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Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development
This Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD). Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves and bringing about systemic change.
The Community Development Reader
The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With chapters written by some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the book presents a diverse set of perspectives on community development. These selections inform the reader about established and emerging community development institutions and practices as well as the main debates in the field. The second edition is significantly updated and expanded to include a section on globalization as well as new chapters on the foreclosure crisis, and emerging forms of community .
A Right to Housing
An examination of America's housing crisis by the leading progressive housing activists in the country.
Battle for Bed-Stuy
In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
Business Planning for Affordable Housing Developers
Using a seven step process, real estate developers will be mentored through the path to creating a three to five year business plan. It includes a template outlining the narrative and spreadsheet format for administrative and capital projections. It also includes examples of real estate plans from successful operations. The seven steps to create a fundable plan are: Describe the Business, Evaluate the Environment, Plan Organization, Management, and Personnel, The Financial System, Marketing Strategy, Identify and Defeat Risk, and Develop and Sell Your Plan. This niche guidance is targeted to Real Estate Developers and nonprofit organizations who are actively pursuing a successful path to long term sustainability.
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African Americans in the U.S. Economy
Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economy represents a contribution to recent scholarship that seeks to lessen this imbalance. This book builds upon, and significantly extends, the principles, terminology, and methods of standard economics and black political economy. Influenced by path-breaking studies presented in several scholarly economic journals, this volume is designed to provide a political-economic analysis of the past and present economic status of African Americans. The chapter...
