Topic: Affordable Housing in Holland
Sundays, February 9 & 16
9:40 am | Commons
The Community Ministry is beginning an occasional series of Adult Ed sessions focusing on current issues in our community, focusing in particular on local agencies and issues focused on in our annual benevolence budget. In February there will be two sessions focusing on affordable housing in the greater Holland community:
February 9: What is the current situation for affordable housing and what are the anticipated needs? Why does a community need to focus on affordable and transitional housing? What are some of the successes, challenges, roadblocks and trends that leaders in our community identify? We will have guests from Good Samaritan and Community Housing Partnership lead our discussion.
February 16: This session will focus on various approaches to providing housing in the community, including organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Jubilee, and Homecor. Different agencies can help us to think through solutions to affordable housing that are sustainable and beneficial for the entire community.
With these sessions and for the ongoing occasional series on community issues, there will be an emphasis both on how Hope Church folks are already involved in these issues and on how others can also become involved. Our goal is to see the support we offer to our community not as annual gifts but as ongoing engagement and involvement in service to and learning from our neighbors.