National Housing Conference: Housing Person of the Year Gala 2013
On Thursday, June 20, 2013, the National Housing Conference held its annual Housing Person of the Year Gala at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. NeighborWorks America (Eileen Fitzgerald, […]
CAPACD 2013: ‘Lei’-ing the Groundwork of Future Reform
Aloha! No, I did not just return from a tropical Hawaiian vacation. Rather, the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD) conference, where each speaker received a lei, […]
Don’t Just Investigate, Apply the ACORN Rule
When ACORN, a community organizing anti-poverty group, was stripped of federal funds after (false) accusations of voter fraud were pushed on Congress by the Republican party, the “rule of ACORN” […]
A Community-Driven HIA
The Healthy Corridor for All HIA examined the effects of zoning decisions around a planned light rail line in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area (see “Making Light Rail Stop for Us,” […]