Building and renovating housing for homeownership (including rent-to-own options) should be given more priority to counter the high rate of rental properties in Upton and to repurpose the high volume of vacant properties (with special tools needed to address larger buildings that will be costly to develop and maintain as single-family.
Information requested from pastors for our team’s analysis and mapping Real Estate Projects by:
Type (housing, commercial, institutional)
Scale/size (units, square feet)
Status/Stage (conceptual, predevelopment, completed)
Street address (for mapping purposes)
Programs/Program Services by:
Type (health, educational, spiritual, etc.)
Target population
Status Stage (conceptual, completed/operating)
Observations/Potential Opportunities
Focus attention on blocks surrounding church facilities to build off strength to the extent properties are accessible and the church has capacity and/or interest in partnering/ collaborating with entities that do
Other Data Requirements
Map addresses of church and overlay their locations with:
Vacant buildings and vacant Lot
Schools
Other churches/houses of worship
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