Tag: community development
Who Is It For?
A Washington, D.C. nonprofit undertakes a redevelopment project and tackles the issue of cultural displacement.
In Memoriam: Marva Smith Battle-Bey
Marva Smith Battle-Bey, director of the Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation in Los Angeles, which she founded in 1979,...
Harvard Planners Talk Race, Design, and St. Louis
In our recent interview with long-time urban planner and racial equity advocate Chester Hartman, he told us he thought...
Can We Build a Movement for Structural Economic Change? We Must
This July, the New Economy Coalition (NEC), a coalition of over 140 organizations from across North America, will convene in Buffalo for its biennial...
Why Are Community Development Lenders Financing Charter Schools?
The choice to support privately-operated, publicly-funded schools puts these lenders at odds with many of their usual political allies and constituencies. So what’s the motivation?
Health Care Confronts Challenge to Shift from “Volume to Value”
Health care, as we all know, is a big business. U.S. hospitals alone have $782 billion in total annual expenditures, which is roughly five...
FHFA’s Proposed Duty to Serve Rule – New Opportunities for Community...
Community housing and community development advocates could see new opportunities for financing from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2016 and beyond under a...
Fair Housing and Community Developers Can Work Together
Two organizations in New Jersey show that with a good working relationship, a balanced approach to healthy communities and housing choice for all can be more than pretty words.
Tackling Uncomfortable Issues, With Enthusiasm
A national organization enthusiastically embraces the varied backgrounds and experiences of attendees at its convention, the theme of which was “Moving Forward, Rising Together.”
The Revitalization Trap
Place-based initiatives won’t address the kinds of injustice and poverty that community development was formed to fight.
With responses by Brentin Mock and Miriam Axel-Lute.
Community Development and Faith
Pope Francis begins his visit to the United States today with stops in Washington D.C., New York City, and...
Skipping “Placed-Based” Work Leaves Cities Vulnerable to Climate Change
I remember it clearly. “The Myth of Community Development,” Nicholas Lemann’s 1994 New York Times Magazine article, cracked the...
Neighborhood Investment Doesn’t Have to Mean Displacement
The word “gentrification” is a loaded one and has a host of negative implications for people in the housing...
Employee Ownership: A Solution that Preserves Retiring Owners’ Businesses
Reflecting growing enthusiasm for worker co-ops, the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy—held last month in Worcester, Massachusetts—attracted a record 300-plus participants.
One item on the...
A Historic Partnership in Creative Placemaking
NACEDA recently announced our selection as a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town award recipient. The award will...
Braiding Resources, Place, and Opportunity
Creating economic opportunity for people who live in distressed communities is by necessity place-based, or if you prefer, place-conscious,...
Detroit Future City’s Plan for Revitalization Pushes Job Creation
For supporters and enthusiasts of Detroit’s revitalization, the city is poised to be a “model for the future;” but...
Community Development of Tomorrow
Community development is when people join together to improve conditions and create change at the community level. It can...
Seeking Solidarity Between Place-Based and Economic Justice Work
Last week, Brentin Mock over at CityLab had an incisive response to Peter Dreier’s Shelterforce article, The Revitalization Trap....
The Revitalization Trap
The community development movement began in the 1960s as part of a crusade against social injustice,...