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~a <br />SMALL GROUP POSTER: GROUP S <br />Group 5: Needs <br />- Location (land where it will be developed) <br />- Financial capabilities <br />- Look at entire scope of affordable living <br />- Jobs/stability <br />- Federal subsidies <br />- Proper planning (at all levels of government) <br />- Fix up existing housing <br />- Size and type: single parents, safe, small enough <br />- Policies which allow for a wide variety of lifestyles <br />- Loans for small homes _ <br />- More UNC student housing <br />- Single room occupancy <br />- Places for people with disabilities <br />- More section 8 housing <br />- Lowest income level housing within bike/bus/walk distance of jobs <br />- Education about diverse communities integrating diff housing types <br />- Translate Section $ guidelines into local gov policies for home ownership <br />- Local communities need more input into local gov decisions <br />- County speedup disbursement of bond fund <br />- Set up a county trust fund <br />- University, town housing task force <br />- Housing for median income people <br />- Improved tech assistance <br />- Reduce/fix up substandard housing <br />- Educate population on scope of affordable housing <br />- It's not a free market as it is (A.BODE Report is a good resource) <br />Group 5: Barriers <br />- Lack of coordination within agencies dealing with investment in affordable housing <br />- Lack of coordination in general, and especially with public <br />- Lack of public awareness, sympathy, understanding <br />- Lack of land, money, design variation, appropriate tech assistance <br />- Lack of choices in housing variations <br />- Lack of improvements of existing real estate <br />- Public sentiment against infill <br />- Innate self interest/greed <br />io <br />