Community Engagement Resources
The below resources are available to communities wishing to broaden their community engagement strategies and adopt creative community engagement techniques.
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How Do We Talk About Housing?
How Do We Talk About Housing? A Guide to Community Engagement and Grassroots Advocacy is a nine-step guide intended to facilitate local movements toward more housing-friendly land use regulations. The guide leans on a foundation of engaging conversations, housing stories, relationship-building, and inclusivity.
- Strong Towns: Getting a Response from Local Leaders
- 9 Ways to Change an Elected Official’s Mind
- NIMBYs Dominate Local Zoning Meetings
- Frameworks Institute’s Piecing It Together: A Communications Playbook for Affordable Housing Advocates
- Framework’s Institute’s You Don’t Have to Live Here: Why Housing Messages are Backfiring and 10 Things We Can Do About It
Further reading…
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters by Priya Parker
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
Dream Play Build: Hands on Community Engagement for Enduring Spaces and Places by James Rojas and John Kamp