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CDC/ Developer Sponsor (optional):
Your role — please select one of the following:
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Student
Developer
Mentor
Faculty Advisor
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QUESTIONS FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS
1.
Is the measure of affordability used in the competition—40 percent of the units affordable to households at 60 percent of the area median income—appropriate or should another measure be used? What should the measure be?
2.
What was the best part of the Competition for you?
3.
What was the worst part of the Competition for you?
4.
What changes would you recommend for the Competition for future years (e.g. additional requirements, additional resources for the teams, changes to the submission or judging criteria, ways to vett participating developers, ways to streamline the competition and the proposals, or the overall timeline)? All your suggestions are welcome.
QUESTIONS FOR STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
5.
How did you hear about the Competition?
6.
What was your main motivation for participating?
7.
How did you join your team?
8.
How easy was it to find a CDC/developer sponsor?
9.
Did you feel that the developer/student team matching process worked successfully?
10.
If not, how would you improve the matching process?
11.
How easy was your CDC/developer sponsor to work with?
12.
How would you rate your experience with your group?
In what areas was your team strong? In what areas was it weak?
13.
Please identify key attributes in a developer organization which would be most useful for the team to work with? E.g. site control, staff time reserved to work with team, a certain level of development expertise?
14.
How and to what extent did your team involve your faculty advisor?
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How useful was your finance mentor?
16.
How useful was your design mentor?
17.
Would you recommend your finance and/or design mentors for the following year?
18.
If no, please indicate the mentor(s)' name(s):
19.
How useful were the workshops?
20.
What topics were most useful to discuss in the workshops?
21.
Please indicate other areas that would have been useful to learn about in the workshops:
22.
Please indicate how useful were the mentor meetings.
23.
How useful was the online Affordable Housing Design Advisor (www.designadvisor.org)?
*If you did not use the Design Advisor, why not?
24.
How many hours a week did you spend on the competition?
Was the workload [more than /same as /less than what you expected?
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More than
Same as
Less than
25.
In terms of team expenses related to the competition and printing of the proposals, was $700 sufficient?
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$700 was sufficient
$800
$900
$1,000
26.
Would you prefer a paperless proposal submission?
27.
Would you be interested in working on the Competition next year? If so, please leave your contact information.
