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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


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: 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.


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


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


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.


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