New Neighborhood Initiative Seeks ‘Catalytic’ Investments

The Washington Times reports on a new program proposed by the Obama administration to transform poor neighborhoods across the nation. The initiative, which builds on the Hope VI model, will concentrate action and funding on urban neighborhoods and coordinate investments ranging from public transit to new housing, early childhood education, farmer’s markets, and school reforms: The [...]

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Webinar: Children and the Foreclosure Crisis

Chapin Hall and the Urban Institute’s next edition of “Thursday’s Child” will cover the impact of the foreclosure crisis on children and families. Register here. Children, Families, and Foreclosures: The Economic Crisis Hits Home March 12, 2009 Listen to a live audio webcast 9 am ET / 8 am CT / 7 am MT / [...]

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Thoughts on Residential Mobility

The Annie E. Casey Foundation sponsored a webinar today called “Implications of Family Mobility for Place-based Work.” The event is part of a series titled Strengthening Families through Community Change, whose intent is to share lessons-learned from their Making Connections program. That program seeks to improve prospects for children by strengthening families and transforming communities [...]

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The 20K House

Physical poverty is not an abstraction, but we almost never think of impoverishment as evidence of a world that exists. Much less do we imagine that it’s a condition from which we may draw enlightenment in a very practical way. A good friend of mine called me yesterday to tell me about the $20K houses [...]

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Americans Moving Less

Warning: What follows is kind of a wonky post, especially for the holiday week. Via the New York Times comes a report that Americans are moving less than at any other time since the Census Bureau began tracking the figure: The monthly Current Population Survey found that fewer than 12 percent of Americans moved since [...]

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