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Issue #148, Winter 2006 |
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The Community Development Institute at Rutgers University and the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey released Residents at the Center: A Handbook on Community-Based Planning for Distressed Neighborhoods. Using three case studies from Camden, Jersey City and Newark, the Handbook provides an opportunity to understand the theory of community-based planning, and to learn how it works in practice. , 732-932-3133 X534Sage Publications published Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest, by Mike Eichler. Taking a distinctly different approach to traditional confrontational organizing strategies, Eichler bases his work on his experience as an organizer in a variety of urban settings. www.sagepub.com Smart Growth America, with the International City/County Management Association and the Smart Growth Network published This Is Smart Growth, which illustrates how using smart growth techniques can improve the quality of development. www.smartgrowth.org In The Cost of Living and the Geographic Distribution of Poverty, Dean Jolliffe analyzed how the calculation of poverty's prevalence, depth and severity in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas would be affected by incorporating Fair Market Rents published by HUD between 1991 and 2002. The study demonstrated that when prevailing rents were considered, the prevalence of poverty increased from 11.6 to 12.5 percent in metropolitan areas in 2002, while it dropped from 14.2 to 10.5 percent in non-metropolitan areas. www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR26/ A Brookings Institution report, Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe, focuses on fast-growing exurbs - rural places that are becoming suburban. In 2004, exurban residents of large metropolitan areas included 83 percent non-Hispanic whites, 7.4 percent African Americans and 6.5 percent Hispanics, and their diversity was increasing. Exurban income levels varied, but were generally lower than suburban averages. Of exurban homeowners with mortgages, 24 percent were cost burdened. www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20061017_exurbia.htm The Greenlining Institute released Investing in a Diverse Democracy: Foundation Giving to Minority-Led Nonprofits, which found that only 3.6 percent of grant dollars from the nation's top 24 private foundations went to minority-led organizations. www.greenlining.org The Consumer Federation of America has launched a Web site that helps consumers and policymakers combat costly check-based lending services. The site explains how payday loans and the loan industry work, covers key state laws and regulations and offers advice and links to research. www.paydayloaninfo.org The NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling launched a new Web site in partnership with E*Trade Financial that provides learning tools for housing counselors and clients. KeystoMyHome.org LouisianaRebuilds.info,
a comprehensive internet portal that connects displaced Louisiana residents
to rebuilding resources, is a redesigned, user-friendly, Web site with
information on Louisiana communities, housing, education and childcare,
health and safety, and jobs and local business. AWARDS
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