Tag: community development
5 (More) Things Dividing the Government and CDCs
I was recently in a room with representatives from government, banks, private developers, and CDCs for a conversation about...
Is Community Development Failing or Succeeding?
Massive change tends to lead to massive introspection. And changed circumstances tend to lead to a need for changed tools.
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The Past, Present, and Future of Community Development
The changing face of achieving equity in health, education, and housing in the United States.
What Mumbai’s Slums Do Right, And Why We Should Emulate Them
Sometimes to understand our own cities and community development practices it is helpful to understand a radically different setting. In the slums of Mumbai...
Growing a Stronger Nonprofit Housing Sector
High-capacity nonprofit housing enterprises that can achieve efficiencies of scale have an important role to play in addressing the affordable housing crisis and policy makers should help them do so.
Building Community Note by Note
As I listened to a fine bluegrass band play in Courthouse Square in Virginia the other night, I was...
CAPACD 2013: ‘Lei’-ing the Groundwork of Future Reform
Aloha!
No, I did not just return from a tropical Hawaiian vacation. Rather, the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD) conference, where...
The ‘Art’ of Public Planning
Café tables? Yes. Mimes? Sure. Palm trees? Oooh yeah.I checked off boxes next to the features I like in...
NoMi? NoBe? No Go
A few years ago, we had a movement of people who tried to rebrand our Twin Cities community as...
3 Things Needed to Improve Transit-Oriented Development
Affordable and convenient transit is important to helping people access the employment, education and critical services required for physical and...
Resilience, Community Development, and the Problem with Charging Interest
“'Resilience' made #6 on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Top 10 list of buzzwords for 2012 because it is...
The New Age of Code Enforcement
A recent post in Rooflines by Alan Mallach entitled “5 Things Cities and CDCs Don’t Get About Code Enforcement”...
The Affordable Care Act: Implications for Community Development
Even if you have not tuned out of the long-running debate about the future of health care in the United States, you can be...
Much Ado About Clean Air, But How About Our Clean Water?
The President made a big to-do about climate change in his State of the Union speech the other day, and...
CDCs and Creative Placemaking: Who Should Learn from Whom?
Feb 2013: I'm attending a small conference in Miami. With me are over 150 participants—all folks deeply committed to their communities,...
Precarious Values and Permeable Edges in Community Development
It has been said there are only two lasting bequests we can leave our children. One is roots. The...
Report Back: NY Grantmakers in the Arts “Creative Placemaking” Panel
Your Man About Town’s middle name is Moderation, Dear Reader; and although it is a somewhat awkward locution when making...
Meeting the Mission: A Fresh Set of Eyes
The National Housing Institute (publisher of Shelterforce) describes itself as “dedicated to fostering decent affordable housing and a vibrant community...
What Works–and What Doesn’t–in Community Development
“Let’s invest in what works,” is a common and recurring slogan that has gained currency in recent years and why...
The Art$, Part III: Some Quick Fixes
In my earlier posts on this subject, dear reader, I first endeavored to put a finer point on the more...