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thecorridor Southwest Louisiana/LAFAYETTE/BATON ROUGE/NORTHSHORE funding and spearheaded the creation of the plan for Old South Baton Rouge. Now, it is also serving as a model for the role of the Northshore Community Foundation as it addresses the needs of the West 30s. “It provides us with a model to follow,” he says. The plan for Old South Baton Rouge is a sound The support and involvement of the Northshore Community Foundation in creating a revitalization plan for the West 30s “is the only hope for its future,” says Maureen Clary, president and chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West, which has been building homes in the West 30s since the early ’80s. “People don’t realize that a few blocks north of charming, downtown Covington you have real poverty.” —Frank Saxton 56 model for the West 30s because of numerous similarities between the two areas, Saxton says. Although the West 30s comprise a smaller geographic area, like Old South Baton Rouge it lies just blocks from prosperous neighborhoods and busy traffic arteries. Moreover, the West 30s lack a unifying blueprint to guide existing momentum on issues like affordable housing—as Old South Baton Rouge did before the completion of its own revitalization plan. Unity of purpose provided by a clear, overall plan strengthens local projects while better positioning local organizations’ pursuit of various funding sources, Saxton says. “We see our role as facilitating a process to bring the synergies in the area together, because there is a risk of losing those synergies without that,” he says. Current momentum in the West 30s includes a $20 million, 94-unit affordable housing joint venture by Habitat for Humanity and Volunteers of America and a land trust operated by the Northshore Housing Initiative, which has built numerous houses in the neighborhood, Saxton says. The comprehensive neighborhood assessment that will take place over the coming year is part of what makes the planning process itself so valuable, says Clary. “This is a chance to really look closely at the problems in the neighborhood,” she says. As in Baton Rouge, community leaders in the West 30s will play a critical role in the formulation of the plan. The foundation’s initial focus has been identifying and recruiting local leaders from the West 30s to serve on a steering committee to guide the planning process—and the end result. “This is a neighborhood revitalization plan and it has to be led by the neighborhood,” Saxton says. “This can’t be a foundation plan, but a plan driven by the community and the West 30s itself.” • Baton Rouge Area Foundation
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