In the late 1990s, the leadership of Neighborhood Conservation Services (NCS) of Barberton, Ohio - housing rehabilitation nonprofit organization founded two decades ago to help reverse the decline of this aging industrial city - found its once popular mission suddenly became politically controversial. For a long time the idea of ​​forbidding the use of public funds target low-interest loans to low-income homeowners questioned elected officials in the city of 28,000, officials are concerned that limiting loans to those with low income - coupled with the concentration of public housing and housing subsidies - can make Barberton "magnet" for families with low incomes. Mayor intention to revive the tax base of the city and attract and retain the middle class challenged NCS, to demonstrate how his policies would help the city. This new political climate creates difficult and crucial strategic objectives of the organization - which relied on the funds approved by the City Council for the vast majority of its budget. NCS, said its leadership will have to find a way to reconcile his mission with the new political climate in the city or find a new way to fund their programs - or just close shop. This non-profit event management involves the opportunity to discuss how the organizational strategy to adapt to political changes. In particular, the question of the extent and nature of the duties of those who receive public funds transferred to the elected officials. The case can also be used in the discussion of housing policy as such, to examine the question of when and where the housing subsidies are appropriate. HKS Case Number 1707.0 "Hide
by Howard Husock, David Brown, Christine W. Letts 29 pages. Publication Date: November 1, 2003. Prod. #: HKS143-PDF-ENG
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