Building community wealth and reversing urban sprawl
The Changing Ground Project is a housing and community development initiative that uses land readjustment to build community wealth for property owners while creating opportunities for investors. The objective is to transform existing, low-density areas into economically stronger, more prosperous mixed-use neighborhoods for the benefit of the community.
The Changing Ground Project is fiscally sponsored by FJC, a 501c3 public charity. As such, all donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Board of Trustees
Raj Chundur
President
Raj Chundur is the Director of the Cincinnati Area Geographic Information Systems (CAGIS), Ohio, a regional consortium of Local governments and Utilities. With a background in Urban Planning, 20 years of professional experience in GIS and awards for innovative work, he is committed to the vision of an integrated GIS as a platform that supports effective day-to-day mission critical Local Government operations. He has extensive experience in business process design, integrating GIS within business processes, achieving collaboration and coordination of services among agencies. His interests include analytics for business operational management and institutionalizing the use of GIS in local governments.
Jay Mittal
Treasurer
Dr. Jay Mittal is an associate professor of urban planning and real estate development at Auburn University, Al where he served as a director of the graduate planning program too. With over 25 years of professional experience in private consulting, research, and academic settings in the United States and India, Jay was professionally engaged with several communities in the South East United States and India on master planning, area redevelopment plans, and has published in reputed academic journals on topics of land value capture, tools of land based financing and Land Readjustment and land Pooling process and outcomes.
Andrea Jandricek
Secretary
Andrea Jandricek is an architect with a strong commitment to using land readjustment to strengthen communities. She has worked on numerous projects, from housing in New York City to historic preservation in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine Historic District and the Brent Spence Bridge project. She is a registered architect in the State of New York, a certified Passive House Designer by the Passive House Institute in Germany, and a LEED-certified professional. She holds a BA degree in Architecture from Columbia University in the City of New York and master's degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Zagreb in Croatia.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Evangelia Balla, Urban and Regional Planner, Land Policy Advisor, Researcher at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geoinformation Management (ITC), University of Twente
Nicholas D. Bloom, PhD, Director, Master in Urban Planning Program, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College, City University of New York
Angela Brooks, AICP, Development Manager, Chicago Housing Authority
Yu Hung Hong, PhD, Research Associate and former Director of Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Laboratory, MIT
Andrew Jakabovics, VP, Policy Development, Enterprise Community Partners
Dean Mencius, Consultant