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Greensboro Launches Online Survey To Assess Affordable Housing Needs

Greensboro leaders are focusing on four housing-related areas to address needs in the community. KERI BROWN/WFDD

City leaders in Greensboro are working on a 10-year affordable housing plan. They want to hear what residents have to say through an online survey.

For the past several months, the city's Neighborhood Development staff has been engaging with residents on housing needs. They identified four focus areas: affordable rental housing, neighborhood revitalization, affordable homeownership and supportive housing for vulnerable populations.

They're asking the community to help prioritize the categories. That information will be used to develop the city's ten-year affordable housing plan called Housing GSO.

Caitlin Bowers is leading the effort and says they hope to get responses from as many people as possible.

“This will not only allow us to receive the vital community input to know what Greensboro residents really want, and need, and perceive, but it's also a way for us to continue to educate the Greensboro community around the current housing needs.”

The survey will be available through February 12. Bowers says funding for the improvements will come from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and local housing bonds approved by voters in 2016.

Greensboro City Council will have to approve the final plan. It's expected to be released to the public in April.

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Keri Brown is a multi-award winning reporter and host at 88.5 WFDD. She has been honored with two regional Edward R. Murrow awards for her stories about coal ash, and was named the 2015 radio reporter of the year by the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC).Although she covers a variety of topics, her beats are environmental and education reporting.Keri comes to the Triad from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, where she served as the Chief Bureau Reporter for the Northern Panhandle. She produced stories for the state's Public Television and Radio programs and was honored by the West Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association for her feature and enterprise reporting.She also served as an adjunct instructor at Wheeling Jesuit University and Bethany College in West Virginia. She worked with the Center for Educational Technologies in Wheeling, WV, and other NASA centers across the country to develop several stories about the use of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts in the classroom.Keri's journalism career began at WTRF-TV 7 in Wheeling. She worked in several roles at the station, including the head assignment editor. She also was a field producer and assignment manager at WPGH-TV Fox 53 in Pittsburgh.Keri is a graduate of Ohio University. When she's not in the studio or working on a story, she enjoys watching college football with her family, cooking, and traveling.Keri is always looking for another great story idea, so please share them with her. You can follow her on Twitter @kerib_news.

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