Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership: Projects
Morehead Hill is an active participant in the Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership (DDNP), in which 14 Durham neighborhoods are working together to improve life in Durham, with support from Duke. For details, visit the Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership website.
Our part in the partnership at this time is to take action in our neighborhood to implement priorities identified in previous steps. The top priority is
People First Development. The related ideas illustrated below were generated by DDNP participants. Our immediate task is to develop projects we can do this year in Morehead Hill that build on one or more of these ideas.
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- Affordable housing
- No predatory real estate lending and policing
- Help neighborhoods organize against development pressures
- Develop affordable housing policies and laws that promote home ownership for all
- Preserving and creating green space and tree canopy
- Investment in people, stop displacement
- Work with city manager to get new planning director who favors residents
- Develop relationship with DHA to stay aware of new construction and have more social integration
- Policy and law protections for older homeowners to help the stay in their homes
- Utilize university resources
- Defining and communicating what affordable housing is
- Mobilize across neighborhoods because there is power in numbers
- Improved homeowner/renter dynamic. Understanding position and concerns of renters.
