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23 <br /> Neighborhood Assets <br /> The Rogers/Eubanks area has two principal assets: its location and its <br /> people. Although its location at the moment is a serious problem because the landfill is <br /> still operating, as the landfill closes and the environmental impacts of the landfill <br /> diminish through direct action and time passed, the location of the neighborhood will <br /> become an asset. Its proximity to the center of Chapel Hill and Carrboro is clearly an <br /> asset and its proximity to the proposed North Campus development will make the area <br /> even more valuable. The usual way for this kind of development to go would be that <br /> developers would offer current neighbors an amount of money for their homes that <br /> would exceed the price they could expect to get now. Given the financial circumstances <br /> many neighbors are facing, they would likely accept the offer. Although the offer <br /> would allow them to buy another home, it would not be enough to allow them to buy in <br /> a neighborhood that improved their standard of living since they would either have to <br /> move far from town or move to a worse dwelling nearer to town. The move would also <br /> destroy the other asset the Rogers/Eubanks neighborhood has: the ability of its people <br /> to cooperate for mutual gain. <br /> The Rogers/Eubanks neighborhood has been able to provide credible service to its <br /> people with basically little outside help. They have community gardens, tutoring <br /> programs, programs to get school supplies to its children, neighborhood festivals and <br /> outings. The Habitat communities have become full partners in this effort, joining in <br /> the Unity in the Community committees and activities. This ability to cooperate is the <br /> raw material that will allow the vision of a future where residents remain in the <br /> neighborhood while the neighborhood grows because of them and with <br /> them. Displacement is neither a desirable nor a necessary ingredient for economic <br /> growth. <br /> CONFIDENTIAL - DO i-40T DISSEMINATE. This business plan contains confidential, trade-secret <br /> information and is shared only with the understanding that you will not share its contents or ideas with <br /> third cartie,s the express written consent of the pan author. <br />