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March 2007
Regional Housing Data Center Pushes On
Nkosi accepts position to help rebuild NOLA
Loan offers hope for continued progress in Stone Mountain
Staff Spotlight: Zenovia Palmer
Making the Case: The Next Generation
MICI bids farewell to Myles Green Smith
ANDP publishes 2006 Annual Report
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 Nkosi
accepts position to help rebuild NOLA
ANDP recently bid farewell to M. von Nkosi as he left his post as
director of the Mixed Income Communities Initiative (MICI) and
director of the organization’s Department of Research, Policy &
Information. Nkosi has accepted a sponsored position with New
Orleans' Office of Planning and Development and will work to ensure that the
rebuilding efforts in New Orleans are fair and equitable to
people of all income levels.
The position Nkosi will fill as a one-year "loaned executive" is the
result of a partnership between PolicyLink, a national public
policy, planning and housing advocacy nonprofit, and the Louisiana
Disaster Recovery Foundation.
According to officials at PolicyLink, von will “help shape the
city’s emerging policies on Affordable Housing, Environmental
Justice, Economic Development and Workforce Development, and be a
liaison between New Orleans’ Office of Planning and Development and
other agencies. He will develop join policies and practices and help
ground the city’s overall rebuilding strategy in an ‘equitable
development’ philosophy.”
For nearly ten years, Nkosi has worked diligently to build awareness
of equitable and mixed income development and to move leaders from
both the private and public sectors from dialogue to action.
Nkosi managed the creation of the 2004 report Making the Case for
Mixed Income and Mixed Use Communities. Making the Case soon became
one of the leading resources for information on the value of mixed
income and mixed use development. One of the last projects overseen
by Nkosi was the Regional Housing Data Center, an online source of
housing information, which he helped to see into its final
development stages.
ANDP would like to thank M. von Nkosi for his dedication to the
mission of ANDP and for helping to increase awareness of Atlanta’s
affordable housing concerns. We wish him success in the challenging
position he has accepted.
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