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In March of 2009, Sustainable Neighborhood Development Strategies, Inc. was launched with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. SNDSI is a new nonprofit entity that is working strategically to stabilize the housing market in Atlanta's Pittsburgh neighborhood and to increase economic development investments in Atlanta's Neighborhood Planning Unit V (NPU-V) in a way that ensures that current neighborhood residents benefit from those investments. SNDSI has formed the Partnership for the Preservation of Pittsburgh (PPoP) with Pittsburgh Community Improvement Association (PCIA) and together they are implementing a innovative community development strategy in response to the foreclosure crisis in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. With initial support from Casey and federal funding through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, PPoP involves a strategic program of property acquisition and banking and workforce development. By working in partnership with The Center for Working Families, Inc., Georgia Trade Up and New Horizons, PPoP is connecting residents with jobs and career opportunities in the securing, maintaining and rehabbing of the homes. This plan will enable PPoP and its community partners to provide healthy and energy efficient homes for current and new residents and to take advantage of the many assets already in the neighborhood such as its high performing schools. SNDSI will also manage the development of the Casey Foundation-owned land along University Avenue. The Foundation purchased these 31.4 acres in 2006 with the goal of creating a mixed-income, mixed use development. Since purchasing the land, the Atlanta Civic Site has been working with residents and stakeholders in the three neighborhood planning units that border the tract. SNDSI is continuing to work with ACS as it engages these residents in its efforts to stabilize the housing market in Pittsburgh and to inform its long range efforts to develop the land on University Avenue. To learn more about SNDSI,
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