Livable Communities Planning Grants: Two Upcoming Webcasts.

PolicyLink has a scheduled Thursday March 4th advocates focused webcast on the new HUD Sustainable Communities Program, including an appearance by the HUD Director of the program. (I have pasted details from Policy Link below, including links to registration which IS required for this PolicyLink session).

Also, HUD's listening tour schedule shows a planned Tuesday March 9th webcast from 10-11 AM WEST coast/Pacific time on this program. This planned webcast does not yet show up on HUD's future webcast site but should be up sometime next week. (Advance registration is not required for this HUD session). This session may be repeated on subsequent dates.

March 4th webcast details from PolicyLink are pasted below: (sorry for small print size, extracted from email sent to me).
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What Advocates Need to Know.

The new HUD Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program offers an exciting opportunity to create more equitable communities across America.

Join us for a webinar on Thursday, March 4, at Noon Eastern (9 am Pacific) to find out how you can influence the program to make it more responsive to low-income communities and people of color. The Department of Housing and Urban Development program – in collaboration with the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency – is intended to "create strong, sustainable communities by connecting housing to jobs, fostering local innovation, and helping to build a clean energy economy."

The webinar will cover how the program can better:

• Engage the Nonprofit Sector and Community Leaders for Policy
• Meet Housing Need and Affordability in our Communities
• Build Equity into Regional Consolidated Plans
• Foster Better Community and Agency Collaboration

Shelley Poticha, Senior Advisor for Sustainable Housing and Communities at HUDwill provide program details and outline the office’s effort to integrate housing, economic development, environmental impact and transportation decision-making.

Kalima Rose and Radhika Fox from PolicyLink will offer insights on how communities of opportunity and place-based strategies could be strengthened by a transformative and visionary federal effort on sustainable communities.

PolicyLink comments on this program will be posted on March 5, and will be e-mailed to all call participants.

View program details and submit your comments through the HUD website atwww.hud.gov/sustainability.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.