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Disruptive Strategies to Build a More Perfect Union
Read the full Expert Insight series! This article and video first appeared on LIIF’s Just.Good.Capital blog in September 2016. In the past, we built our neighborhoods and cities in ways that divided...
View ArticleCleveland’s Greater University Circle Initiative: An Anchor-Based Strategy...
Read the full Expert Insight series! This article and video first appeared on the Grant Makers in Health blog in September 2016. Cities are increasingly turning to their “anchor” institutions as...
View ArticleIn Texas, Cross-Sector Partnerships to Fight Suburban Poverty
Austin is making a big bet on the future of urban health care, and unlikely partnerships among the health, urban planning, and community development sectors are at its core. Earlier this year, the...
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Listening Beyond the Big City: Improving Health and Opportunity in Midsize,...
Off the top of your head, do you know how many cities, towns, and villages there are in the entire United States? It’s true that cities are where most Americans live: 10 cities have over a million...
View ArticleWhere Health Meets Equity in Ohio
Redlining has a long and unsavory history in America. A policy initiated by the federal Home Owners Loan Corporation in the 1930s in order to stabilize the housing market, its discriminatory impact on...
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Growing Community Health on the Ground
For a long time, parks and other urban green spaces were thought of as nice amenities—but not much more. They were beautiful and relaxing, but far from necessary for neighborhood health and well-being....
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Partnering with CDFIs: Catalysts for Sustainable Community Development
A Neighborhood Ripe for Revitalization Roanoke, Virginia’s West End neighborhood was historically among the most vibrant and impassioned communities in the city. More recently typified by high rates of...
View ArticleHealth Equity in a Changing Policy Environment: Three Former Federal...
This year, many organizations working to advance health equity find themselves in a new policy environment than in years before. Advocates may be unsure of how to navigate shifting national priorities,...
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Designing for Health in the Outer Mission
“What ideas do people have for the BART plaza?” asked Scott Falcone, posing the question to a group of community members. Falcone, an independent development consultant to nonprofit affordable housing...
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How an affordable housing developer improved Austin’s health outcomes
This article first appeared on the Urban Institute’s UrbanWire blog on July 20, 2017. As the deputy executive director of Foundation Communities, a nonprofit affordable housing developer in Austin,...
View ArticleColumbia Parc at the Bayou District, New Orleans, Louisiana
The St. Bernard Public Housing Development was already in severe disrepair and only 75 percent occupied on August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit leaving much of the Bayou District neighborhood...
View ArticleSan Pablo Avenue Corridor, Oakland, California
Not all community developers are aware that the work they’re doing has the potential to improve health, but the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) has built health into its strategic...
View ArticleCommunity Health and Literacy Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In 2012, a neighborhood clinic of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in South Philadelphia had outgrown its space and was looking to expand, but in this working class neighborhood of dense...
View ArticleRolling Hills Apartments, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Wherever there is conflict in the world, a few years later you start to see that population showing up here,” says Andriana Abariotes, executive director of Twin Cities LISC (Local Initiatives Support...
View ArticleBaker-Ripley Neighborhood Center, Houston, Texas
In the 1970s during Houston’s oil boom, the city’s Gulfton neighborhood sprouted street after street of luxury apartment complexes catering to the single young professionals pouring in to work in the...
View ArticleThe ReFresh Project, New Orleans, Louisiana
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the founders of what became Broad Community Connections (BCC) started attending community meetings, and exploring with their fellow community members how...
View ArticleThe Villages of East Lake, Atlanta, Georgia
Of the East Lake Meadows public housing project before revitalization, says Carol Naughton of Purpose Built Communities, “the only thing that was working was the drug trade.” Frequently called “Little...
View ArticleRebuild Potrero, San Francisco, California
Susan Neufeld, Vice President of Resident Programs and Services for BRIDGE Housing Corporation (BRIDGE), describes the existing 606-unit Potrero Terrace and Annex housing projects as “an island of...
View ArticleVita Health & Wellness District, Stamford, Connecticut
In the early 2000s, Stamford Hospital began planning a major expansion. Located in Stamford, Connecticut’s West Side neighborhood, the 305-bed regional hospital envisioned a large new state-of-the-art...
View ArticleRebuilding Neighborhoods So That Residents Can Thrive: More Community Close-Ups
Innovative community developers are making a real difference in the neighborhoods they are revitalizing, creating places that offer the physical, social and economic resources that all people need in...
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