The Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR) conducts a variety of year-round programming.
HOUSING REDEVELOPMENT – PHAR is engaging with our residents to ensure the redevelopment process is resident led from beginning to end!
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING – PHAR needs you to stand up, speak up, and act out to protect and improve our public housing communities! For programming related to Youth, please connect with Youth Program coordinator Asia Green at asia@pharcville.org.
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM – All residents of public housing and Section 8 recipients are eligible to participate in the program. The program requires 10 hours per week of learning, organizing, and working to improve our community, and an on-going commitment to improving your neighborhood. Interns earn a stipend per hour for 4-6 months. We are always recruiting for the next internship, please email our Internship Coordinator Asia Green at asia@pharcville.org.
RESIDENTS FOR RESPECTFUL RESEARCH – The purpose of Residents for Respectful Research (R3) is to assure that public housing residents understand, have input to, and benefit from research conducted on/with public housing residents – whether that is by senior faculty or students. There is widespread concern among public housing residents of how research data are used, and how their lives are represented. In addition to rarely receiving the benefits of research done in their communities, uncoordinated research places time burdens on residents. For example, many have to answer basic demographic, economic or health status questions whenever a project gets started. For information on resident-reviewed research, please contact R3 Coordinator Cam Gaillard at cam@pharcville.org.
