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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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Let’s Talk About CDCs…
…that is if we could. Awareness of community development, both within the larger progressive movement and in the country as a whole, is tragically limited. This is due in part […]
Salvaging Success from Failure
While the case of Chicago’s El Mercado marketplace project illustrates the kinds of false assuptions that get community development organizations into trouble, it can point the way toward sound decision-making
A Recipe for Failure
In a large mixing bowl, stir in these ingredients: 1 cup Good Idea 3 cups Vision 2 tbl Great Site 16 oz Capital 2 pints Community Support When fully blended, […]
The Mistakes Project
This article is one of a series of papers written as part of the “Mistakes, Learning, and Adaptation” Project. In November of 2007, a group of authors and practitioners met […]
Diverse Workplaces Work, Why Not Neighborhoods?
To continue the collective efficacy discussion, I want to throw the work of Professor Scott Page, author of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools […]
Putnam’s “E Pluribus Unum”: Part of the Story
A few weeks ago I had the chance to spend a weekend on a tiny island in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay that has just enough room for 700 year-round residents. Maybe […]
“Stop Killing People” in Chicago
It’s a national scandal that we’re failing to protect our children.
Rooflines: Make It Better
Welcome to Rooflines, the new group blog of the National Housing Institute. At the risk of going all biblical on you, Rooflines’ launch is one of many signs that Americans […]
Vision 20/20
Springfield’s Vision 20/20 program was a community-based planning process that involved residents in decision-making processes
MacArthur Foundation Earmarks $25 Million for Housing Research
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation plans to invest $25 million over the next five years in research into the causes, effects and solutions to the nation’s affordable-housing […]
Inclusionary Zoning: National Context and Impact
Inclusionary zoning (IZ) requires that a percentage of housing units in new residential developments be rented or sold for prices that are affordable to low- and moderate-income households. In exchange […]
Cuffing the Hands that Feed Them
It’s not easy to rattle Louise Arbour, the Canadian jurist who was the chief prosecutor for tribunals on the genocide in Rwanda and human-rights abuses in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. […]