Urban-Community Projects
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Urban-Community Project of the Month
Past Urban Community Projects
1965 Moynihan Report: The Negro Family Revisited
2009 Israeli Arab / Palestinian Public Opinion Survey
The 2010 State of Evaluation Report
2015 ACSM American Fitness Index
2017 Police Violence Report
2020 Picture of Preservation Report
2021 Report on Inquiry into Redlining in Buffalo, New York
Achieving the Anchor Promise
Adequate & Equitable U.S. PK-12 Infrastructure PRIORITY ACTIONS FOR SYSTEMIC REFORM
All About Accessibility Remodeling and Retrofits
Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy
A Choice With No Options: Atlanta Public Housing Residents' Lived Experiences in the Face of Relocation
The Anti-Poverty Impacts of Expanding Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers - Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
City of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Housing Authority - Assessment of Fair Housing
City Rights in an Era of Preemption: A State-by-State Analysis
A CRITICAL VIEW ON THE ALS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE
A City is not a Toy: How SimCity Plays with Urbanism
PRRAC: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing at HUD, A First Term Report Card
America's Electoral Future How Changing Demographics Could Impact Presidential Elections from 2016 to 2032
A Study of St.Henri: Experiences of D isplacement in a Neighbourhood Undergoing Gentrification and Mega-Project Development
The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute - Training Videos and Podcasts
Atlas of ReUrbanism
Big city growth stalls further, as the suburbs make a comeback
Building Movement Project
Building Opportunity: Mapping Gentrification and Investment across Opportunity Zones
campaign zero
The Century Foundation: Here Is What School Integration in America Looks Like Today
Community Control of Land and Housing Report
Coping with the Great Recession: Disparate Impacts on Economic Well-Being in Poor Neighborhoods
Creating Community Controlled, Deeply Affordable Housing: A Resource Toolkit for Community Activists & Allied Community-Based Housing Developers.
The DC Area Survey
The Educational Opportunity Project
The End of the Segregated Century
Even before coronavirus, census shows U.S. cities' growth was stagnating
Free Access to the edited book "Diversity and Disparities"
Gentrification and cultural displacement most intense in America's largest cities, and absent from many others
Gentrification and Disinvestment 2020 (Report)
The Global Reach of Land Trust Organizations
A Growing Tradition, Examining the African American Family Foundation
A New Goal for America's High Schools: College Preparation for All
An Introduction to the Cuban Revolution and Its Current Challenges
Anchor Institutions and Urban Economic Development: From Community Benefit to Shared Value
At What Cost?: HIV and Human Rights Consequences of the Global War on Drugs
Ayse Pamuk International Affordable Housing Image Collection
Community Benefit Agreements: the power, practice and promise of a responsible redevelopment tool (Annie E Casey Foundation)
Competitive cities for jobs and growth : what, who, and how
Democracy in Color: The Trump Administration's Record of Racism
Denver Gentrification Study: Mitigating Involuntary Displacement
Designing Dredge Studio: Toledo
A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities
Did States Maximize Their Opportunity Zone Selections?
Learning from Opportunity Zones: How to improve place-based policies
East Avenue Project: Racial Segregation and the City of Austin
Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts (Annie E Casey Foundation)
A Study of Closing Costs for FHA Mortgages
Alcohol Outlets as Attractors of Violence and Disorder: A Closer Look at the Neighborhood Environment
Biggest Bang for the Buck: Researchers Weigh Stimulus Proposals
BMHA Perry Choice Neighborhood
Buffalo Shrinking City Studio
Building a Healthy Community: A Roadmap to Investment in the Central City South Neighborhood
Capital Availability in Inner Cities: What Role for Federal Policy?
Charlotte Housing Authority's Moving Forward Program
Civic Engagement; Public Service, Personal Responsibility (Magazine of the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark)
Confronting Concentrated Poverty in Fresno
Cops, Kids and Culture
Discrimination Against Families With Children In Rental Housing Markets: Findings Of The Pilot Study
Diversity Awarnesses Quizzes - downloadable
Do Federally Assisted Households have Access to High Performing Public Schools?
Dr. Kings Dream Denied: Fourty Years of Failed Federal Enforcement (2008 Fair Housing Trends Report)
Empowering Local Communities: Through Leadership Development and Capacity Building
The End of Segregation? Hardly
E Pluribus...Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students
Evidence Matters: Transforming Knowledge into Housing and Community Development Policy (March 2014)
Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Cities
Federal Policy Ideas for Community Revitalization
Florence-Firestone Stories of Everyday Heroes
The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families
Forging a New Housing Policy: Opportunities in the Wake of Crisis
GAO
Report: LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT Some Agency Practices Raise
Concerns and IRS Could Improve Noncompliance Reporting and Data
Collection
Getting things done together: A workbook for achieving goals regionally
Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: Addressing Inequalities in Urban Environments
High-Speed Internet Connectivity in North Carolina's Distressed Urban Areas
Hopeworks 'N Camden
Housing in America: The baby boomers turn 65
Housing America's Older Adults 2018
Housing for People with Disabilities
Housing Options for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
How Public is Private Philanthropy?
Immigration Policy and Less-Skilled Workers in the United States
In the Face of Gentrification: Case Studies of Local Efforts to Mitigate Displacement
The Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017
Interactive Tracking deregulation in the Trump era
Investing in Community Land Trusts: A Coversation with Funders of CLTs
Is the Grass Always Greener?: Destination Characteristics of Former Public Housing Residents Views Six Months After Relocation
Journal of Community Power Building, Volume IV
The Kenosha Social Capital Study
(Contact Jo Anne Schneider for more information at www.chrysaliscollaborations.com)
The Labor Market Performance of Young Black Men in the Great Recession
Laying the groundwork for change: Demolition, urban strategy, and policy reform
LAND READJUSTMENT: SOLVING URBAN PROBLEMS THROUGH INNOVATIVE APPROACH
Land Values and the Enduring Significance of Racial Residential Segregation - by Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
Leaving Households Behind: Institutional Investors and the U.S. Housing Recovery
THE LEGACY OF BUFFALO'S LANDMARK HOUSING DESEGREGATION CASE, COMER V. KEMP
Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues
Low-Income Families and Communities (Brookings Institution)
Making a Business Case for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Key Issues and Observations
The Making of Ferguson
Managing Neighborhood Change: A Framework for Sustainable and Equitable Revitalization
Maximizing the Neighborhood Stabilization Program Opportunity
Mayors' Resource Guide on Vacant and Abandoned Properties
Measuring Urban Attitudes Using Twitter: An Exploratory Study
Miami Affordability Project (MAP)
Modern-Day Redlining Mapping Tool
Move Out to Where: Initial Relocation Destinations of Former Public Housing Residents in Atlanta a Preliminary Brief
National Neighborhood Indicators Project
National Urban Indicators Partnership
Negro Removal in Chattanooga: The Impact of Market-Based Displacement on Communities of Color
New Orleans 2016 Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH)
The Nonprofit Sector in Brief: Public Charities, Giving and Volunteering
Tracking the COVID-19 Recession's Effects on Food, Housing, and Employment Hardships
[CROSS-SITE PUBLICATIONS (forthcoming in April 2019)]
North Carolina's Distressed Urban Tracts: A View of the State's Economically Disadvantaged Communities
Out of Reach: Twenty-five years later, the affordable housing crisis continues
Parent Power and Urban School Reform
Partnerships for Joint Use: Expanding the Use of Public School Infrastructure to Benefit Students and Communities
Partnership for Sustainable Communities - General Resources
Perspectives from Main Street: The Impact of COVID-19 on Communities and the Entities Serving Them
PFBC Technical Assistance for the Gary, Indiana (APA Planning and the Black Community Division)
The Potential for Youth Sports to Improve Childhood Outcomes
Public Administration and the Impact Economy
Public School Choice in the District of Columbia A Descriptive Analysis
Putting Open Data to Work for Communities
Questions and Answers About Social Capital (2 page brief)
Race, Equity and Smart Growth: Why People of Color Must Speak for Themselves
Race Relations 2006: A Research Study
RACIAL ATTITUDES IN AMERICA: TRENDS AND INTERPRETATIONS
Racial Wealth Divde (RWD) Program
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Housing and School Integration
Refugees from Central American gangs
Regulatory Report, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (NYU Institute for Policy Integrity)
Restoring the Health of Your Organization: A Practical Guide to Curing and Preventing Curruption in Local Governments and Communities
The Rivertown Simulation
The Role of Investors in The One-To-Three Family REO Market: The Case of Cleveland
Shifting Neighborhoods, Gentrification and cultural displacement in American cities
Shelter Force Fall 2007 Issue on Houing Policy
Small
Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs): An Analysis of First Year
Implementation in Mandatory Metropolitan Areas and Barriers to Voluntary
Implementation in Other Areas (PRRAC & Buffalo Center for Social
Research at the University at Buffalo, September 2019)
Social Capital and Place: A Primer
Social housing in New York Or: How NYCHA managed not to demolish the projectS
Special Issue on Active Transportation (SUSTAIN)
Social Capital and Social Geography
Teaching how cities change visually, Jerome Krase
The Solution Is Social Housing
State of Black America 2013
The State of the Nation's Housing 2018
State of New York City's Subsidized Housing
State of the Cities 2020
State of the States: The Poverty and Inequality Report
The Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy
Strategic Property Code Enforcement and Impacts on Surrounding Markets
Study: Highway Pollution Contributes to Higher COVID-19 Death Rates
Team-Building and Participation: Guide to Tips on Principles and Practices
The Crisis Continues: Black Male Joblessness in Milwaukee 2007
The Dirksen Center Projects
The Economic Costs of Poverty in the United States: Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor
The Mechanics of City-School Initiatives: Transforming Neighborhoods of Distress & Despair into Neighborhoods of Choice and Promise
The Nonprofit Sector and the Federal Budget: Fiscal Year 2006 and Beyond
The Quest for Inner-City Transformation
The State of Public Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, National Security, and Human Rights in the United States
The Uncharted, Uncertian Future of HOPEIV Redevelopments
Toward a More Perfect Union: Understanding Systemic Racism and Resulting Inequity in Latino Communities
Understanding the Implications of Raising the Minimum Wage in the District of Columbia
UN-Habitat Global Indicators Database
The Urban Institute's Program on Neighborhoods and Youth Development: Understanding How Place Matters for Kids
The 2020 Democratic Candidates' Positions on Fair and Affordable Housing
Understanding Nashville's Housing Crisis
Using Social Capital to Get Jobs for People with Disabilities
Tools to Engage: Resources for Nonprofits
Unions, Community-Based Organizations, and Pre-Apprenticeship Programs
Unlocking Discrimination
Urban Landlords and the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Urban Research-Based Action Network Newsletter
Urban Transition Historical GIS Project
US 2010: Discover America In the New Century (Census and other reports on segregation, race, and housing)
Vibrant Communities Canada 2002-2010 Evaluation Report
"We Are Not Just A Band-Aid": How Homeless Service Providers in Chicago Carry Out Policy Advocacy
The Washington Post : A year of reckoning, Police fatally shoot nearly 1,000
Weathering the Storm; Have IDAs Helped Low-Income Homebuyers Avoid Foreclosure?
What's Really Wrong with Ferguson?
When
a Neighborhood Becomes a Revolving Door for Dominicans: Rising Housing
Costs in Washington Heights/Inwood and the Declining Presence of
Dominicans
When will your city feel the fiscal impact of COVID-19?
