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Uncertain Future in the Absence of Planning 21 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
“Business moves away. So do the best young people. The population ages. The city becomes a backwater.” – Richard Longworth, “City on the Brink,” Chicago Tribune, 1981 So goes the first extensive quot...
Community Land Trusts Across the Pond 13 Aug 2013 | 02:16 am
Community land trusts (CLTs) in England were described as a “largely theoretical model” by a government report in 2006. And yet, the CLT sector has already moved through a period of experimentation in...
Community Land Trusts Across the Pond 13 Aug 2013 | 02:16 am
Community land trusts (CLTs) in England were described as a “largely theoretical model” by a government report in 2006. And yet, the CLT sector has already moved through a period of experimentation in...
The Answer 18 Jul 2013 | 04:24 am
A: No. This perennial fear of neighbors has been the subject of repeated academic study by a wide range of research teams under a wide range of conditions, and the consensus is overwhelmingly that wel...
Living in the Buffer 17 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Boyle Heights is a predominantly Latino neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles, presenting organizers with similar challenges as other older, minority and low-income communities—meeting the need fo...
Many Goals, One Field 17 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
What is a CDC? Many a meeting among those in the field has descended into argument about what is inside and outside the line. It was inevitable that in designing a focus issue on the “CDC model” that ...
Let’s Hear From the Field 17 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
“Let’s invest in what works” is a common and recurring slogan that has gained currency in recent years. And why shouldn’t it? Who is going to advocate that we invest in what’s broken? So I was not sur...
Industry News 17 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
People Dave Beckwith, executive director of the Needmor Fund, has retired. Before joining Needmor in 2003, Beckwith was a community organizer for over 30 years, nearly half of them with the Center fo...
What Is Community Development? 17 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
What’s a CDC? Of our respondents, 63 percent identified as being from a CDC, 24 percent did not, and 13 percent “maybe” did. But what do they understand a CDC to be? The top three things that define...
What Is Community Development? 17 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
What’s a CDC? Of our respondents, 63 percent identified as being from a CDC, 24 percent did not, and 13 percent “maybe” did. But what do they understand a CDC to be? The top three things that define...
