Mission
NHabited is a community-based participatory project designed to increase the occupancy, empowerment and overall health of Birmingham’s neighborhoods and commercial districts by expanding the capacity of community-based teams to gather, create and disseminate information among their internal and external stakeholders.
Vision
The vision of NHabited is to be a scalable and replicable model for the revitalization of each of Birmingham’s neighborhoods and commercial districts.
NHabited is an initiative of the phdpreplab.
For more on our work, thoughts and approach to community revitalization, please see the following articles:
As it relates to housing, are you an innovator, laggard or somewhere in between?
Photos: 2015 Vulcan Community Awards
NHabit Bush Hills: UAB Magazine Article
2015 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service with NHabit Bush Hills
UAB, NHabit and the President’s Community Service Honor Roll
WBRC FOX6 News Segment on NHabit Bush Hills
Students and Faculty Work to Solve “Wicked Problems”
Donuts, Rings, Arches and Crescents: What’s the shape of your city?
Is your house really worth what your tax assessor says it worth?
City of Birmingham’s Citizen Participation Plan
We were nominated! Game Changer Vulcan Award
Community Health Innovation: Translating and Transferring Research from the Campus to the Community
Comment: Should Urban Universities Help Their Neighbors?
To subscribe to updates from the ongoing work of the NHabited project (especially in the Bush Hills neighborhood), sign up here: http://eepurl.com/bZWo35.
To subscribe to updates regarding NHabited’s Community Health Innovation Survey, sign up here: http://eepurl.com/bX50kz.
The NHabited team is conducting a survey to gather people’s ideas (and frustrations) regarding the present condition of the following areas in the City of Birmingham: Neighborhoods, Communication, Public Administration and Community Health. We’re aiming to get 1,000 people who live, work, play, learn, shop, worship or serve/give in Birmingham to complete this short survey:
NHabited Birmingham Innovation Survey
A summary report of our results will be shared with interested parties in our local governmental, educational, public health, philanthropic and business communities with the power to take action.
To maximize the number of opinions gathered, would you mind forwarding this survey to others in your network?
