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Organize! A media campaign on the value of affordable housing
Advocates for affordable housing and a high-powered public relations firm make an unlikely team, at first glance. But that’s exactly who teamed up over...
Building Blocks (Block Group Organizing)
Ralph Quinn was ticked off. Things in his Utica, New York neighborhood were getting intolerable. His high school step-daughter was propositioned seven times by...
Making a Living: How the living wage movement prevailed
Since the mid-1990s, 79 cities or counties in America have passed living wage ordinances. The movement’s success has been remarkable, given a legislative climate...
High Stakes for Public Housing: Organizing Public Housing Residents
The Millennial Housing Commission (MHC) report represents stage two in an agenda to give increased decision-making powers to local public housing agencies, and target...
Has Homeownership Been Oversold?
Discussion about homeownership almost always seems to begin with some reference to owning one’s own home being a part of “The American Dream.” Homeownership...
No Progress Without Protest
After decades of overt redlining and racially discriminatory lending practices, financial institutions are once again returning to the nation’s cities. As Paul S. Grogan...
CDCs in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
When community development corporations were created in the 1960s, their biggest challenge was assisting in the revival of neighborhoods that were physically and spiritually...
“It’s Like You’re Walking But Your Feet Ain’t Going Nowhere.”
In Texas, evacuees from Hurricane Katrina wonder if their lives will ever get back to something approaching normal.
The Road to Power
This year, we’ve had to remove our blinders to the notion of “these united states” – a sentiment prescribed by our government since 9/11....
Where Are They Now?
Shelterforce was founded in 1975 in East Orange, N.J., by a collective of tenant advocates and organizers. Where are those collective members now?
Jane Jacobs’ Radical Legacy
Sometimes a book can change history. Books often influence ideas, but only rarely do they catalyze activism.
If It Can Happen in Virginia…
I've been reading Ruth Berta and Amanda Leonard Pohl's book, Building Power, Changing Lives, about Virginia Organizing. It's a...
Jon Kest’s Activism, New York’s Future
Thousands of Bill de Blasio’s grassroots supporters—as well as the small inner circle of advisers who helped catapult him...
In Memoriam: Jon Kest
Jon Kest, director of New York Communities for Change, a founder of the Working Families Party, and former head organizer...
The Rosa Parks of a New Economic Justice Movement?
The protesters challenging the big banks and the super-rich won a dramatic victory in Los Angeles on Thursday, as I describe below. OneWest Bank,...
“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...
In Chicago, a Partial Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis?
This week Chicago Alderman Pat Dowell, at the request of Action Now, the former Illinois chapter of Acorn, which broke away in 2008, and...
Can Progressives Deliver?
In key races around the country, progressive coalitions are mobilizing grassroots campaigns that just might pay off.
It Didn’t Begin With Katrina
We must always remember that New Orleans was suffering from an economic and political disaster long before Hurricane Katrina hit.
