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Issue #150, Summer 2007 |
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Issue #150, Summer 2007 |
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PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCESThe Center for Housing Policy has developed four ways for communities to learn more about shared-equity strategies and offers a multimedia suite of resources at www.nhi.org/go/nhc. In Analyzing Land Readjustment: Economics, Law, and Collective Action, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy fellow Yu-Hung Hong offers an alternative to current eminent domain practices. He proposes land readjustment, which involves giving property owners a stake in the redevelopment project - an approach that has been practiced in France, Germany, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Taiwan. www.nhi.org/go/lincolninst New Society Publishers released The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking, by Jay Walljasper, senior fellow of Project for Public Spaces (PPS) and executive editor of Ode Magazine. www.nhi.org/go/diyplace What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation, an anthology of post-Katrina writing, is available from South End Press. www.southendpress.org Rural communities and economic-development issues are the focus of the Spring 2007 issue of Community Investments. It highlights ways that practitioners and policymakers are shifting their efforts toward the development of local assets - such as building leadership and entrepreneurial capacity - and discusses innovative ways to leverage limited resources to build housing, improve infrastructure, and reduce poverty. We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do - and
Why, by writer/editor Kristin Layng Szakos and Virginia Organizing
Project executive director Joe Szakos, helps to demystify organizing
and offers a glimpse into the lives of people who do it. www.nhi.org/go/vbpress AWARDS
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