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Taking Charge: Public Housing Tenants Organize
The problems affecting the Cooks Bridge complex in Needham, Massachusetts, in 1990 were the kind typically associated with troubled public housing: lack of or...
Shelterforce Roundtable: Housing Justice Today
On March 29th, 1999, Shelterforce convened the leaders of ten national housing and social justice organizations to discuss the accomplishments and challenges of the...
Whatever Happened to the Tenants Movement?
Last June, thousands of New Jersey tenants wrote to Republican Governor Christine Whitman and urged her to include more tenant/consumer voices on a Landlord-Tenant...
Closing the Wage Gap
Minimum wage doesn't buy what it used to. Based upon the federal government's own poverty line, it's not even enough to survive. To close...
Stemming the Red Tide
Greedy bankers, brokers, and investors abused their political power and forced millions of Americans to lose their homes. Now what can we do to solve the crisis?
The ABCs of Organizing
I left a perfectly good job in a curtain factory in Holyoke, Mass., in 1971 to work in a neighborhood organization on the south...
Challenging Failing Schools
In the 1970s, the effective schools research movement demonstrated that urban schools are not automatically doomed to fail. Researchers identified schools serving disadvantaged students...
Struggling in the Crescent City
Grass-roots advocacy groups and community-advocacy organizations are taking the lead in restoring housing in New Orleans.
Katrina: A Political Disaster
The handling of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath underscores the human disaster resulting from the ascendancy of right-wing ideas and corporate domination of the federal government, which extols market forces, individualism and private charity over public responsibility and the common good.
Looking At Once Inward and Outward
A couple weeks ago close to 200 people came together at Twin Oaks, a commune in my home county of Louisa, Virginia, to discuss...
Organizing Today: Ten Reasons to Cheer!
1. There's lots of it going on
In a recent survey, Heather West of Grassroots Leadership of Lorain, OH, found 120 groups directly or somewhat...
A Winning Campaign
Housing advocates in Washington, D.C., marshaled four strategies for achieving inclusionary-zoning policies designed to protect affordability in a rapidly gentrifying city.
New Movements for a New Era
Three decades ago, a group of activists came together to create a social justice movement to organize poor and working-class people around the issues...
Predatory Lending: Redlining in Reverse
The proverbial American dream of owning a home has become an all-too-real nightmare for a growing number of families. Take the case of Florence...
Action In Concert Builds Community
The community development movement has grown tremendously in size and scope over the past few years. Thousands of CDCs now produce a wide range...
The 1996 Campaign Season – How Housing Groups Can Make a...
The 1994 elections are history. Newt is on a tight leash, the Contract on America is losing in the polls, and Clinton and Dole...
The Organizers Active on the Gulf Coast
Organizers working on the Gulf Coast include the following:
ACORN, (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) founded in 1970, has over 175,000 member...
LA Story – The Los Angeles Coalition that Made a $100...
January 2002 was not an auspicious time for launching expensive social initiatives in California’s largest city. Still reeling from September 11, Los Angeles faced...
Shelter Shorts
Senate Takes Aim at Income Targeting
Eager to get started on summer recess, the Senate tabled discussion on the Public Housing Reform and Responsibility Act...
Training Directory
Where do you go when you want to put organizing ideas into practice? Whether you are starting out, branching out, or burning out, the...