Ashley Tucker

Believer, neighborhood unicorn, & community economic development professional. UNC MPA/MCRP. WSSU Alumna.

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

Happy we are having this discussion about evaluating the state of homeownership for millennials and what disconnects might exist in the data. @natlhousingconf #Solutions2018

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

The data seems to suggest that millennials don’t want to own homes. However, it’s more so that student loan debt and a variety of economic factors has impacted our ability to do so. @natlhousingconf #Solutions2018

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

@TheNotoriousPHE @natlhousingconf We’ve discussed manufactured housing and tools/legislation such as Duty to Serve and the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act. Happy to share my notes/observations post-session!

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

Awesome session on Filling the Affordable Housing Gap @natlhousingconf #Solutions2018

[SAHF @SAHForg]

Stability, Affordability, and (Social) Equity—the three essential principles for GSE reform says @HPEquityTrust’s Anne McCulloch. Fantastic panels at @natlhousingconf’s #Solutions2018!

[Economic Innovation Group @InnovateEconomy]

.@MDHousing Secretary Kenneth Holt closes the @StateMaryland, @MDHousing, @MDBiz Opportunity Zones Conference — an excellent example of collaboration between states, localities, and the private sector and important building blocks of #OpportunityZones success.

[Economic Innovation Group @InnovateEconomy]

Bath Bafford, VP at @calvertimpcap, highlights the importance of impact integrity and investor accessibility for generating inclusive economic opportunity in #OpportunityZones at the @StateMaryland, @MDHousing, @MDBiz Opportunity Zones Conference.

[Economic Innovation Group @InnovateEconomy]

Frank Dickson of @MDHousing Strategic Business Initiatives & Steve Pennington, Managing Director at @MDBiz, highlight potential new projects in #OpportunityZones across Maryland at the @StateMaryland, @MDHousing, @MDBiz Opportunity Zones Conference.

[Economic Innovation Group @InnovateEconomy]

Michael White, @MDHousing Chief of Staff, discusses @StateMaryland’s #OpportunityZones selection process at the @StateMaryland, @MDHousing, @MDBiz Opportunity Zones Conference.

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

Why are opportunity zones needed now? Because at this point in time, over 52 million Americans (1 in 6) live in economically distressed communities. - @LettieriDC #OpportunityZones

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

Excited to be at the Maryland Opportunity Zones Conference today to learn more about this exciting new tool for community development! #OpportunityZones

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

Anti-development groups are asking DC to downzone swaths of the city on Monday via @ggwash https://t.co/266N0Clh7W

[Next City @NextCityOrg]

“The topic of how [public] spaces exclude women, or how they can so quickly give way to a life-or-death situation for women who do use them, is rarely addressed in today’s urban planning process.” https://t.co/PRTshmTtAE

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

@julieplec Listen, I love him. Why is his life so sad??? Are you ever going to give him any peace? I just gotta know. This show is not good for my emotions, Julie!

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

@julieplec Julie, I’m catching up on The Originals and we gotta talk about Vincent.

[Hannah Brencher @hannahbrencher]

A prayer you can steal: Reduce me to love. Help me to see beneath the surface. Help me to be a familiar face in a crowd, a light in a dark room. Turn me into love and wipe out all the excess fear.

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

“The new form of redlining is FICO scores.” Ernst Valery, EVI Development #HANDAM18

[Ashley Tucker @AshSTucker]

It’s great to be at the HAND Annual Meeting & Housing Expo. Looking forward to discussing the historical effects of redlining and the work of rebuilding communities! #HANDAM18 #UndesigntheRedline

[Ayanna @ayannazmathis]

If you know anything about black hair, curly hair, whatever, you know that shrinkage is beautiful and REAL. There’s black women walking around with whole bundles but because our hair can tightly coil up when dry, it doesn’t appear like we got it. But we do.

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

A new poll suggests that most people in the United States think we need to turn away from building prisons, and toward community development. https://t.co/dg8HGY3Gcc