Homes and Hands
How do community land trusts (CLTs) work? Can they be created in small as well as large communities? Do they require building or rehabbing on a single site or scattered sites? Can various forms...
School and Community: Repairing the Bridge
Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform by Jean Anyon. 217 pp. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997, $18.95
Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems – And How We...
Finding a Comprehensive Vision for Neighborhoods and Families
Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America by Lisbeth B. Schorr. Doubleday: New York 1997. 482 pp.
Since Ronald Reagan was elected President, the infuriating cliche? "We fought a war on poverty, and...
A Brief Triumph for Progressive Housing Policy
Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era by Gail Radford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 273 pp.
Until the Depression, most American opinion leaders believed that the private market, with...
Guides for Tenants, Landlords, and Neighbors
Every Landlord's Legal Guide by Marcia Stewart, Janet Portman, and Ralph Warner. $29.95
Every Tenant's Legal Guide by Janet Portman and Marcia Stewart. $24.95
Neighbor Law by Cora Jordan. $16.95
Tenants' Rights by Myron Muskovitz and Ralph...
Courting Racial Justice
Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia. By David L. Kirp, John P. Dwyer and Larry Rosenthal. Illustrated. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 267 pp.
Suburbs Under Siege. By Charles M....
Book Review (Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods, Reinventing Cities)
The Last Best Hope:
Planners and Organizers Work To Empower Residents
Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods, edited by W. Dennis Keating, Norman Krumholtz, Philip Star. 1996, University Press of Kansas.
Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories, edited by...
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
, 58 minute video produced by Leah Mahan and Mark Lipman, Holding Ground Productions, will be aired on public television beginning in May.
A VHS videocassette and viewers guide...
Habits of the Heart
Habits of the Heart, by Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen,
William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. 1986. Berkeley, California, University of California Press.
Updated with a new introduction 1996.
Habits of the Heart examines one...
Mission-Based Management
Mission-Based Management – Leading Your Not-For-Profit into the 21st Century by Peter C. Brinckerhoff. (Alpine Guild, Inc., P.O. Box 4846-D, Dillon, CO 80435. 800-869-9559. 1995. $29.95)
Even in the best of times, running a nonprofit...
The Future of Public Housing, Lessons from England
Managing the Money Side: Financial Management for Community-Based Housing Organizations
The Institute for Community Economics' newest book on financial management for community-based housing development organizations is like the best software-powerful, easy to use, and inexpensive.
Of...
Organizing the South Bronx
IAF Challenges the South Bronx
Organizing the South Bronx, by Jim Rooney. 1995. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 283 pages. $14.95. (paper)
In November 1994, The New York Times and New York magazine...
Recommended Reading
Deals From Hell: How Creative Nonprofits Pull Off Affordable Multifamily Housing with ONLY 11 Funders.
Recently, the Community Information Exchange conducted a project that examined the methods used by nonprofit developers of multifamily housing to...
Citizen Participation, Neighborhood Planning And Empowerment Of The Poor
The Rebirth of Urban Democracy by Jeffrey M. Berry, Kent E. Portney and Ken Thomson. 1993. Washington, DC The Brookings Institution. 326 pp. Cloth $36.95. Paperback $16.95.
Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of...
Pro-Integrative Housing
The Suburban Racial Dilemma: Housing and Neighborhoods, by W. Dennis Keating, 1994 Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 288 pp $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper
Reviewed by Donald L. DeMarco
All across America, racial segregation in housing is the...
Middle-Class Anger Examined
Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans and the Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity by Kevin Phillips, 307 pp. New York: Random House. 1993.
The 1992 federal elections and the state and city elections in 1993 proved that...
The Housing Affordability Crisis: Progressive Responses
Shelter Burden: Local Politics and Progressive Housing Policy by Edward G. Goetz. 250 pp. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1993. $39.95 (cloth)
Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability by Michael E. Stone. 423 pp. Philadelphia:...