Barack Obama’s Blueprint for Change is a document that should resonate deeply with the historic preservation and rehabilitation communities. Why? Because it is grounded in the basic idea that we should be creating more livable and sustainable communities. Historic preservation, the original recycling, is by definition sustainable development.
Among its preservation-friendly features, the Blueprint for Change does the following:
Affordable Housing
• Promotes an increase in the supply of affordable housing. America’s historic buildings provide many opportunities to house people of modest means; rehabilitating this historic housing stock with help from CDBG, Historic Tax Credits, Low-Income Tax Credits and other sources, remains one of the best solutions we have to the affordable housing crisis.
Smart Growth
• Acknowledges the issue of sprawl and calls for a regional approach to development. Revitalizing our historic buildings and core neighborhoods is an obvious antidote.
Concentrated Poverty
• Calls for establishing “Promise Neighborhoods” to bring a comprehensive strategy to fighting neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. As a result of suburbanization and other trends, historic neighborhoods have a higher-than-average incidence of concentrated poverty, and strategies that leverage historic values are a component of a comprehensive program for revitalizing these neighborhoods.
Climate Change and Energy Efficient Buildings
• Given the energy it takes to build new, using tools like the federal Historic Tax Credits to adaptively reuse older buildings is one of the best strategies we have for promoting energy efficient buildings.
Rural Heritage and Development
• Promotes rural America and its economic development. Heritage tourism and historic main streets have proven to be economic fundamentals of rural America.
Healthy Communities
• Recognizes that how communities are designed has a huge impact on health. Historic neighborhoods are invariably walkable, well designed and tend to be more racially, ethnically, educationally and economically diverse.
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The core of historic preservation is resource stewardship. More than in any election in recent memory, the 2008 presidential election is about the stewardship of resources-- natural, built and cultural. The next president will have a profound opportunity to shape the national dialogue on these important questions which is why preservationist can't afford to sit on the sidelines in this election. And, why our next president should be Barack Obama.
HPfO is a grassroots network of people from the historic preservation and rehabilitation communities. We seek to promote the resurgence of America's older and historic neighborhoods by supporting Barack Obama for President.
Although our issues of affordable housing, sustainability and heritage may be well known, the preservation movement sometimes isn't. To combat this, another aim of HPfO is to let Barack Obama know that there is a strong constituency of folks involved in historic rehab and preservation eager to work with him to revitalize our communities.
To learn more, visit us at www.historicpreservationforobama.org
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What HPfO Members are Watching:
Demolition of the Historic ESCB - Buffalo, NY; What's the bigger waste? -- the embodied energy, the master craftsmanship or the memories of the place? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL9YLSOlOso
“Samantha Bee's apocalyptic tale of an America reduced to shopping on traditional main streets -- brillant!
The Ybor Civic Association will be holding a neighborhood yard sale on Saturday, April 4 from 9:15 am to 1 pm at Centennial Park in Ybor City. We invite anyone who would like to sell or shop to come out for this event.
Anyone is welcome to rent a table to sell their gently used and unwanted goods for $10 per table. The $10 fee covers the table rental, marketing/ads, and provides a small amount to HYNCA to support association activities.
TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS! We want 500,000 Facebook friends on our own Yasgur's farm in cyberspace by August 15, 2009 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. http://www. facebook. com/group. php?gid=117081835299
This group is brought to you by the authors of Woodstock-Peace Music and Memories, a new publication from Krause Publications (Goldmine Magazine) that brings to life the 3 days of peace and music through the stories and personal photos of those who were there. http://www. amazon. com/Woodstock-Peace-Memories-Brad-Littleproud/dp/0896898334
This is an unofficial Facebook group for the events planned to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in White Lake, New York. This group will serve to provide up to the minute news, announcements and rumors associated with "official" Woodstock events from Woodstock Ventures Inc. and sanctioned celebrations. You will also find news on recent media associated with Woodstock and its 40th anniversary.
Brad Littleproud and Joanne Hague were lead preservationists in the pursuit of the historic preservation of the original Woodstock festival site in Bethel New York. http://www. woodstockpreservation. org/
We invite Facebook friends to post their questions and quandaries about Woodstock, and use this group to seek information about the events that will be talked out in the months to come.
We'd love to see some of the Historic Preservation for Obama posse show up for our historic holiday homes tour in November. Keeping our fingers crossed...
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