What Are Advocates Saying About Johnson-Crapo?
What is the affordable housing world making of the Johnson-Crapo housing finance reform? So far here on Rooflines, Dan Immergluck gave us a good overview of its provisions and cautioned community […]
Who Is a Gentrifier, and What Should They Do?
As people with choices move back into (some) urban areas that were abandoned/systematically disinvested from decades ago, gentrification is an increasingly common topic of debate. (Enough that those working in […]
Casinos are Parasites
It is not news that communities desperate for jobs and economic development often make terrible long-term decisions, welcoming in development and developers that are damaging in all sorts of ways—environmentally, […]
Land Banks Are Not a Silver Bullet
We were very excited to hear that after many years of organizing, Philadelphia succeeded in winning a municipal land bank. Karen Black wrote for us here about some of the […]
Why Don’t We Build It Ourselves?
Humboldt Construction Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago CDC Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation, has been providing local employment and high-quality work for over 30 years. But it hasn’t been […]
You May Not Realize How Poverty Works
We've been having a ongoing conversation here on Rooflines marking the 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty about what poverty and poverty statistics mean, myths and misconceptions about poverty. […]
“Money Must Serve, Not Rule!”
In November 2013, Morgan Stanley launched its Institute for Sustainable Investing and announced that within five years it was aiming to manage $10 billion in client assets targeted to “impact […]
Finally! A Concrete Proposal to Address Gentrification-Driven Displacement
I, and others, have sometimes felt that the fair housing community can be too focused on opening up the suburbs, overlooking the return of city neighborhoods as neighborhoods of opportunity […]
Easing into Investment?
Joe Kriesberg of Mass. Assoc. of CDCs recently took a trip to Cuba with a group of community development colleagues. He's written up his varied observations of that unusual island […]
Boston Squanders Opportunity to Keep Itself Affordable
This, my friends, is exhibit A in why we still need good old-fashioned investigative journalism—and journalists who will not just chase national stories, but sit through and sift through the […]
Educate, Motivate, Organize
An Interview with Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi