Led City Council to Acquire Developable Real Estate
In 2008, the demolition of the old Ann Arbor YMCA building resulted in the closure of 100 affordable housing units.
Ten years later, I laid out a new vision for the site: Mixed-income, mixed-use development that would maximize the number of affordable units on site and serve an an anchor for the redevelopment of a long-ignored downtown corridor.
Read more about this initiative here.
Created a Framework for Building Affordable Housing on Publicly Owned Land
Since 2015, the City has had tremendous success utilizing public-private partnerships to rehabilitate, operate, and maintain its 400 affordable housing units. Building on the vision for the Old YMCA Lot (see above), I scaled the approach to two other publicly owned sites that sat blighted and dormant for years.
In the last two years, this model for planning affordable housing on publicly owned land has further been applied to seven other sites. In total, the City of Ann Arbor now has an overarching plan to develop 1,200 units of housing across these properties.
