Miriam Axel-Lute
Miriam Axel-Lute is CEO/editor-in-chief of Shelterforce. She lives in Albany, New York, and is a proud small-city aficionado.
Town & Gown: Making Research Serve Communities’ Needs
Academics often get a bad reputation for studying poor communities without involving them in study design. But some researchers are doing it differently.
Cardell Cooper
On August 11, 1999, HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development and former mayor of East Orange, New Jersey, Cardell Cooper returned home...
Business Consultants for Everyone
Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies, Ernesto Sirolli. New Society Publishers, 1999. 151 pp. Cloth: $14.95. ...
Funding the Resistance
It doesn’t take a great leap of the imagination to deduce that a foundation called simply “Resist” might be a little different than your...
Grantmaking Power to the People
Foundations that fund grassroots organizing are a rare breed, perhaps because organizing challenges a power structure that includes foundations themselves. A new foundation in...
A Meeting of Movements
In New York City the mayor tries to cast destruction of community gardens as a gain for housing advocates. Along the west coast, on-going...
Livable Communities: A Shared Goal
On the face of it, the intersections between the sustainability movement and the community development movement are not too hard to identify. We know...
Divide and Conquer
In its one and a half years, the New York City Coalition for the Preservation of Gardens (known as the Garden Coalition) has worked...
In Their Own Hands: Colonias Organize
"Complex but doable," as one organizer put it, is an apt description of the job facing activists in the colonias, poverty-ridden communities along the...
Battle Over 13th Street: Squatter Evictions on the Lower East Side
Many of the 13th Street residents have been there for over 10 years, putting in long hours and hard work to make the buildings habitable.