Transcript Building Consensus for Sustainable Design

“The City We Need” -Urban LabBuilding Support and Consensus
The Interactive “Nebraska Dashboard ”
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Timothy Kenny
Executive Director
November 16, 2015
Introduction to NIFA:
• Independent State Instrumentality- Created 1978
• Housing, Manufacturing, Ag & Medical Finance
• Total Financings – approx. $7 Billion
• Self-sufficient; no public tax dollars
• Nine-member Board appointed by Governor
• Independent Audit - Reports to legislature
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Dashboard Inspiration
• Communities frequently ask NIFA
– We need housing…we think?
– What type of housing?
– How do we get started?
– How do we pay for analysis
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Dashboard Development Timeline
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2002 – Created and authorized
2003 – Published first edition
2011 – Published digital edition
2013 – Moved to web-based edition with Dashboard
2014 – Interactive mapping, additional data concepts
2015 – Interactive bubble charts, links to outside
resources
• 2016 – New features to be announced – March 2016
NIFA Conference
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Dashboard Basic Elements
• 13 years of data and trend analysis
• Trusted source of data
− Current & updated
− Objective & verifiable
− Relevant
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Dashboard “Bonus” Features
• Dashboard provides data that:
− Is Unique: not available through Census or American
Community Survey alone
− Is difficult to retrieve from other sources
− Is offered in 3 geographic formats
• Documents long-term trends
• State-wide executive summary
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Dashboard Custom Housing Survey
• Annual Rental Vacancy Survey (RVS)
− Personal interviews
− 2,517 Properties with 119,700 units
− Surveys multiple property conditions
− Provides evidence of supply adequacy
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Dashboard Design Features
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Users navigate by geographic location
Side by side area comparisons
Trends, data tables, and graphs
Export or print
Custom reports for grant applications and research
3 volumes - easily searchable
− statewide
− 93 counties
− 31 largest cities
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Dashboard Data Sources
• Compiled from:
− US Census / American Community Survey
− Bureau of Labor Statistics
− Nebraska Departments of:
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Education
Labor
Motor Vehicles
Revenue
Property Tax & Assessment
− Local Realtors Association
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How do we build Consensus?
Authority
Capacity
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How do we build Consensus?
Authority
Capacity
Support
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Authority
Who is changed with the legal, societal or designated
authority?
– Within specific realm…
– With data to validate “purpose”
Examples:
City Government
Development of Finance Authorities
Organized and Recognized “Groups”
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Capacity
• What are the elements and phases?
• Who are the designated and responsible
participants?
• Who will fund resources needed for each phase?
• Who can get something “done?”
- Human, intellectual, physical and political capital
Examples:
Cincinnati's 3cdc
Omaha’s Empowerment Network
Lincoln’s Community Foundation
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How do we develop “Support”?
• Clearly define community “self-interest”
• Consider other “external” factors
• Focus on the real common denominators
• Recognize symptoms, address causes
• Examples:
– Adjacent neighborhood traffic?
– Other economic self-interests?
– Dis-investment root cause - “complexity and low
probability”
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How do we develop “Consensus”?
• Categorize each “problem” by association with:
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Risk
Complexity
Probability
Market
• Develop phase correlated “corrective” actions
• Prioritize efforts
• Quantify costs; designate “actors”
• Visualize and project anticipated “outcomes”
• Cement outcomes with ordinance or regulation
• Review annually…repeat about every 4 years
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Consensus “Sweet Spot”
Authority
Capacity
Support
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Dashboard’s Impact
• Changes “community view” of leaders, and public
• Provides objective information
• Provides platform for consensus building
• Enables consistent tracking of public initiatives
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Dashboard Value in the Sweet Spot
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Provides an initial knowledge base
Reduces emotion and speculation
Makes information easily accessible and comparable
Supports and tracks action plan
Summarizes conditions & trends
− Demographics
− Economics
− Housing stock
− “Quality of Life” indices
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Scenario: Yourtown, USA
• Yourtown is frustrated - lack of progress
• Leaders require Authority, Capacity, Support to act
• Resident perceptions based on anecdotes and
emotion
• Challenge – to align perception with reality
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Yourtown “Perceived” Challenges
• Community residents see challenges as:
– Dilapidated housing
– Absentee owners
– Lack of local services (shopping,daycare)
– Lack of mixed income housing
– Lack of buildable sites
– Unkempt neighborhoods
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Yourtown Actual Strengths
• Community strengths:
– Undeveloped affordable housing areas
– Abundance of lower cost rental properties
– Access to transportation links and good streets
– Room to develop amenities and common areas
– Good access to jobs and services
– Cultural icon sites available at low cost
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Yourtown Meets the Dashboard
• The Dashboard provides information to:
– Identify undervalued properties
– Link older properties to new uses
– Verify “priority status” for need based grants
– Dispel myths about employment or labor force
– Identify “unseen” success stories
– Identify “invisible” development opportunities
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Yourtown Accelerated Results
• Public Support developed with objective data
• Participants confident about providing Capacity
• Leaders empowered to ratify operating Authority
• Funders are comfortable - Progress begins!
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Achieving Consensus
In NIFA’s years of community development and
redevelopment experience….
Consensus is the “sweet” spot at the junction of
Authority, Capacity and Support…
The “Dashboard” is an effective tool to develop the
elusive element of support…
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Dashboard Demonstration
• Royce Sheibal
([email protected])
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Dashboard Expansion
• Sustainability indices - quantitative metrics to track:
− Economic Sustainability
− Social-Cultural Sustainability
− Environmental Sustainability
− Public Policy Effectiveness
− Technological Innovation
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Dashboard Expansion
• Quality of life indices - quantitative metrics to track:
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Health
Safety
Educational achievement
Recreational density
Presence of entrepreneurial growth elements
K-12 educational opportunity
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Dashboard Questions?
• Do communities want
− conforming "singular” identity or
− unique “neighborhoods”
• Opportunities for greater customization
− Geo-coded custom metrics
− Town or area personality
− Community defined metrics, trend measurement
− Artistic, natural or aesthetic expression of “place”
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Nebraska Profile Report
Contact: Robin Ambroz –Director of Programs
[email protected]
Website:
www.nifa.org
Profile:
http://nifa.org/downloads/2015Vol1.pdf
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Urban Lab Questions & Discussion
• Reportable Public Sustainability elements to track?
• Available Human Quality of Life elements to track?
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