Civilitude Group welcomes Nicole Joslin to Capital A Housing!

The Civilitude Group continues to grow larger and welcomes Nicole Joslin, an Austin community leader, to Capital A Housing as our new Head of Community Design.

Nicole Joslin is a licensed Architect and experienced community planner with a diverse professional and academic background in community engaged design and housing advocacy. She became interested in how design, planning, and development can work alongside community to foster a more equitable build environment following her Hurricane Katrina recovery work along the Gulf Coast. Her 14 years of civic engagement and leadership has provided her with a deep understanding of equitable design and development processes that support more complete communities. Some of her recent projects include:

• Austin’s Strategic Housing Blueprint Implementation Plan – a plan to create 60,000 affordable units over the coming decade for households earning of approximately $60k or less through funding sources, potential regulations and creative approaches.
• Montopolis Right to Remain – a neighborhood initiative with a focus on 238 homes, to help the current residents reside in their homes while facing gentrification.
• Central Williamson Creek Greenway Community Vision Plan – A community-led vision for a resilient and connected urban floodplain across 76 acres of underutilized park-land and flood-buyout properties.

Aside from her day job, Nicole was a summer adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Architecture from 2016-2018. She helped students gain hands-on experience with a Community-Engaged Design seminar within the Public Interest Design program. Being a leader to students, Nicole implements within her teachings that the role of a designer can take many forms that aren’t often taught in the design studio. She believes that our most valuable contribution to our built environment is our thoughtful collaboration with a team – design is not only thinking about how the table is made, but who has a seat at it and what’s for dinner!

In her personal life, she enjoys hiking with her family on the greenbelt and breakfast tacos at all hours of the day.

Nicole looks forward to applying her community design skills to serving our community through a collaborative and equitable development model.

The Civilitude Group couldn’t be more excited to bring on Nicole to the Capital A Housing team.