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| #e.22599 | Tuesday 8:30AM to 12:00PM
January 29,
2013 | CM | 2.00 |
What Makes a Strong Community?APA Connecticut ChapterHartford, CT The real estate market recognizes some neighborhoods as desirable investments, and others as less so. Most large and small cities, suburbs and rural towns have places that don't reach their potential or, worse, struggle with disinvestment, poor living conditions, a depressed business climate and a weak tax base. How can we help strengthen these neighborhoods, and help stronger neighborhoods address challenges to continue thriving?
Solutions for fostering strong communities must be custom tailored to each neighborhood, street or block. This forum’s speakers and audience will explore: what techniques work for what situations; sparking market demand to get people living, shopping, doing business and investing in a neighborhood; lifting a neighborhood without pricing out its current residents; collaborating with residents to harness their ideas and ensure that initiatives meet their needs; and link together multiple efforts in a comprehensive way.
Demographics and market trends, high energy costs, environmental concerns, health and education disparities, the work of attracting young professionals and the need to fuel our economy are elevating the importance of helping our neighborhoods and their people reach their potential. This session takes a fresh look at what's now possible.
More Instructors: Shelby Mertes Shelby Mertes is the Partnership's Chief Policy Analyst. Shelby helps a wide variety of people understand problems and solutions related to homelessness and the lack of affordable housing in Connecticut. His duties include shaping state and federal policy proposals and advocacy strategy, mobilizing grassroots support for housing and homelessness funding and legislation, public speaking and networking with a wide variety of constituencies, organizing events, and producing email, web and print communications.
Before joining the Partnership in 2001, Shelby spent many years in education, in various teaching, tutoring and special education roles, and completed graduate work at Central Connecticut State University to become certified to teach middle- and high school social studies. He also holds a B.A. in political science and psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was raised in the suburbs of Chicago, lived briefly in Washington, DC, and has been in Connecticut since 1994. Shelby has two children, and lives in Hartford
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