Tag: Communities
Employment as Crime Prevention
With the hottest, often most violent, month of summer still to come, Chicago has logged record numbers of killings of public school students this...
A Messy Food Fight
Everyone’s a little tense about groceries lately — eggs up to an average of $2.18 a dozen from $1.45 in 2006, whole milk around...
Bluegrass, Rodeos, and Other Signs of a Living Community
This weekend the small community where I live had its annual heritage fair. This is when people get together to celebrate the traditional arts...
Something Completely Different…
For those looking for some light summer entertainment, try You Don’t Mess With The Zohan. Adam Sandler and crew take on the unlikely tale...
Taking Blame for the Floods
We stood at the end of a road leading into the waters of the Mississippi River, which had burst through a levee in Gulfport,...
Iowa: The Midwest Katrina?
“It looks like Katrina,” said a man stuck in traffic, his bare foot hanging out his car window, on the jammed freeway through Cedar...
Make Your Streets Livable!
An exciting new resource is available to community developers who want to make the streets in their neighborhoods more inviting to people on foot,...
Making Fair Housing a Reality
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is having its National Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., from June 8 to 11. This conference will shed...
Putnam’s “E Pluribus Unum”: Part of the Story
A few weeks ago I had the chance to spend a weekend on a tiny island in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay that has just enough...
Putting Our Heads Together vs. Knocking Heads
Read Rob McKay and Ori Brafman’s recent post at Huffington Post and you’re likely to feel your pulse race over the transformative possibilities of...
Thrown into the Mix
“Mixed income” is the hot phrase in housing developments and neighborhoods across the country these days.
It is the bedrock of the Hope VI plan...
Collective Efficacy: The Key to Community Change?
Nandinee Kutty, who, with James Carr, is co-editor of the newly released book Segregation: The Rising Costs For America, comments on my previous post...
“Stop Killing People” in Chicago
It’s a national scandal that we’re failing to protect our children.
Comprehensive Community Initiatives
The report examines how community groups work together toward the common purpose of changing the way their local systems (housing, schools, welfare) work and the way community groups work within those systems.
Will Columbia Take Manhattanville?
Balancing an Ivy League university's expansion plan with a Harlem neighborhood's needs is a tricky business, especially when eminent domain is in the mix.
Taming Eminent Domain
We can harness backlash against eminent domain abuses in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Kelo decision to bring about genuine community empowerment in the redevelopment process.
Running on Empty
For decades, community developers have relied on the power of markets to bring neighborhoods back, but they can't build their way out of the foreclosure mess.
Staking On Community
As analysts probe the causes of the subprime foreclosure debacle, a couple of things seem clear about the solutions. First, few people will be...
Take and Give
Turning eminent domain into a tool for creating vital communities hinges on crafting a delicate balance between all who stand to benefit -- or lose out -- from the transformation of a neighborhood.
Getting it Done
An AmeriCorps program that brings together talented young people and community-development groups seeking greater capacity is making a difference in Indianapolis.