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HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development
Andrew Cuomo, HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, served as founder and president of H.E.L.P., the nation's largest provider of transitional housing...
Energy and Low-Income Housing: Part I
Energy Policy Hurts The Poor
Energy costs are one major, if not the major, operating cost to many low-income households. More than one million...
Energy and Low-Income Housing: Part II
In the past, members of the community development movement have had little to do with anything that smacks of environmentalism. Conversely, members of the...
Effective Community Development
Vision and capacity have become virtual buzzwords in the nonprofit field. What do they really mean to a community development organization? What characterizes an...
Getting the Most From Technical Assistance
Technical assistance provides more than a set of skills. It provides a framework upon which community development organizations can analyze their needs, assess their...
Shelter Shorts
California tenants save rent control with major grassroots effort
In a major, hard-won victory for tenants, the Senate Judiciary Committee defeated AB 1320 (Costa), the...
Citizen Participation, Neighborhood Planning And Empowerment Of The Poor
The Rebirth of Urban Democracy by Jeffrey M. Berry, Kent E. Portney and Ken Thomson. 1993. Washington, DC The Brookings Institution. 326 pp. Cloth...
Washington News and Views
From the Center for Community Change
HUD Announces Field Hearings On Discrimination In Property Insurance
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing a...