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In Eugene, Housing Advocates Call for a Tenant Right to Purchase Act
Housing advocates in Eugene, Oregon, are seeking to create a legislative framework that would allow tenants to collectively acquire multifamily buildings when a building comes up for sale.
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Affordable Forever: Community Land Trusts
Communities across the country have taken up the CLT model to confront challenges from gentrification and sprawl to pollution and abandoned housing.
Beyond Gentrification
There is no reason why people who have worked so hard to build lives and improve their neighborhoods should not be able to stay there.
Seattle Neighborhood Planning
At first glance, the Neighborhood Planning Program in Seattle, Washington, sounds like a remarkably progressive idea. Begun in 1995, the program is one of many across the country that have […]
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.
Watchful Stewards: Mutual Housing Associations and Community Land Trusts
The large, foreclosed HUD-subsidized building on Stamford’s West Side had once housed over 60 families, but in 1993 stood vacant, a hulking eyesore with nesting pigeons as its only occupants. […]
Effective Community Development
The criteria used to define an “effective” community development organization may differ markedly from observer to observer. Many organizations gauge their success in largely quantitative terms – the number of […]