Archives

Pulling Together to Fight for Jobs

Grassroots community organizations across the country often win significant local change for their constituents. But particularly around welfare reform issues, many of these campaigns...

Housing and Welfare Reform

Although welfare and housing assistance systems are designed and administered separately from each other, their beneficiaries overlap to a substantial degree. Especially in the...

Congressman Henry Gonzalez

One of Congress's leading advocates for the poor and for an open government prepares to leave after 18 terms. It's rare for U.S. Representative Henry...

Esperanza Community Housing Corporation:

Building Hope with the Community Growing from a neighborhood effort to keep six single-family homes from being demolished to make way for a garment...

Learning from Victory

Learning from Victory In this issue, we offer two articles exploring the challenges of welfare reform from the perspective of community organizers and housing activists. We've...

Shelter Shorts

From Welfare to Unemployment Challenging the theories that tougher welfare restrictions impel people to find jobs and that the recent decline in welfare rolls indicates...

Leveling the Playing Field

In 1997, a coalition of churches, environmental groups, developers, and government officials organized a campaign to help clean up Minnesota's 4,000 acres of brownfields,...

Using Letters Effectively

Like most Americans, you probably buy or give by mail occasionally. You order from catalogues, you respond to credit card promotions, and once in...

Finding a Comprehensive Vision for Neighborhoods and Families

Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America by Lisbeth B. Schorr. Doubleday: New York 1997. 482 pp. Since Ronald Reagan was elected President,...

The Seven Lessons of HMDA

$393 billion. That's the amount banks have committed to lend in low and moderate income communities nationwide since the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) went...

Washington News and Views

Public Housing Talks Continue Behind Closed Doors As of early April, the principal sponsors of legislation to deregulate public housing and to merge the Section...