Neighborhood Revitalization Stabilization

Community Involvement Influenced by Anarchy

This Big City team looks at "small places of anarchy" in Toyko that has taken root in DIY Gardening, Collaborative Mental Mapping and FIXing the Neighborhood.

September 7, 2011 - This Big City

Community-Supported Businesses on the Rise

Stacy Mitchell reports on the growing trend of micro-financing, where small business people turn to the local community to get the funding they need to open restaurants or small shops.

August 31, 2010 - Yes! Magazine

Opportunities (and Mindfulness) of the Emerging HUD Blueprint

By any measure, the HUD that is now emerging from the shadows of eight years of amateur hour, is focused on the right things: markets, coherent roles for public and private sector alike, and energy efficiency. Indeed the emphasis on "urbanism" and "regionalism" illustrates that this administration "gets it".

May 18, 2009 - Charles Buki

Cities Struggling to Work With Stabilization Funds

Congress has approved a $4 billion federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program, but as the funding trickles down to cities, many find the money too tight to solve many of their problems.

December 7, 2008 - The Wall Street Journal

Push Back in the Community Development Field

Locality: "We have distressed neighborhoods" Conventional Thinking: "We have housing dollars" Locality: "But we have distressed neighborhoods" Conventional Thinking: "But we have housing dollars" Locality: "So?" Conventional Thinking: "You can run organizations with these dollars and keep at it forever" Locality: "So problems don't actually have to be solved?" Conventional Thinking: "Correct"

November 24, 2008 - Charles Buki

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