Tag: Neighborhood Change

Shifting blame from people to ZIP codes is not enough to create healthy communities. Here’s how to do better.

The arts have a long history of highlighting social issues and creating public conversation that results in measurable change. As an arts administrator with...

The North Pole opens discussion between residents of gentrifying neighborhoods and elevates the personal stories and memories of those being displaced.

An organization embarks on a community-driven design process to transform two vacant row homes into a site for residents, artists, and law enforcement to collaborate on new public safety strategies rooted in care rather than control.

A discussion about honoring the history of a place while actively working to encourage its growth and foster positive change.

It is often said that you get what you pay for. Clearly, too little is being paid to create positive change in America’s most vulnerable places.

Absent a fundamentally new approach to redevelopment planning that places housing affordability at the center of the process, large-scale sustainable development projects are likely to become engines of what has been termed “environmental gentrification.”

Located in the southeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., Parkchester Apartments was not unlike some other affordable housing developments in the city. Property owners had come and gone without making adequate investments in the nine-building complex, and residents had all but given up when its tenant association voted to bring in its current owner, The NHP Foundation (NHPF), in 2015. Within months, residents began to see signs of improvement. Top on the list of changes was the realignment of Parkchester’s environmental footprint.

About a year ago I wrote a post about Paul Krugman and whether building luxury housing could mitigate the...

As both Joe Cortright of the City Observatory and I have written, Millennials—people who have reached adulthood since the beginning of the millennium—and...

A well informed community organizing effort with a targeted purpose should be the first line of defense in protecting opportunities for wealth building and access to opportunities for upward mobility in working class communities as they experience inevitable changes.

What is the relationship between charter schools and neighborhoods—and what could it be?

Throughout Chinatown Community Development Center’s 39-year history in San Francisco, we have grown to encompass multiple strategies in our quest for comprehensive community development....

In Miriam Axel-Lute’s recent post here, “Place Matters But Place Changes,” she references “a study done by Governing magazine that found a 20 percent...

For the past two years, the Crown Heights Tenant Union of Brooklyn has turned collective bargaining strategies on landlords—and policymakers.

Can a neighborhood be immune to gentrification? If so, can local governments and community organizations work together to build up that kind of immunity...

Mid-July marked the 20th anniversary of more than 700 Chicagoans dying in a heat wave. When the temperature peaked at 106 degrees on July...

My city of Albany, N.Y., is currently going through a rezoning process. Mostly this entails cleaning up a fragmented,...

There is a decrepit old bridge extending from 11th Street in southeast Washington, D.C. and across the Anacostia River...

Conventional wisdom says that artists and gay people are tend to be pioneers in distressed neighborhoods, signs that change is...