Housing Summit 2018 - Housing Builds Our Economy

Our annual housing summit builds momentum around the vision of safe affordable housing. About one in every four Greensboro households is struggling to have a place to live; some are on the streets, some in homeless shelters, more are “staying” in crowded spaces with friends or relatives, but most of them are paying more than a third of their meager incomes to rent places that sometimes make them sick. Lack of affordable stable housing and deteriorating neighborhoods negatively impact education, economic development, and the quality of life we all want.

The Greensboro Housing Coalition, City of Greensboro, HUD, Community Foundation of Greater, along with other organizations, come together annually to educate, inspire, and challenge each other to substantially increase housing options (policy changes and increased resources for repairing and building different kinds of apartments and houses), to support people accessing and maintaining housing (such as tenant education and rental assistance), and to promote collaboration among leadership. We all come together to transform community knowledge and attitudes to support affordable housing.