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Manufactured-home communities, long vulnerable to displacement at the whim of park owners, are working with nonprofit partners to increase resident ownership of the land.

When luxury condo developers started buying up properties on W Street in D.C., the low-income tenants who already lived there decided to get in the game.

The impact of segregation endures in a Mississippi coast town, where an African-American community is working to protect its environment, housing and history.

Financial help from business owners, matched by public dollars, enables hundreds of people to live close to their jobs in Chicago. The idea is catching on.

Hope Community Inc. organized residents to discuss and plan the future of a local park, allowing them to control the change in their neighborhood.

Is it good for the community? The neighborhood? The block? These are the questions that drive decisions in one city’s housing court.

The rise and fall of the Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations illustrates the challenges facing advocacy organizations when they shift to service delivery.

Environmental justice and tenant advocates aren’t waiting for legislators to write tougher policies to protect people from lead paint, mold and other hazards in their homes. They are getting together to document these problems – and winning

The Thompson v. HUD court ruling found that the department was liable in the concentration of poor minorities in certain areas of Baltimore. What steps can HUD take to remedy the situation and desegregate the country’s public housing?

Cities and neighborhoods in decline should consider adopting strategies that will change their housing markets for the better, and at the same time preserve affordability.

In weak market cities where cynicism and dysfunction have become the norm, it takes a different kind of organizing to bring people together to demand change.

How one innovative economic development program is challenging stereotypes, and providing job training and housing rehab along the way.

The president of the National Housing Institute looks at how community development is portrayed on the silver screen, and how it affects the work of urban planners.

While CDCs are focused on trying to revitalize neighborhoods, what makes them tick behind the scenes?

A recent attack from the Right prompts an appreciation of the venerable grassroots organization, ACORN.

National momentum can't substitute for hard organizing work at the local level, but sometimes it can set the stage -- or provide a needed burst of energy.

What happens when an oppressed community moves into a neighborhood where another oppressed community lives – and starts gentrifying it?

Kenneth Reardon recounts the decade-long successful effort to revitalize the once-devestated East St. Louis community.

A longtime activist assesses the Millennial Housing Commission report's questionable assumptions and remedies, and the real solutions that were ignored.

Despite active affordable housing efforts, Cambridge suffers after rent control ends.