PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES

The Center for Housing Policy has developed four ways for communities to learn more about shared-equity strategies and offers a multimedia suite of resources at nhi.org/go/nhc.

In Analyzing Land Readjustment: Economics, Law, and Collective Action, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy fellow Yu-Hung Hong offers an alternative to current eminent domain practices. He proposes land readjustment, which involves giving property owners a stake in the redevelopment project – an approach that has been practiced in France, Germany, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Taiwan. www.nhi.org/go/lincolninst

New Society Publishers released The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking, by Jay Walljasper, senior fellow of Project for Public Spaces (PPS) and executive editor of Ode Magazine. www.nhi.org/go/diyplace

What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation, an anthology of post-Katrina writing, is available from South End Press. www.southendpress.org

Rural communities and economic-development issues are the focus of the Spring 2007 issue of Community Investments. It highlights ways that practitioners and policymakers are shifting their efforts toward the development of local assets – such as building leadership and entrepreneurial capacity – and discusses innovative ways to leverage limited resources to build housing, improve infrastructure, and reduce poverty.

We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do – and Why, by writer/editor Kristin Layng Szakos and Virginia Organizing Project executive director Joe Szakos, helps to demystify organizing and offers a glimpse into the lives of people who do it. www.nhi.org/go/vbpress

AWARDS

The General Mills Foundation will award 50 $10,000 Celebrating Communities of Color grants to nonprofit organizations that serve communities of color in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The grant program focuses on four areas: social service, youth nutrition and fitness, education, and arts and culture. Deadline: September 1.

www.nhi.org/go/generalmills