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EZ’er Said Than Done
The Empowerment Zone Initiative is becoming a model program for community revitalization. Will these programs lead to real community empowerment or will they become just a collection of tax incentives for businesses? The initiative's experience to date offers clues and warnings.
Learning the Ropes
At first, John Taylor, education coordinator for Chicago Commons Employment Training Center, had doubts about the idea of partnering with a local bank for...
Rekindling Hope in the American Dream
The East Baltimore neighborhood where Bette Ramsey lived with her adult daughter and 10-year-old grandson was a war zone, complete with drug dealers, gunfire,...
George Knight
After nearly 25 years with Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NRC), and ten years as its executive director, George Knight is leaving NRC this September. Knight...
Homeowners, and Tenants Too
Coachella Valley's 200 mobile home parks provide the only available housing for many agricultural workers in Riverside County, California. But living in the parks,...
Empowerment – From Rhetoric to Reality?
At its outset, the community development field was about resident empowerment. From the War on Poverty to the forging of the community development corporation...
Shelter Shorts
You can lead housing to the candidates, but...On June 24th, attempting to draw Vice-President Al Gore's attention to housing issues, the Industrial Areas Foundation...
Money Doesn’t Always Win
"You know, LeRoy, money always wins."
At those words, LeRoy Lemos sprang into action. Lemos, a community activist and director of the PODER Project in...
Finding Ways to Cover Administrative Costs
This fall, at a philanthropy conference at the White House, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said emphatically that if the philanthropic sector was serious...
Community Development Legislative News
New Bill to Establish National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) introduced S. 2997, the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act...
Neighborhood Principles For Smart Growth
Across the country, Americans have become frustrated with the way their communities are growing. People are troubled by increasing gridlock, vanishing farmland and open...
Urban Decline and the Global Economy
Mollie's Job : A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line, by William M. Adler, Scribner, May 2000. 352pp. $27.50.
To understand...
Remembering a Housing Hero
Houser: The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer by H. Peter Oberlander and Eva Newbrun. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1999. 320 pp....