Saturday 13 April 2019: One Year After Opening Mesa ArtSpace Lofts Wraps-Up 2 Artist-In-Residence Prototypes

The Mesa Prototyping Project Artist Residencies are wrapping up. They - and you - will be celebrating with featured community art projects from the two participating neighborhoods from 10A-2P Saturday 4/13. The groups are excited to have you join in to enjoy local music, poetry, delicious food, live mural painting and interactive creative opportunities (like enameling, button making, plant projects, etc) as we all celebrate our diverse community and local pool of talent.
[Invite the neighbors on Hibbert Street]

Mesa Prototyping Project: Community Celebration!

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Hosted by Mesa Arts Center and Mesa Artspace Lofts

Generously supported by:

• CORE Construction
• Sunbelt Holdings
• LISC Phoenix
• National Endowment for the Arts

The Newtown Community Development Corporation Was The First Community Land Trust (CLT) in Arizona.

Mission: to increase the supply of permanently affordable housing while developing and supporting homebuyers through innovative programs and partnerships.
Here's a link > https://www.newtowncdc.org/about/board-of-directors/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewtownCDC/
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Newtown Community Development Corporation (Newtown) is a Tempe-based 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Newtown was first incorporated in 1994 as Northwest Tempe Neighborhoods CDC Inc. by community members to address concerns about housing, access to basic goods and services, neighborhood preservation, sustainable development and diversity.In 2004 the CLT of Tempe merged into Newtown. It was then that Newtown’s name was changed from Northwest Tempe Neighborhoods CDC Inc. to Newtown Community Development Corporation. Newtown also established itself as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) at that time: one-third of its board members are either low-income, live in a low income census tract or represent a low-income group.
In 2008 Newtown became a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling Agency and now provides Housing Counseling services to participants throughout the Phoenix metro area.
Homebuyer workshops are provided in Chandler, Glendale, Scottsdale and Tempe. Counseling services are provided in both English and Spanish.
Also in 2008, the Board of Directors decided to strategically expand Newtown’s CLT program to surrounding communities. There are now over 136 CLT homes in Chandler, Glendale, Scottsdale and Tempe.
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David Crummey, Real Estate Development Manager
Lives here in Mesa -
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David Crummey has been with NEDCO since 2013 as our Real Estate Community Development Specialist.
He is the man that worked hard to ensure the Mesa ArtSpace Lofts would be built in our downtown, which will be breaking ground beginning of 2017.
He is one of the founders of RAIL Mesa and the Mesa Urban Garden, and is one of the people who made sure that Free Movies on Main happened every month for a year on the Sliver Lot.
Not to mention his endless support and willingness to take on whatever NEDCO needed at any time.
Crummey brought many skills, endless passion, and a bottomless vessel of knowledge to NEDCO.
Fortunately for us, we will continue to have Crummey as part of the team in his limited role ensuring that ArtSpace stays on track and gets established seamlessly in our growing downtown.
Source: http://nedcoaz.blogspot.com/


Community Land Trust
Newtown’s Community Land Trust (CLT) program provides access to homeownership for homebuyers who are otherwise priced out of the housing market. CLT homes are sold for a price well below the prevailing market. CLT homes provide greater security than renting. CLT owners benefit from stable monthly payments, security from eviction, and have an opportunity to build equity through homeowner-ship. The CLT also protects the community’s investment in affordable housing. Newtown provides on-going support to CLT owners to help ensure their success as homeowners. Newtown has not had any CLT homes go to foreclosure.


 

“There’s a lot of culpability here”: Ralph Nader on wrongful death lawsu...

Published on Apr 5, 2019

Views: 2,642

Longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader says Congress must take responsibility for the technical issues experienced by pilots on both Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and October’s Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610. “No aircraft manufacturer, not to mention Boeing, should ever be given two free disasters, that are preventable by established, long-known engineering safety practices,” he says. #DemocracyNow
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AZ Dept of Revenue office in Mesa

It's open Mon-Thu AND on Fridays from 08:00 a.m. until Noon.

Published on Apr 4, 2019

Views: 4

Effective April 8, 2019, AZ Department of Revenue will have office hours at the City of Mesa Customer Service Center at 55 N. Center St.

Community Land Trusts and Community Development

Community Control for Affordable Housing > There's a need to create more resources - how is that working here in Arizona . . . this is about an hour

Published on Apr 4, 2019

Views: 2

In this webinar, tied to LISC Research and Evaluation’s recent white paper on the topic, panelists reflect on ways that partnerships between the community development and community land trust sectors can help CLTs reach greater, and more sustainable, scale. After a brief scan of initiatives across the country, speakers from the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, the City of Lakes Community Land Trust, and the New Economy Project reflect on their own innovative initiatives to change public policy, grow community land trusts, and build movement.
Anyone interested in community land trusts and how partnerships with the community development sector are being used to bring about new pipeline and new resources for permanently affordable housing should watch the recording.

MYSTERY: WHY DOES A PRIVATE COMPANY IN TEXAS HAVE ITS VERY OWN 'AIR FORC...

A 'private air force' ???
The parent company of Airborne Tactical Advantage is Textron (Able Aerospace)

Published on Apr 5, 2019

Views: 15,709 [at time of upload to this blog]

Comments: 45

With its 63 former French air force Dassault Mirage F.1s, Fort Worth-based Airborne Tactical Advantage Company possesses an air force that, in size, rivals that of many countries.
by David Axe https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buz...

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Diversity Here In Mesa Today: Conversations in Community Leadership

The group, gathered together this morning on the stage at The Piper Theater and brought here by the ASU Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions, was the most diverse and actively engaged assembly your MesaZona blogger has ever seen in one place after living here in Downtown Mesa for over five years. Around 8 round tables from 09-11:30 a.m. this morning, the conversations multiplied from table-to-table then in an open forum of ideas

Dale Larsen, the Director of Community Relations, for Watts College can certainly be congratulated for bringing these people to the Mesa Arts Center here in downtown today. We spoke just briefly for a short time before the wrap-up when the opportunity arose.
The only city employee in plain sight on a Friday when city government is usually closed, was Cindy Orenstein, City of Mesa's Director of Arts & Culture. Councilmember Jennifer Duff [who represents downtown on the Mesa City Council] or other city leaders were simply not seen at this community leadership conversation. Mike Hutchinson, the Executive VP of the PHXEast Valley Partnership, was there, along with attorney Phil Austin sitting at a different table. Former Mesa City Councilmember Ryan Winkle, who's expanded his focus, was there also in what looked like more than 100 people.

While more than 2.5 hours might seem to a long time to hear-and-talk-and-listen and make multiple conversations, the host and interlocutor, seen gesturing in just one of many images taken at the interactive event, kept everything going smoothly, taking the time to circulate all around.

A more dynamic event I haven't seen here in Downtown Mesa - everyone covered more topics and subject-areas than imaginable.
There are a lot of players emerging from this diverse who are more than ready, willing, and able to find community solutions for all the issues we see here in Mesa.
How that all works out got off to a good start this morning.
The task ahead is to see if we can all
Work Together.
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More details later . . .