In 2012, the government of Colombia launched a national program to provide 100,000 free housing units to the country’s poorest residents, including some of the more than six…
How are neighborhood communities created when the government provides free housing to a specific population? The paper examines the formation processes of displaced…
Governing authorities in cities around the world are facing challenges to incentivize compact and more inclusive cities through investments in social housing. This paper…
Around the world, mayors and other urban officials confront significant obstacles when they try to use investments in social housing to help make their cities more inclusive…
This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard Joint…
The great majority of America’s high-performing community development organizations (CDOs) are actively tackling health challenges in their communities. In a new working…
Alina Schnake-Mahl, Sarah Norman
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January 30, 2017
During the past fifty years, community development organizations have worked in low-income communities that face the greatest barriers to good health. While recent changes in…