Jeremy Liu
Jeremy Liu is a consultant and principal of Creative Ecology (www.creativeecology.net), and most recently served as executive director of the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation in Oakland (www.ebaldc.org).
Poetry on the Panel
Attendees at the 2015 PolicyLink Equity Summit experienced something unexpected when they walked into many of the panels and workshops: a poetry performance.
Poetry Is Not a Luxury to Achieving Racial, Social, and Economic Equity
In her essay, Poetry Is Not a Luxury, Audre Lorde, the Caribbean-American writer, poet, radical feminist, lesbian, and civil...
Time to Bet on Prize-Linked Savings
During 15 years of working within a community development corporation to create and support socially and economically resilient communities, one of my perpetual frustrations...
How CDCs (and TIFs) Might Help Create Equitable Public School Districts
As many parents know instinctively, and economists have shown, there’s a reason why the housing cost in many communities is...
Affordable Housing Doesn’t Have Enough Advocates, Science Explains Why
In May, Scientific American (SA) published an article entitled “You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think.” The title refers to...
Can Community Development Solve the Municipal Budget Crisis?
Oakland, Calif., like many cities, is beginning an annual or biennial budget process and coming to terms with the stark realities of structural problems...
The New Age of Code Enforcement
A recent post in Rooflines by Alan Mallach entitled “5 Things Cities and CDCs Don’t Get About Code Enforcement”...
We Should Be Running This Place: Electing More Community Developers
I hosted a meet-and-greet recently for first-time candidate Lynette McElhaney (pictured), who was newly elected to the City of Oakland...
CDCs and Creative Placemaking: Who Should Learn from Whom?
Feb 2013: I'm attending a small conference in Miami. With me are over 150 participants—all folks deeply committed to their communities,...
Community Development and New Understandings of Health and Wellness
In June 2012, I attended the Institute for the Future’s Health Horizons conference Innovating Information Ecosystems: The Next Decade and Beyond as an expert...
Get Big or Get Out!
Earl Lauer Butz, as the U.S. secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, used this slogan to...
Achieving that “Last Mile” Impact
I like chocolate chocolate chip and I like peanut butter and chocolate but I’ll take a stand and say that...
Engagement Before Efficiency
I recently stepped down from my role as the executive director of a community development corporation and I'm in the...
Housing for Families, Not Just Households
It’s time to do away with a mortgage-industrial complex that turns “families” into “households” with income earners, credit scores, and debt ratios.