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Can D.C.’s Bridge Park Work for Everyone?
There is a decrepit old bridge extending from 11th Street in southeast Washington, D.C. and across the Anacostia River...
Common Sense Is Community Development’s Most Powerful Ally
The title of this post proved itself to be true for us in Duluth, when local organizations got together to address the growing need...
What Have We Learned a Decade after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes?
As the housing community reflects in August on the tenth anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, what are the...
Community Groups’ Role Vanishes Under New Federal Workforce Legislation
On July 22, 2014, after it passed by wide bipartisan margins earlier in the year, the Workforce Innovation and...
Three Ways Your City Can Prosper by Embracing Equity
. Two years ago, New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio captivated voters with his “tale of two cities” narrative summarizing...
Neighborhood Investment Doesn’t Have to Mean Displacement
The word “gentrification” is a loaded one and has a host of negative implications for people in the housing...
Leveling the Information Playing Field Between Advocates and Developers
Inclusionary housing has been around for decades. It encompasses a range of policies that call on developers to contribute...
Social Enterprise Movement Faces Growth and New Challenges
In September, I attended the Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) annual conference in Denver, Colorado. At the closing session, Tamra Ryan voiced a key conference...
Is Rags to Riches the Right Measure?
Comparative income quintiles don’t tell us very much about the material conditions of people’s lives. When someone rises into the top fifth, someone else falls into the bottom fifth.
Four Lessons Learned from Collaboration
We’ve seen a renewed interest in non-profit collaboration (see articles in Shelterforce here, here, and here) but effective and successful collaboration takes more than...
Place Matters, But Place Changes
“Place matters, but place changes,” University of Southern California professor Manuel Pastor observed at the opening plenary at PolicyLink’s 5th Equity Summit, held this...
The New Rent Control Wars
On November 4, a near riot broke out in the usually quiet city of Alameda, Ca. The reason? A...
Health Care Confronts Challenge to Shift from “Volume to Value”
Health care, as we all know, is a big business. U.S. hospitals alone have $782 billion in total annual expenditures, which is roughly five...
When Work Creates Insecurity
Many of us think that any employment, even part time, provides a measure of security. This is not the case for the millions of...
Flint: Tainted Choices, Tainted Water
Like the water itself, the situation in Flint, Mich., should be crystal clear: elected and appointed officials, at the state and federal levels, have done...
Attitudes Toward Exploited Cities Helped Poison Flint
Flint’s water crisis started long before corrosive river water starting running through its pipes. Though there’s no question that those who signed off on...
Expand Upon Successes and Seize New Opportunities
George W. Bush is often described as a man who believes in limited government, personal responsibility, strong families and local initiative. It’s too early...