Subject: Communities

  • The People’s Court

    Cleveland housing court Judge Raymond Pianka uses innovative legal tactics to achieve code compliance, but is it enough to stabilize neighborhoods?

  • Not every land reuse will result in a profit.

    Planning on Shrinking

    It’s time to understand that shrinkage is no longer somebody else’s problem.

  • Fighting Predatory Equity

    When predatory equity investors take a gamble on multifamily housing, it's the tenants who suffer -- whether from harassment or crumbling buildings. Advocates and tenants in New York have won the fight to get some of these buildings into responsible hands, but many are still in limbo, and some are reentering the cycle of speculation.

  • The Green Team of Slavic Village Development, a Cleveland CDC, creating raised bed gardens.

    Where Do We Fit In? CDCs and the Emerging Shrinking City Movement

    As some cities begin to admit they are shrinking, CDCs in high-abandonment neighborhoods are rethinking their traditional roles, and even their missions.

  • Transportation and Fair Housing Part 1: We Need a Better Measure of Opportunity

    Factoring in costs that tend to be lower in urban high-poverty neighborhoods, but not costs that tend to be higher there makes the H+T Index unsuitable as a tool for locating low-income housing.

  • DJ Kool Herc, whose back-to-school parties in the 1970s at 1520 Sedgwick are considered by many to be the genesis of hip-hop.

    Saving the Birthplace of Hip-Hop

    A Bronx-based building known as the birthplace of hip-hop has been the subject of a high-profile tug of war between gambling real-estate investors and an eclectic yet powerful group of tenants, housing advocates, city agencies, local politicians, and hip-hop artists. The building’s well-publicized plight has helped shine a light on the threat predatory equity poses to affordable multifamily housing.

  • Philadelphia’s Greensgrow Farm began in 1998 on a former brownfield site in a low-income neighborhood.

    Greening Vacant Land

    Urban agriculture projects bring hope -- and food -- to communities that have long suffered from a glut of empty lots.

  • Residents of Champlain Housing Trust, Burlington, Vt.

    Stewardship Works

    Community land trusts succeed in curing delinquencies and preventing foreclosures, and the numbers show it.

  • The Great American Fire Sale

    Investors have played, and will continue to play, an important role in foreclosure-ravaged communities. What can towns do to ensure investors are responsible, and what role can CDCs play?

  • Volunteers, taking part in an extensive NSP plan in Goshen, Ind., participate in a volunteer work day organized by La Casa of Goshen.

    Volunteerism in Community Development: Going Beyond a Helping Hand

    The 2008 presidential campaign showed us another side of volunteering. It drew literally millions of people, many for the first time, into the electoral process. But beyond political campaigns, can volunteerism provide increased capacity for communities and community organizations?

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