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Culture or Capital
Would you go to Pilsen for `zocalo'?
By Antonio Olivo, Tribune staff reporter, Chicago Tribune, 11/15/05‘It’s Not Community Round Here, It’s Neighbourhood’: Neighbourhood Change and Cohesion in Urban Regeneration Policies
by Richard Meegan and Alison Mitchell - Urban Studies, Vol. 38, No. 12, 2167–2194, 2001Linking Urban Regeneration And Community Renewal: The Redfern-Waterloo Example
by Elizabeth Rice, Rice Consulting, and PhD candidate at the University of Technology, SydneyTHE REDFERN-WATERLOO AUTHORITY: SYDNEY’S CONTINUING USE OF DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS AS A PRIMARY MODE OF URBAN GOVERNANCE
by Glen Searle, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, SydneyLeveraging Assets: How Small Budget Arts Activities Benefit Neighborhoods
by Diane Grams and Michael WarrArt Institute,
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Symphony Center,
Field Museum,
Adler Planetarium,
Shedd Aquarium,
Lincoln Park Zoo,
Mexican Fine Arts Museum,
North Michigan Avenue.
'Hood Winked. Making public housing livable is as simple as getting rid of the people who live there.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Loss of Housing in DC.: Fannie Mae annual report, Housing in the Nation's Capital 2004
Story of HOPE IV and displacement: Dream City by Laura Lang (3Mb pdf)
Stories of tenant rights and City Council struggles (Washington Post)
D.C. Tenants Fight to Own by Eric M. Weiss
The tenants knew something was up when the live-in maintenance man was kicked out ...D.C. Bill Advances Giving Tenants Right to Purchase by Eric M. Weiss
The D.C. Council gave preliminary approval yesterday to measures to extend the city's rent control law ...Residents Purchase Apartment Property Put Up for Sale in Hot Market by Keat Foong
An apartment's residents essentially pulled the rug out from under the feet of an investment team ...
Fighting Gentrification Chicago Style
Blanc et al.: From the Ground Up
More details on LSNA's work around balanced developmentCommunity Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Examples of Inclusionary Housing Ordinances
Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA)
Organization of the NorthEast (ONE)
The Study released by the Balanced Development Campaign