Convening since 2014
Evansville needs 3,000 more affordable housing units.
HOUSE is the monthly meeting where the people who build, fund, inspect, and fill them sit down together.
Unit gap figure from For Evansville and the HOUSE coalition
Next monthly meeting
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What we are
The whole thing runs on attendance.
HOUSE is not incorporated and has no staff or budget. What it has is a standing monthly meeting where local government, nonprofit developers, lenders, and service providers keep each other current on what is actually happening in Evansville's housing stock.
Inform
Everyone leaves knowing more than they came with
Program changes, funding rounds, code updates, and project milestones get shared in the room before they show up in a press release.
Connect
Introductions that would not happen otherwise
A developer with a gap in the stack and a lender with a CRA target are frequently in the same room and did not previously know it.
Advocate
One response instead of nine letters
When state or federal policy shifts, HOUSE members coordinate a shared response rather than sending nine separate letters.
Who is in the room
Nine kinds of organization at one table.
A single vacant duplex can be a code case and a financing problem at the same time, so the attendance list is broad on purpose.
Twice a year
Prosperity Indiana regional meetings
HOUSE hosts Prosperity Indiana in Evansville a couple of times a year. Practitioners get state and federal community development policy updates, and Prosperity gets a read on conditions here.
Next Prosperity convening
Dates are announced through the HOUSE mailing list first. Registration typically opens three to four weeks out.
Meetings
Agendas and notes
HOUSE meets monthly. Agendas go out to the mailing list the week before, and notes are posted here within a few days after. Anyone working on housing in the Evansville area is welcome to attend.
Archive
Looking for something older? Email the facilitators and we will dig it out.
Projects map
What is being built, where, and for whom
A shared, member-maintained record of affordable and mixed-income housing projects across the Evansville area. Anyone can submit a project or a correction, and facilitators review before it goes live.
Resources
Housing resources
Programs, funding sources, data, and direct assistance contacts that HOUSE members use regularly. If a link is dead or something is missing, tell a facilitator and we will fix it.
Mailing list
Join the list
Meeting agendas, notes, funding notices, and policy updates. Roughly two to four emails a month, more in the weeks before Prosperity.