Neighborhood Change

If Amazon is going to be a good neighbor, it must do the following, at the very least, to mitigate against impediments to fair housing.

The path to winning a pro-equity, pro-growth majority involves more (not less) investment in fighting displacement.

Middle neighborhoods are places where home prices are generally affordable to the average household. But, these neighborhoods are often on the edge between growth and decline.

In some communities, diverse economic networks have been and remain critical to the ability of community members to survive and thrive.

Vacant properties are a serious problem in two kinds of neighborhoods. To address them, we need to know which kind we’re looking at.

Baltimore’s Vacants to Value program sparked revitalization block by block with a few key legal powers and partnerships.

The fight against vacancy in Youngstown, Ohio, shows us that we shouldn’t rely on a single strategy—everything is needed at once.

Vacant land activities can be low cost and high impact; the price of failure is not steep, but the return on investment can be high.

The number of land banks grew dramatically in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. So has our understanding of how to successfully fund them.

A Philadelphia program is cleaning up abandoned lots, helping formerly incarcerated residents get jobs, and improving the overall health and well-being of neighborhoods.

When a vacant lot in Oakland was close to becoming the home of a 24-story, market-rate development, local activists worked together to prevent it from happening.

For-profit housing cannot meet most renters’ needs, and that’s by design. So when you talk about market-rate construction and displacement, use the following literature review as reference.