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Community Development Field
Shelterforce considers “community development” to be an extremely broad term. But there are still many conversations about the ways in which that broad work happens. Comprehensively or in coalitions of specialized organizations? Locally or regionally? Place or people? While the answers to all of these are usually “both,” there are many conversations to be had about “how.”
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Federal Grant Rule Change Threatens Community Access to Public Funds
A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget would facilitate political interference in federal grant disbursements across all agencies. The deadline for public comment is July 13.
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We Still Have the Power
What do activists, policy makers, advocates, scholars, and citizens of other countries do to surmount the challenges that face us here? What knowledge and wisdom can we import? What can we export?
Fighting for Responsible Corporate Partnerships
As with the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, we need a new mechanism for the next 36 years that forces corporations to anchor themselves in our neighborhoods.
Community Development Is in Everyone’s Interest
One of the main principles of organizing is self-interest. People are motivated to take action by the desire to improve their own lot. Students lobby to increase Pell grants to […]
Mission: Accomplished
For the past five years, I have been involved with a project in Eastern Oregon in a town with a population of 3,310. The town is in a rural area […]
Taking a Sustainable Approach
Over the next 36 years, the biggest issue facing community developers will be energy. Many experts say we have already hit peak oil production and the evidence that climate change […]
Building Grassroots Power and Coalitions in the CDC Movement
I am continually inspired by the potential for building grassroots power and coalitions for affordable housing and community development.
Know Your Rights
A community that is not equal under the law is not going to be equal anywhere else.
Doing More with Less
Our job is not to deliver services, but to empower clients to make as many decisions about their life as they can.
The Just City
Yesterday was the second of three, day-long symposia being held this year by the Ford Foundation to celebrate its 75h anniversary. This one, subtitled “A New Geography of Opportunity,” was […]
“Housing Gets People’s Interest Today”: State of the Nation’s Housing Press Conference
Yesterday, the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard released its 2011 State of the Nation’s Housing report in an event at the Ford Foundation. George McCarthy, director of Ford’s […]
Can’t Offer Housing Counseling Without the Funding
One of the highlights of this year’s National Community Reinvestment Coalition conference was the luncheon on Day 2, which took place in the Hart Senate building after NCRC members broke […]
“The Fight Continues.”
Michael De Los Santos, community organizer and outreach and project coordinator with the Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina talks about working within communities served by his organization, spoke with […]