W14-12: Gentrification has become the sticking point for many urban revitalization efforts – the specter which hangs over the efforts of community organizations, the…
W14-9: Increasingly recognizing that stable and affordable housing is a necessary but not sufficient condition to lift families out of poverty, organizations in the…
Keynote Address for “What Works in Community Investing: A Community Development Summit”Delivered November 8, 2013Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Designby…
Eric Belsky, Nicholas DuBroff, Daniel McCue, Christina Harris, Shelagh McCartney, Jennifer Molinsky
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December 31, 2013
Tackling urban poverty and attending to its spatial manifestations is vitally important to national economic and social development. From a low of an estimated 28 percent of…
HBTL-05: This paper discusses links among three familiar developments in US housing markets over the last quarter century: ongoing “sprawl” of housing units away from…
W13-4: This paper is part of a larger project that situates American housing within the ecologically-oriented 1970s, when energy independence and environmental…
W13-2: Investing in single-family homes is not a new business. However, the magnitude of homes flowing through foreclosure and into investor ownership since 2007 in many…
W12-6: For more than a century, American reformers have struggled to remedy the problems of poverty in the places where low-income people live. At first, these…
W12-7: The field of community development is at an inflection point, poised to achieve scale, impact, and integration of the many lessons learned over the past…
W12-3: Slum development models and strategies tend to assume a needs-based outlook, focusing on what specific slums lack. In this paper, the author argues instead for an…