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Expanding the Mission: The Community Groups Serving Schools
Some community development organizations have added education to their traditional focus on housing and economic development. By partnering with local school districts, they’re looking for ways to support families and children in their neighborhoods. How’s it working?
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Rethinking the Rescue
This time of economic uncertainty presents an opportunity for the community development movement to reinvent itself.
Asset-Building Comes of Age
From IDAs to comprehensive community wealth building, the number of strategies to increase personal and collective assets is growing.
The Power of a Community-Based Development Coalition
Building sustainable coalitions is an important element to strengthening community-based development organizations (CBDOs) and increasing their influence on local and state policies. To accomplish that, coalitions benefit from favorable political […]
Going the Other Way: Adding Organizing to Development
Some groups move in the opposite direction from Nobel Neighbors, starting out with a development focus and adding in organizing for the same reasons Nobel is adding development – visibility, […]
So You Want to Be a Developer: Community Organizing Groups Consider Housing Development
The second week of October 2001 was a busy one for Nobel Neighbors, a community organizing group in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood. It organized 30 residents to attend a […]
Target: Problem Properties
Photo Courtesy of HANDS Inc. For 12 years the building at 151 Chapman Street (above) stood vacant on a prominent corner, a menacing landmark that attracted squatters and generated no […]
Shifting Fortunes: Trends in Housing Policy and Programs
In exchange for the abandonment of meaningful levels of housing assistance—whether project- or tenant-based—we are paying a high price in homelessness and severe cost burdens.