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ARTICLES

Aaron Bernstein with Christopher Palmeri and Roger O. Crockett, “An Inner-City Renaissance.” Business Week, Oct. 27, 2003, pages 64-66, 68.
http://www.businessweek.com/@@JXi1OYQQdP6jnA0A/
magazine/content/03_43/b3855110_mz021.htm

Lisa Chamberlain, “Luring Business Developers into Low-Income Areas: Housing Tax Credits Successfully Created Homes; a Commercial Version Is Doing the Same for Jobs,” New York Times, January 25, 2006.
article-chamberlain.pdf (488KB)

G. William Domhoff, “The Ford Foundation in the Inner City: Forging an Alliance with Neighborhood Activists,” Santa, Cruz, CA: WhoRulesAmerica.net, September 2005.
article-domhoff.pdf (590KB)

Alyssa Katz, “Inclusionary Zoning’s Big Moment.” City Limits Monthly: Jan.-Feb. 2005.
http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/articleView.cfm?
articlenumber=1212

Jane Knitzer and Fida Adely, “It Takes a CDC.” Shelterforce Online: Issue #123. May-June 2002.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/123/ittakesaCDC.html

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Bart Harvey, “A Decent Home and Suitable Living Environment for All Americans: Rhetoric of Legitimate Goal,” The John T. Dunlop Lecture With Bart Harvey, Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, October 3, 2006.
article-harvey.pdf (200KB)

Bill Lennertz and Aarin Lutzenhiser, “Charrettes 101: Dynamic Planning for Community Change,” Building Blocks, summer 2003, vol. 4., no. 1.
article-lennertz.pdf (212KB)

Nelson Merced and Melvyn Colon, “NWO’S as Institutions For Asset Building,” Monthly Perspective, Waltham: MA, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University, March 2006 .
article-merced.pdf (64KB)

National Vacant Properties Campaign, Vacant Properties: The True Costs to Communities, Washington, DC: NVPC, August 2005.
report-nvpc.pdf (613KB)

Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, “Top Ten State and Local Strategies to Increase Affordable Housing Supply,” Housing Facts & Findings, volume 5, number 1 (2003).
article-nelson.pdf (160KB)

Manuel Pastor, Jr., and Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby III, and Marta López-Garza Growing Together: Linking Regional and Community Development in a Changing Economy, Shelterforce Online, January-February 1998.
article-pastor-et-al.pdf (109KB)

Neal Peirce, Eminent Domain: A fair middle path?, Stateline.org, Nov.1, 2005.
article-peirce.pdf (56KB)

Randy Stoecker, “The CDC Model of Urban Redevelopment: A Critique and an Alternative.” Journal of Urban Affairs (1997), volume 19, no. 1, pages 1-22.

Steve Steel, “LISC and the Revisioning of Toledo,” Toledo City Paper, November 28, 2007.
article-steel.pdf (95KB)

Randy Stoecker, “The Last Line of Defense,” Shelterforce Online, September-October 2005, issue no. 143.
article-stoecker.pdf (95KB)

Avis Vidal and W. Dennis Keating, guest editors, special issue on “Community Development” Current Issues and Emerging Challenges,” Journal of Urban Affairs, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 125-257.

Robert Zdenek and Carol Steinbach, “Built to Last.” Shelterforce Online: Issue #123. May-June 2002.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/123/builttolast.html

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BOOKS

Barbara Abell, Supermarket Development: CDC's and Inner City Economic Development. Washington, D.C.: NCCED, 1998.

Barbara Abell, Overcoming Obstacles to CDC Supermarket Development, A Guide. Washington, D.C.: NCCED, 2001.

John Atlas and Ellen Shoshkes, Saving Affordable Housing: What Community Groups Can Do & What Government Should Do, Montclair, NJ: National Housing Institute, 1997.
book-atlas-shoshkes.pdf (1.1MB)

Mary Brooks, Housing Trust Fund Progress Report 2002. Frazier Park, CA: Center for Community Change, 2002.

Mary Brooks, Winning at the Local Level: 5 Housing Trust Fund Campaigns Tell Their Stories. Frazier Park, CA: Center for Community Change, 2004.

Andrew Cuomo, New Markets: the Untapped Retail Buying Power in America’s Inner Cities, Washington, D.C.: HUD, July 1999.

Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens, editors. Urban Problems and Community Development. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

Paul Grogan and Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Renewal. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000.

Andy Mott, Moving to Scale in Improving America’s Housing. Washington, D.C.: Center for Community Change, 2003.

National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED), Coming of Age, Washington D.C.: NCCED, 1999.

Mitchell Sviridoff, Editor, The Trials and Errors that Shaped the Modern Community Development Corporation. New York: New School University, Community Development Research Center, 2004). (Introduction only is available on line).
http://www.newschool.edu/milano/cdrc/pubs/inventing/index.html
book-svirdoff-intro.pdf (119KB)

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PAPERS

Alan Berube and Bruce Katz, Katrina’s Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution (Metropolitan Policy Program), October 2005.
paper-berube-katz.pdf (326KB)

Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone, Two Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends, 1999–2005, Living Cities Census Series, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, December 2006.
paper-berube-kneebone.pdf (1.2MB)

Paul C. Brophy & Kim Burnett, Building a Framework for Community Development in Weak Market Cities, Denver, CO: Community Development Partnership Network, April 2003.
paper-brophy-burnett.pdf (131KB)

Gordon Davis, Jaime Bordenave, Richard A. Hanson, Richard Shields, and Roger Williams, Affordable Housing in the United States --- Some Optimistic Approaches, Vancouver, Canada: World Urban Forum III, June 19-23, 2006.
paper-davis-et-al.pdf (236KB)

Matias Sendoa Echanove, Bed-Stuy on the Move: Demographic Trends & Economic Development in the heart of Brooklyn, Master Thesis, advisor Prof. Susan Fairstein, New York, NY: Columbia University, Urban Planning Program, 2003.
paper-echanove.pdf (1.2MB)

Emily Felt, Patching the Fabric of the Neighborhood: The Practical Challenges of Infill Housing Development for CDCs, Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and NeighborWorks America, April 2007.
paper-felt.pdf (581KB)

Kelly Hill, with Colette Pozzo, Managing Neighborhood Change: Best Practices for Communities Undergoing Gentrification, Washington, DC: NeighborWorks America, April 20, 2005.
paper-hill-pozzo.pdf (796KB)

Bruce Katz and Margery Austin Turner, Rethinking U.S. Rental Housing Policy, RR-07, Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, March 2007.
paper-katz-turner.pdf (212KB)

National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED), 40 Strokes of the Pen: Recommendations … for policymakers who are ready to get down to the serious business of creating exceptional communities, Washington, DC: NCCED, March 2005.
paper-ncced.pdf (180KB)

Philip Nyden, Nathan Benefield, and Maureen Hellwig, Who Is Listening to Local Communities? Connections between Chicago Region Community-Based Organizations and Regional, State, and National Policy Initiatives, Chicago, IL: Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Chicago, December 2005.
paper-nyden-et-al.pdf (219KB)

Rolf Pendall, Robert Puentes, and Jonathan Martin, From Traditional to Reformed: A Review of the Land Use Regulations in the Nation’s 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, August 2006.
paper-pendall-et-al.pdf (2MB)

Tony Proscio, Food, Markets, and Healthy Communities, New York, NY: Local Initiatives Support Corporation, January 2006.
paper-proscio.pdf (6.2MB)

Ann L. Silverman, Community Controlled Housing for Massachusetts: Securing Affordability for the Long Term, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, August 2006.
paper-silverman.pdf (284KB)

Cynthia Stewart and Alexis Morris, Development in Underserved Retail Markets, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA: International Council of Shopping Centers and Business for Social Responsibility, July 2002.
paper-stewart-morris.pdf (152KB)

Margery Austin Turner, Mark Woolley, G. Thomas Kingsley, Susan J. Popkin, Diane Levy and Elizabeth Cove, Severely Distressed Public Housing: The Costs of Inaction, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, March 2007.
paper-turner-et-al.pdf (56KB)

Chris Walker, Smart Strategies for Community Development in the 21st Century, Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2005.
paper-walker.pdf (45KB)

Lee Winkelman, Massachusetts Community Development Corporations and Community Organizing." COMM-ORG: The On-line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. Ed. Randy Stoecker. Toledo, Ohio: COMM-ORG, Dec. 1997.
http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers98/winkelman.htm

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REPORTS

John Accordino et al., The Ripple Effect: Economic Impacts of Targeted Community Investments, Richmond, VA: Local Initiatives Support Corporation, 2005.
report-accordino-et-al.pdf (2.1MB)

John Accordino, George Galster, and Peter Tatian, The Impacts of Targeted Public and Nonprofit Investment on Neighborhood Development: Research based on Richmond, Virginia’s Neighborhoods in Bloom Program, Richmond, VA: Community Affairs Office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, July 2005.
report-accordino-et-al2.pdf (3MB)

William Apgar, Allegra Calder, Michael Collins, and Mark Duda, An Examination of Manufactured Housing as a Community- and Asset-Building Strategy, report to the Ford Foundation, Washington, D.C.: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, 2002.
report-apgar-et-al.pdf (1.2MB)

Patrick M. Costigan and Leo V. Quigley, Resident Success in Economically Integrated, Socially Diverse Housing: A Practitioner’s Guide Prepared for the Ford Foundation Mixed-Income/Mixed-Race Housing Initiative, Boston, MA: The Community Builders, January 2006.
report-costigan-quigley.pdf (2.7MB)

Community Research Partners, Creating a Tipping Point: Housing Development as a Tool for Neighborhood Revitalization, Columbus, OH: CRP, August 2005.
report-crp.pdf (1.2MB)

Frances Ferguson, Larry Buron, Jill Khadduri and Judy Weber, Seven Strategies for Successfully Marketing and Stabilizing the Occupancy of Mixed-Income/Mixed-Race Properties: Summary Report, Washington, DC: NeighborWorks America, June 2006.
report-ferguson-et-al.pdf (1MB)

Jill Khadduri, Larry Buron, and Carissa Climaco, Are States Using the Low Income Housing Tax Credit to Enable Families with Children to Live in Low Poverty and Racially Integrated Neighborhoods? Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates, July 28, 2006.
report-khadduri-et-al.pdf (416KB)

Darryl King, Julian Brown, Eddie Rosario, Kim Clark, and Amy Levine, Developing Justice in South Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY: Fifth Avenue Committee, December 2002.
report-king-et-al.pdf (756KB)

Living Cities, A Working Model for Healthy Cities. New York: Living Cities, August 2002.
report-livingcities.pdf (2.2MB)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), The Whole Agenda: The Past and Future of Community Development. New York: LISC, 2002.
report-lisc.pdf (869)

Anita Miller and Tom Burns, Going Comprehensive: Anatomy of an Initiative that Worked—CCRP in the South Bronx, Philadelphia, PA: OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, December 2006.
report-miller-burns.pdf (1.1MB)

National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) Losing Ground in the Best of Times: Low Income Renters in the 1990s, Washington, D. C.: NLIHC, 2004.
report-nlihc.pdf (509 MB)

Alan Mallach, Building A Better Urban Future: New Directions for Housing Policies in Weak Market Cities. Montclair, NJ: Community Development Partnerships Network, The Enterprise Foundation, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and the National Housing Institute, June 2005.
report-mallach.pdf (463KB)

Susan J. Popkin, Bruce Katz, Mary K. Cunningham, Karen D. Brown, Jeremy Gustafson, and Margery A. Turner, A Decade of HOPE VI: Research Findings and Policy Challenges, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute and The Brookings Institution, May 2004.
report-popkin-et-al.pdf (236KB)

Michael Porter, The Changing Models of Inner City Grocery Retailing, Boston: ICIC, 2002.
report-porter.pdf (1.43MB)

Tony Proscio, Healthy Housing, Healthy Families: Toward a National Agenda for Affordable Healthy Homes, Columbia, MD: The Enterprise Foundation, Dec. 2004.
report-proscio-homes.pdf (260KB)

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Timothy Ready, Hispanic Housing in the United States 2006, South Bend, IN: Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, June 2006.
report-ready.pdf (5MB)

William M. Rohe, Rachel G. Bratt, and Protip Biswas, Evolving Challenges for Community Development Corporations,: The Causes and Impacts of Failures, Downsizings and Mergers, Chapel Hill, NC: Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina, January 2003.
report-rohe-bratt-biswas.pdf (616KB)

Kalima Rose, Brad Lander, and Karoleen Feng, Increasing Housing Opportunity in New York City: The Case for Inclusionary Zoning. Oakland, CA and New York, NY: PolicyLink and Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development, Fall 2004.
report-rose.pdf (1.76MB)

Rural LISC. The Rural Home Loan Partnership 2002: Building Assets, Making Dreams Come True. Washington, D.C.: Rural LISC, 2002.
report-ruralisc.pdf (2.39MB)

Amanda Shaffer, with Robert Gottlieb, The Persistence of L.A.’s Grocery Gap: The Need for a New Food Policy and Approach to Market Development, Los Angeles, CA: Center for Food and Justice, Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, May 28, 2002.
report-shaffer.pdf (1.2MB)

Carol Steinbach, Reaching New Heights, 2005 NCCED Census: Trends and Achievements of Community-Based Development Organizations, research led by Christopher Walker with Francisca Winston, and Kersten Gensch, Washington, DC: National Congress for Community Economic Development, June 2006,
report-steinbach.pdf (712KB)

Rachel Swierzewski, Rural Philanthropy: Building Dialogue From Within, Washington, DC: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, revised edition, August 2007.
report-swierzewski.pdf (692KB)

James Tassos, How States are Using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to Advance Healthy, Efficient and Environmentally Sound Homes, Columbia, MD: Enterprise Community Partners, 2007.
report-tassos07.pdf (1.4MB)

Alexander von Hoffman, Fuel Lines for the Urban Revival Engine: Neighborhoods, Community Development Corporations, and Financial Intermediaries. Washington, D.C.: Fannie Mae Foundation, December 2001.

executive-summary.pdf (307KB)
introduction.pdf (87KB)
analytical-chapter.pdf (124KB)
  case-studies.pdf (542KB)
conclusion.pdf (81KB)
references.pdf (84KB)

Christopher Walker. Community Development Corporations and Their Changing Support Systems. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, Dec. 2002.
report-walker.pdf (1.22MB)

Christopher Walker, The Impact of Community Development Corporations on Urban Neighborhoods, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute (Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center), June 2005.
report-walker05.pdf (2.89MB)

Christopher Walker and Mark Weinheimer, Community Development in the 1990s. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, Sept. 1998,
report-walker-weinheimer.pdf (1.22MB)

Jessica L. Webster, Success in Affordable Housing: The Metro Denver Experience, Chicago, IL: Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI), February 2005.
report-webster.pdf (3MB)

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