Subject: Communities

  • Operation Neighborhood Recovery

    Urban Essex County, New Jersey, one of the hardest hit areas in the state by the ongoing foreclosure crisis, could be the laboratory for a reinvention of community development. A local CDC there has completed the successful acquisition, by way of an alliance of nonprofits, of 47 mortgages expected to foreclose with an eye toward stabilizing neighborhoods in some of the oldest suburban communities in New Jersey.

  • Matthew Brian Hersh/Shelterforce ©2009

    Great Falls And The Silk City

    New Jersey's Paterson is the nation's oldest planned industrial city -- depend on who you ask. But it has fallen on hard times since the once-booming silk industry there declined in the latter half of the 20th century. Much of the industry in this city of 150,000 has since left, but with the help of a local CDC there, as well as corporate and community partners, a geological attraction once envisioned by Alexander Hamilton as something that could be harnessed for industrial might, is fully protected, and being prepared for a makeover.

  • Save Middle East Action Committee (SMEAC) held a celebration after a successful community meeting.

    Taming Eminent Domain

    We can harness backlash against eminent domain abuses in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Kelo decision to bring about genuine community empowerment in the redevelopment process.

  • The historic Sheffield Farms stable building (foreground) on Broadway, will be razed for Columbia's expansion.

    Will Columbia Take Manhattanville?

    Balancing an Ivy League university's expansion plan with a Harlem neighborhood's needs is a tricky business, especially when eminent domain is in the mix.

  • Staking On Community

  • Street corner scene from Tremont Street, in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Take and Give

    Turning eminent domain into a tool for creating vital communities hinges on crafting a delicate balance between all who stand to benefit -- or lose out -- from the transformation of a neighborhood.

  • An auction sign sits in the front yard of a foreclosed home in Cleveland on Jan. 14, 2008.

    Running on Empty

    For decades, community developers have relied on the power of markets to bring neighborhoods back, but they can't build their way out of the foreclosure mess.

  • Getting it Done

    An AmeriCorps program that brings together talented young people and community-development groups seeking greater capacity is making a difference in Indianapolis.

  • Construction at Musician's Village, a Habitat for Humanity Project in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.

    Struggling in the Crescent City

    Grass-roots advocacy groups and community-advocacy organizations are taking the lead in restoring housing in New Orleans.

  • Boarded up houses in foreclosure are a common sight in Cleveland's predominantly African-American East Side neighborhood.

    Weathering the Storm

    As the foreclosure tsunami sweeps through Ohio's communities, housing advocates devise strategies to keep homeowners from being pulled under.

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