Enterprise Enhancing & Implementing

5151 San Francisco Road Northeast,Albuquerque NM 87109

17 January, 2023

Description

This course is designed to build on the Tribal Leaders Handbook on Homeownership developed by the Center for Indian Country Development and Enterprise Community Partners. Through 11 detailed chapters, a preface, and appendices, the Handbook presents key components of developing homeownership in Native communities, including engaging tribal leaders to support homeownership, navigating land issues, and making homeownership affordable. It explores the question: What would it take to build new communities, and remake old ones, so Native communities move more positively toward meeting housing needs and bolstering economic development? This course will enable practitioners to examine this question and delve into the components of homeownership to determine what assets they already have in place, identify gaps, and outline concrete next steps. The course combines hands-on, participatory activities, small group exercises, and large group discussions. Through modules that correspond to the Tribal Leaders Handbook on Homeownership chapters, participants will explore the nuts and bolts of homeownership, including needs assessments, homebuyer readiness programming, available mortgage products and subsidies, land processes, community planning, home design and construction, and enhancing affordability. Participants will also have the opportunity to define what homeownership means for them, to work with their peers to identify and address potential opportunities and challenges to homeownership in their communities, and to develop strategies and outline next steps.