Linda Ocasio
Linda Ocasio was an editor at Shelterforce from 2002 to 2004.
The Home Team
In a new book, Root Shock, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove proposes that displacement is the problem that the 21st Century must resolve. Her definition...
Planning for More than Housing
Barry Meister has heard the rumors, and denies them emphatically: He has no plans to relocate Steel Craft, the small factory he owns in...
More Than a Roof
It’s common for most people to make a distinction between “house” and “home.” One word defines a roof over one’s head, nothing more, nothing...
One City: Newark, NJ
Newark's children are more likely to fail in school and suffer from health problems than children living elsewhere in New Jersey.Photo courtesy of Kerrie...
One City
Visiting a big city for the first time can be overwhelming. Where to look first? And what experience is quintessential, without which you cannot...
Home Girls in the House
Girls participating in a WiCC-sponsored
Summer Youth project making picnic tablesPhoto courtesy of WTHC
Women in Construction at first attracted older women but soon the project...
When CDCs Do “More”
For CDCs to stay alive and relevant they must diversify funding and activities, and keep a running dialogue with their communities, among other things....
Building a Home and a Future
Elsie Robinson once worked as a cashier at a Salvation Army store during the day and as a stocker at the local Wal-Mart in...
The Shrinking Heart of Government
Conservative economists call it starving the beast: cutting taxes to force belt-tightening, drastically reducing public spending and shrinking “big government.” In a recent article,...
Real Life
The latest variation in “reality” TV shows was announced this summer. Take a couple of privileged young women who are more familiar with charity...
Fighting the Fight Again
When Paul Veneski broke into a Brooklyn firehouse and chained himself to a fire truck in May, he was following in his father’s footsteps....
Staying With the Story
Drawing media attention to housing and other community concerns is difficult in the best of times – just ask the members of the Millennial...
What Lies Ahead
Over the past year, we’ve had the opportunity to meet with many of our readers and colleagues – community builders, advocates, researchers and funders,...
Artist Profile: Ricardo Cartagena
Dreaming of Home
Above and below, paintings © 2002
Ricardo Cartagena, from "The Eviction
Chronicles"
Two years ago, the artist Ricardo Cartagena was sharing an apartment...
Shelter as a Human Right
When the Nobel Prize committee awarded Jimmy Carter the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, it recognized the former president’s efforts on behalf of international peace...
Boom – The Sound of Eviction
Boom - The Sound of Eviction (96 minutes, 2002), a documentary directed by Francine Cavanaugh, A. Mark Liiv, and Adams Wood. Individuals $20 donation...
Back to Basics
Times aren’t easy for housing advocates. The HUD budget, like so many other domestic programs, has been treated as expendable in favor of boosting...