[yrhcworking] Fwd: Casco Bay Affordable Housing Forum, March 6, 2008

[Mlongreene2 at aol.com]

Hi All,  The party's over - I'm back!!       Sounds like a good assortment of 
stuff shaping up for this Forum and  a chance to talk with others.    Let me 
know if you want to  attend all or part.   It would be good to share some of 
the work that  is happening with the Application and Selection stuff as that is 
always a  challenging issue for all housing groups it seems - is there a  
YRHASC member willing to do a summary of where you are at for the  Forum?      I 
will do an overview of the YRHC progress  and issues.     Thanks,  Mark
 
  
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Sent: 2/22/2008 2:28:09 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Casco Bay Affordable Housing Forum, March 6,  2008



Hi  everyone, 
This is a reminder  that the Island Institute will be hosting a Casco Bay 
Forum on Affordable  Housing on Thursday, March 6th.  Originally, we were going 
to  run the forum from 10-2, but the ferry terminal conference room is not  
available for the morning.  So, the forum will run from 1:30- 5:00, in  order to 
coordinate with Long Island’s boat into Portland, and Peaks Island’s boat 
back later that  afternoon.  The Forum will take place at the Casco Bay Lines 
conference  room in Portland (see directions  below.) 
We will spend the  first 1 ¾  hours with a panel discussion, and then the 
rest of the time  will be spent sharing ideas and resources, and brainstorming 
for further needs  and the next Affordable Housing Symposium, scheduled for 
spring,  2009. 
The panelists  include: 
Terry  Kelley, Executive Director  of the Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island  
Housing Authority.  Terry will talk about how the land trust model has  worked 
with some of their developments on MDI, and how they creatively  financed 
some of their projects. 
Joanne  Whitehead, Executive Director  of Islesboro Affordable Property.  
Joanne will talk about land  acquisition and proposed projects, as well as 
current developments, challenges  and successes. 
Brooke  Brewer, Peaks Island Fellow  placed with Homestart.  Brooke attended 
a conference in January sponsored  by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in 
California.  Topics covered included an  introduction to community land trusts 
and designing resale formulas and  managing resales.  She will talk about the 
information covered during  these workshops and share resource materials. 
Brooke will also be  working with Joanne Campbell from Camden National Bank 
to pull together  helpful funding resources. 
I’ve tried to design  this content based on some of your needs.  Of course, we
’ll only be able  to scratch the surface of these needs in 3 ½ hours.  It 
would be helpful  for all if you could come prepared to share tools and resources 
with each  other.  If you’ve developed good selection criteria, applications, 
resale  formulas, funding strategies, board and committee development, public 
outreach  efforts, strategies for minimizing NIBMYism, please plan to bring 
these  documents/ideas.  If you’d like to e-mail me any forms, I’d be happy to 
 make copies. 
I’m trying to leave  plenty of time for all of you to talk and share 
resources.  I look  forward to seeing you in March.  Please pass along to others who 
may be  interested.  Again, please RSVP with numbers so I can set up the room  
appropriately. 
Thanks, and have a  great weekend! 

Chris 
Directions to the  Casco Bay Ferry  Terminal: 
>From the  north: 
Take 295 S to  Portland 
Take the Frankin  Arterial, exit 7. 
Go straight through  all the lights until you hit Commercial Street- you’ll 
be facing the  Ferry Terminal Parking Garage. 
Go straight at this  light and park in the Garage.  The Ferry Terminal is 
connected to the  Garage.   
Go to the ticket  counter and they will direct you to the conference  room. 
If you get lost, you  can try calling my cell phone-  712-8551.





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