Taking the Measure of Community
Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential
of Local Organizing, by James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, and Eric Shragge. Rutgers University Press, 2010, 208 pp. $25.95 (paper).
Frank Wilkinson’s Legacy
His was a life devoted to the preservation of our civil liberties. But it all began with a belief in decent, affordable housing.
LA Story – The Los Angeles Coalition that Made a $100 Million Housing Trust Fund Happen
January 2002 was not an auspicious time for launching expensive social initiatives in California’s largest city. Still reeling from September 11, Los Angeles faced a $200 million deficit. Mayor James […]
Magical Urbanism
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City, By Mike Davis Verso Press, June 2000 129 pp. Globalization is the overarching theme of our times. This inter-penetration of culture, economics […]
Charting a New Future
In late 1996 Southern California CDCs were reeling. The recession of the early ’90s had bottomed out but recovery was at least a year away, smoke from the 1992 Los […]
CDCs and Section 8:
Although the exact changes in project-based Section 8 programs haven’t yet been determined, change is coming, and it will not only affect present owners and managers of this housing, but […]