Housing Implementation Matrix

GOAL

Develop a diverse and inclusive mixed-income community

Celebrate the site, improve neighborhood safety/security, and create spectacular views of the surrounding areas

Create housing choices and buildings types that serve diverse needs

Establish responsive on-site management with high-quality amenities and attentive maintenance STRATEGIES

• Replace housing for extremely low-income households one-for-one • Increase high-quality affordable housing options in Western Heights • Create market-rate rental housing, integrated into the community • Design all units to be of comparable quality, mixed within buildings and blocks, so that the community is truly mixed-income

• Celebrate the views and increase access to those views for all residents and visitors • Use the existing slope to design buildings that take advantage of the grade • Promote safety through the street and block design and regular landscape maintenance

• Build a variety of building types that meet the needs and preferences of different people and household sizes • Design all units and room sizes to high-quality, contemporary standards • Design buildings and units to be accessible, visitable, and free from discrimination • Design units and buildings to be energy-efficient, sustainable, and to promote the health of residents

• Provide quality, well-maintained amenities for the development • Provide responsive and attentive management and maintenance • Incorporate thoughtful and sustainable landscape and stormwater management practices OUTCOMES

• Incomes are mixed in buildings and on blocks, so that incomes are not distinguishable from each other • Housing is well-designed and high-quality • Quality amenities serve the whole housing community

• Residents and visitors to Western Heights get to experience the views from public spaces, streets, and buildings • Residents feel safe, secure, and proud of where they live

• Residents live in high-quality housing • Residents have choices of the unit and building types that meet their family needs, abilities, and desires • Residents feel a sense of pride in their homes and neighborhood

• Residents and the management staff have a good relationship, communicate regularly, and all participate in keeping the neighborhood clean and beautiful

EXISTING CONDITIONS

• 100% of the current housing is for extremely low-income households • 0% of the current housing at Western

Heights serves low- and moderate-income households • 0% of the current housing at Western

Heights serves market-rate households TARGET METRICS

• 49.9% or less of the future new construction housing will be for extremely low-income households • Over 40% of the future new construction housing will be for low- and moderate-income households • 20% of the future new construction housing will serve market-rate households

• None of the current building types in the 1953 housing take advantage of the existing slope • 100% of the new construction building types will take advantage of the slope and views • Brinshore Development • KCDC

PARTNERS

• Brinshore Development • KCDC • City of Knoxville

• 39% of target residents rated the condition of the existing housing good or very good • 100% of target residents live in high-quality housing and rate the condition as good or very good • Brinshore Development • KCDC

• 26% of target residents rated the condition of the existing housing as poor or very poor • 100% of target residents live in high-quality housing • Brinshore Development • KCDC