly, each resource displayed on the map includes a link to a specific referral process outline.
While there are numerous enhancements in store, we know that this is a giant first step toward a fully accessible, interactive resource guide for the Springfield Community. Housing collaborative members support the hard work and dedication of everyone that contributes their professional life to assist others in need. We offer this resource guide to the community in honor of you!
- Housing Resource Guide
- Autodesk MapGuide Viewer Download
- Accessing the Interactive Housing Website (pdf)