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…
W12-1: Stabilization and regeneration of neighborhood business districts (NBDs) creates positive conditions for neighborhood life, including improved access to…
W11-1: Suburban gentrification is most visible through capital reinvestment in the built environment. In this paper, I examine one type of reinvestment—the incremental,…
W10-10: In the 1990s, Edward and Polly Dickson, life-long and prominent residents of Massachusetts’ most affluent town, decided to ensure that people of diverse incomes…
MF10-9: The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is in need of a major overhaul. Much about the financial services industry has changed and much has been learned about the…
W10-4: In 1955, Daniel Sweeney, the owner of a large farm in the old New England town of Acton, Massachusetts, decided to abandon his unprofitable dairy and market farm…
W10-1: The negative impacts of concentrated foreclosures have been destabilizing communities across the country. Community development corporations (CDCs) and other…
W09-6: The goal of this paper is to identify a wide variety of systematic "barriers" that in the aggregate impact a displaced person’s chances of ever returning to a…
There are many causes to the collapse of the housing market and the recent financial turmoil, but the contribution of the CRA appears marginal. While banks did engage in…
RR07-11: The paper then reviews local housing policy in three case-study cities in states with different approaches to housing and land use policy: California,…
