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Portland Wisdom Spreads, If Slowly
It took a while, but Denver has become the second city in the country to pass an ordinance aimed at...
Arts Build Community
CDCs now recognize that art and cultural activities can be useful tools toward building a community's identity, meaning, and spirit. But bank regulators have not yet reached a sufficient level of comfort with this new strategy.
Predatory Lending: Subprime Lenders trick homeowners into expensive loans.
Laid off after 29 years of working for a local telephone company in North Carolina, "Roberta Green" was struggling. Although she had a part-time...
Housing the Poor and Vulnerable Elderly
Owners and administrators of government-subsidized rental housing are acutely aware of their older tenants' changing profile. More than ever, seniors in today's affordable housing...
New Codes for Old Buildings
Rehabilitating old buildings in New Jersey used to be uncertain business. Depending on how much you spent compared to the building's value, you had...
New Challenges for Community Builders
As we go to press, the federal budget, including the HUD budget for fiscal year 2001, has just been released. The HUD budget, while...
Shelter Shorts
Housing Crisis Hurts Student AchievementAffordable housing advocates have long argued that effects of the affordable housing crisis extend well beyond low-income people's day-to-day struggle...
Raising Money for Progressive Arts and Culture Organizations
Discussions about the difficulty of raising money for certain issues are generally started by people who feel sorry for themselves. Nevertheless, progressive arts and...
Tenant Organizing Wins One-for-One Replacement
In 1996, a small group of highly organized residents of North Beach public housing in San Francisco began to raise questions about the fate...
Civil Society and Democracy at Crossroads
A Place for Us: How To Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong by Benjamin Barber. Hill and Wang, 1998. 172 pp.
Between the two great...
Changing Rules of Regional Development?
Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Urban America, by David Rusk. Brookings Institution Press, 1999. 384 pp.
David Rusk's book, Inside Game/Outside Game, is a...
Housing and Community Development Campaign 2000
Decent affordable housing in healthy communities for all Americans is just as essential for our nation's social and economic well-being as are affordable health...
HUD Budget Request
President Clinton's fiscal year 2001 (FY01) budget request submitted to Congress February 7 seeks increases for HUD programs in general. In a recent Memo...