Collaboratively Cutting our Affordable Housing Deficit in Half
Be part of our movement to advance affordable housing in Greenville.
Greenville Housing Fund is the convener of a multiple stakeholder coalition of neighborhood representatives, elected officials, government, nonprofit and for-profit affordable housing developers and citizens, who have come together to collectively impact this complex problem our community faces. Join the Coalition and receive updates on our quarterly meetings, receive calls to action to support affordable housing, and provide input on the coalition’s work to reduce our affordable housing deficit by half over the next ten years!
GAHC Quarterly Meeting Recaps
The coalition meets quarterly in a large-group setting to review new developments and give reports about the progress of each working group. These meetings are public, and the meeting minutes and recordings are available below.
The meeting began with a welcome and introduction from Charlie Hall of Upstate Warrior Solutions, who kindly hosted this meeting. Topics covered in the rest of the meeting included federal funding concerns, local funding resources, policy updates, and working group updates.
The minutes are linked here.
If you have questions about the Greenville Affordable Housing Coalition, please reach out to Amber Stewart, Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement.
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Magnetic Brewery last week for the last GAHC Quarterly Meeting of 2024. It was great to see so many people stay for happy hour and enjoy fellowship.
A special thank you to Monroe Free for serving as co-chair of the Coalition and for his years of dedication to affordable housing in Greenville. Be sure to wish Monroe the best as he retires at the end of the year!
Topics included going over 2025 Advocacy Priorities, welcoming new Steering Committee Co-Chair Katy Davenport, and reviewing First Baptist Church’s pilot Housing Stability and Eviction Avoidance (HoSEA) program. View the minutes here.
The coalition will hit the ground running in 2025 to advocate for important housing issues and collaborate in GAHC’s three working groups: Debt Fund, Rent Stabilization, and Community Engagement. If you haven’t had the opportunity but would like to be part of one of the working groups, please reach out to Amber.
In place of a GAHC Quarterly Meeting, the coalition participated in a joint stakeholder meeting with the Greenville Homeless Alliance and the SC Upstate Continuum of Care (supported by United Housing Connections) to discuss solutions for housing and homelessness.
Slides are available here.
Meeting Recording is available here.
Quarterly Meeting on March 14, 2024. Shoutout to the Greenville Housing Authority for hosting this meeting in their beautiful Preserve at Logan Park apartment clubhouse. Meeting included a meet-and-greet with Terril Bates, the new interim CEO of the Greenville Housing Authority, and Candace Timmerman, the new CEO of United Housing Connections. Policy updates from coalition members, including the Greenville Homeless Alliance, the Greenville Housing Fund, Homes of Hope, and Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County, were provided. The new working group structure was discussed, and meeting attendees broke out into their groups for a quick overview of priorities and action items.
Quarterly Meeting on October 18th, 2023. The Coalition met at The Sullivan, a new affordable housing development by Schaumber Development and managed by NHE. New Steering Committee chair and vice chair, Monroe Free and Brian Albers respectively, introduced themselves and gathered attendee feedback about goals for GAHC in 2024. Tee Coker and Rashida Jeffers-Campbell from Greenville County provided an analysis of the County Unified Development Code, and then Coalition members took a tour of one of The Sullivan’s apartments.
Quarterly Meeting on July 19th, 2023. During this meeting, the Coalition discussed the particularity of developing and maintaining affordable housing from the financial standpoint. Guest speakers Racquel Collier of Caliber Real Estate, Taylor Davis of NHE, and Bucky Tarleton of United Housing Connections presented on building a workable pro forma, an overview of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program (LIHTC), and the importance of public-private partnerships respectively.
Quarterly Meeting on March 15, 2023. This meeting included brief presentations from other affordable housing organizations, including The Greenville Homeless Alliance, Impact Greenville, United Housing Connections/Continuum of Care, and The Greenville Housing Authority, in order for our community to collaborate more effectively. The meeting also included a review of the coalition’s governance, policy priorities, and survey results from the end of 2022.
Quarterly Meeting from September 15th, 2022. This meeting included a discussion on economic mobility and the effects of insecure housing on children, as well as updates on an infill/affordable homeownership roundtable, a realtor roundtable, and City accelerated investment in affordable housing.
Quarterly Meeting from March 14th, 2022. This meeting included presentations from local officials on housing and economic mobility, racially restrictive covenants in Greenville County and their impact, and the new vision for Greenville’s Newtown community.
Quarterly Meeting from March 14th, 2022. This meeting included presentations from local officials on housing and race, the City of Greenville Land Management Ordinance rewrite, and advocacy at the state level for the allocation of ARPA funds to affordable housing.
Quarterly Meeting from November 10th, 2021. This meeting included updates from each of the coalition’s working groups about their progress in their first year, as well as reports about the broader coalition’s successes, new mapping and data analytics tools, and what is necessary going forward.
Quarterly Meeting on August 4th, 2021. The meeting included reports about the new Greenville County budget, the Greenville Cares ARP Partnership, and rental assistance in Greenville County, as well as updates from each of the coalition’s working groups.
Quarterly Meeting on May 5th, 2021. The meeting included updates from each of the coalition’s working groups and presented the new Greenville Affordable Housing Map and Dashboard.
Quarterly Meeting on February 3rd, 2021. This was the coalition’s first large group meeting and included a presentation on the collective impact approach to coalition work and a review of the Affordable Housing Strategic Plan. The meeting also gave attendees the opportunity to meet with and introduce themselves to their working groups.
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