David Holtzman
David Holtzman is a planner for Louisa County, Va., a freelance writer, and a Shelterforce contributing editor.
ARTICLES IN SHELTERFORCE since jan 08
- Getting from Here to There
Transit advocates and CDCs in two parts of the greater Boston
region are building cross-movement coalitions that are making
equitable transit-oriented development a part of the fight for
better transit access. - Homeownership Done Right
While the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance is helping people buy homes, their aim is to build an army of trained homeowners to engage their own neighbors in organizing and advocacy.
- Home Again
With the help of its local community development corporation, a Boston neighborhood comes to terms with its transformation as a beloved church, long a treasured part of the community is reborn as housing.
POSTS ON ROOFLINES
- Jan 18 · Some Thoughts On This Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Dec 27 · Where’s the Alt-City?
- Oct 20 · Is it: “Faster, Stimulus! Spend! Spend!” or “Think Before You Buy”?
- Sep 14 · Sometimes Vacant Land is Just Fine
- Aug 31 · Green Jobs For Real?
- Aug 11 · Locavores, Beware
- Aug 2 · Housing as Economic Growth? Strange Idea, But Not in Massachusetts
- Jul 13 · Short-Term Stimulus and Planning for the Long Term
- Jun 21 · A Third Strand of Sustainable Housing
- Jun 7 · Detroit as a Test Site of the Green Future
- May 11 · Bringing Victims of Foreclosure Back Home
- May 3 · Bring the Green to Rental Buildings
- Apr 13 · Three Ways Not to Transform Parks — And One That Can Work
- Apr 6 · Big City Papers: Do We Even Need Them?
- Mar 22 · Get Your Green On
- Feb 22 · The Mystery of a Mere Idea
- Feb 16 · Commuter Rail’s Promise
- Feb 8 · Let’s Take Advantage of The Bad Times
- Jan 26 · Television: The Drug of the Public Realm
- Jan 18 · Keep Single Family Homes in Mind
- Jan 12 · Disasters in Tough Times
- Jan 4 · Considering the Townhouse
- Dec 21 · A Few Slightly Radical Ideas to Ponder
- Dec 8 · Density Revisited
- Nov 23 · Don’t Put All The Dollars Into a Few Streets?
- Nov 16 · The Trials of Grass-roots Community Planning
- Nov 9 · Sorting Through What Sustainability Means
- Nov 1 · Get Your Bike On
- Oct 19 · Transient America
- Oct 13 · Restructuring in the works for some CDCs
- Oct 5 · Planning vs. Development: Can We Really Choose One?
- Sep 18 · What Does the Financial Crisis Mean for CDCs?
- Sep 3 · NIMBYism in the Big City
- Aug 17 · What Responsibilities Do Institutions Have In Their Communities?
- Jul 8 · Gentrification Keeps Trying to Improve its Image
- Jun 29 · Bluegrass, Rodeos, and Other Signs of a Living Community
- Jun 22 · Obama Talks Up Metropolitanism
- Jun 15 · Make Your Streets Livable!
- Jun 9 · Defining the Creative Economy People
- Jun 3 · Transit-Oriented, But Affordable?
- May 25 · Putnam’s “E Pluribus Unum”: Part of the Story
- May 18 · You’re Gonna Change the Economy? How, Exactly?

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