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Websites The Building Better Communities Network’s (BBCN) website, www.bettercommunities.org, offers “one-stop shopping” for those involved in and affected by the siting of non-market housing and services. The website has links to important work, documents, and experts in the field, and users can add resources as well. Publications A Seat at the Table: Keeping the Public in Public Policy, written by Ami Nagle and published by the Neighborhood Funders Group, examines how community-based organizations are using public policy to address critical issues. 202-833-4690; www.nfg.org. Barriers to the Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing is a two-part report published by HUD and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Volume 1 focuses on findings and analysis and Volume 2 presents six case studies. Available from HUD User for $5.00. 800-245-2691; 301-519-5767; www.huduser.org. Asset Development Policy: The New Opportunity, published by the Center on Hunger and Poverty (CHP), extols the virtues of establishing an asset-development policy framework and how it may help low-income families to prosper. Larry W. Beeferman, CHP, 781-736-8682; lwb@brandeis.edu. Charlotte’s Equity Loan Program: A Model for Inner-City Redevelopment by Anne Scorza, is an in-depth analysis of how a Charlotte, NC, program invested $4 million in 123 inner-city companies and leveraged an additional $20 million in private capital. The report is available as a PDF file, or call Anne Scorza, 800-476-7428. The Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s (LISC) Center for Home Ownership and the Knowledge Sharing Initiative have published two new studies, Gentrification: Practice and Politics by Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard, and Mind the Gap: Issues in Overcoming the Information, Income, Wealth and Supply Gaps Facing Potential Buyers of Affordable Homes by J. Michael Collins and Doug Dylla. Roseann Abdu, LISC Center for Home Ownership, 202-739-9285. Do Federal Funds Better Support Cities Or Suburbs?: A Spatial Analysis of Federal Spending in the Chicago Metropolis finds that federal programs to encourage wealth-building have been heavily concentrated in the newer suburbs. Published by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. Available online. |
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