January/February 2001
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Back to Table of Contents		 Too Much Month at the End of the Paycheck, a new book and photography exhibit on payday lending, is presented by Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina (CRA-NC) and the Center for Community Capitalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Includes essays by history professor Peter Coclanis and Michael Stegman. CRA-NC, 919-667-1557; www.cra-nc.org.

Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America, a collection of articles from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council newsletter. 336 pp. $26.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling. PRAAC, 3000 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200; Washington, DC 20008.

The Analysis of the Housing Stock and Action Plan to Make High-Risk Housing Lead-Safe (a download in Word format only) are two reports aimed at combating lead hazards in high-risk housing from The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning.

A Nonprofit Capacity Self-Assessment Workbook for Rural Community-Based Organizations, a new workbook published by the Housing Assistance Council, is designed to help nonprofit housing groups become stronger organizations and improve their chances for grant funding. Pat Cleman, 202-842-8600 x138.

Organizers’ Collaborative helps those working for social change use computers and the internet to further communication and collaboration. They publish “how-to” information through the TechTips section of their website and publish a listserv of related news and announcements. www.organizenow.net.

Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion by Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Larry Keating charts Atlanta’s growth and prosperity – and the findings are not always positive. Forthcoming from Temple University Press; $22.95 paper. Gary Kramer, Temple University Press, 215-204-3440; kramer@mail.temple.edu.

Residential Rehabilitation Inspection Guidelines and Case Studies of the Conversion of Project-Based Assistance to Tenant-Based Assistance, Final Report are now available from HUD USER. 800-245-2691.

Discrimination in Housing is Illegal, Fighting Back Against Housing Discrimination and Know the Signs of Housing Discrimination are free from Consumer Action. 415-777-2567; www.consumer-action.org.

Curbing Predatory Home Mortgage Lending is a joint report from HUD and the Treasury Department that offers recommendations for advocates to protect families from abusive predatory lending practices.

Reducing Poverty & Revitalizing Neighborhoods: Making Collaboration Work is a report from the National League of Cities on successful collaborations between city governments and community organizations to reduce poverty and revitalize neighborhoods. 202-626-3000.

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