Issue #98

Although welfare and housing assistance systems are designed and administered separately from each other, their beneficiaries overlap to a substantial degree. Especially in the wake of welfare reform, this intersection […]

One of Congress’s leading advocates for the poor and for an open government prepares to leave after 18 terms. It’s rare for U.S. Representative Henry Gonzalez to not follow through […]

Building Hope with the Community Growing from a neighborhood effort to keep six single-family homes from being demolished to make way for a garment factory, the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation […]

Learning from Victory In this issue, we offer two articles exploring the challenges of welfare reform from the perspective of community organizers and housing activists. We’ve all heard of the […]

From Welfare to Unemployment Challenging the theories that tougher welfare restrictions impel people to find jobs and that the recent decline in welfare rolls indicates just that, a survey of […]

In 1997, a coalition of churches, environmental groups, developers, and government officials organized a campaign to help clean up Minnesota’s 4,000 acres of brownfields, the abandoned and polluted industrial land […]

Like most Americans, you probably buy or give by mail occasionally. You order from catalogues, you respond to credit card promotions, and once in a while you open mail appeals […]

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 […]

$393 billion. That’s the amount banks have committed to lend in low and moderate income communities nationwide since the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) went into effect 20 years ago. By […]

Public Housing Talks Continue Behind Closed Doors As of early April, the principal sponsors of legislation to deregulate public housing and to merge the Section 8 voucher and certificate programs […]