engagement design summer 2022 - present

collaboration: Urban Housing Solutions

Beginning in the summer of 2023, my work at Urban Housing Solutions (UHS), a Nashville based nonprofit organization which works to build affordable housing and supportive communities throughout the Nashville area, has been to help collaborate with our development and resident services teams to find opportunities to meet and learn from our residents and neighbors in the neighborhoods we serve, design engagement activities and communication materials. The several projects shown here are a result of months of community research and input, and ultimately help UHS build better relationships with our residents, neighbors, and partners, and learn how to be better neihbors ourselves.

610 E Old Hickory Blvd is a 14 acre site in Madison, TN owned by Urban Housing Solutions (UHS), a non-profit affordable housing development organization based in Nashville, TN. Over the course of several months in the summer of 2022, our team canvassed the neighborhood surrounding 610, designed activities we brought to the local farmer’s market, and met

610 E Old Hickory Blvd

with local business owners and community organizations to ask people what they loved most about their neighborhood and how we could best serve them.

Follwing interviews with residents, staff members, and community partners, survey responses, a focus group, and resident led tours through 26th & Clarksville Phase 3, a dedicated senior affordable housing community in west Nasvhille, a report was organized evaluating the experience of residents and staff members at 26th & Clarksville, issues to be addressed and community suggestions for solutions, lessons to be learned to make future projects even better.

Over several months coordinating with our development and resident services team, UHS’s first annual report was put together to be able to communicate who we are to

UHS 2022 annual report story boarding, graphic design & illustration

prospective residents and exciting milestones to current residents and community and state partners who help UHS succeed in their goal of building affordable homes and supportive communities.