Neighborhood Development
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Featured Publications
Responsible Redevelopment: Relocation Road Map 1.0
2008
Involuntary relocation is a disruptive and traumatic process that intensifies the challenges and risks faced by vulnerable families. This guide outlines some of the major issues and challenges to be faced when low-income families and children are displaced involuntarily by redevelopment projects and suggests some alternative standards and practices. This Road Map, which will be updated periodically, draws on the experience of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and others who seek to promote innovative and more beneficial relocation practices that lead to better choices and outcomes for residents.
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Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts
2007
The first in a series of planned monographs from the Neighborhood Development unit,this report provides a summary of the presentations and discussions held at a September 2006 consultative convened by Casey, entitled “The Eminent Domain Debate.”
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Community Benefits Agreements: The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool
2007
This is the second monograph in a series produced by the Casey Foundation to focus thought and attention on the use of responsible redevelopment practices. This report provides a summary of a consultative session on community benefits agreements that took place in May 2007.
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Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program
2011
This report presents the long-term impacts of a unique housing mobility demonstration, Moving to Opportunity (MTO), on housing and neighborhood conditions, physical and mental health, economic self-sufficiency, risky and criminal behavior, and educational outcomes.
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Responsible Demolition: A Baltimore Case Study with National Implications
2011
This report details how health risks were dramatically reduced through the use of well-planned demolition protocols as part of the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative.
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Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs: Racial and Ethnic Change in Metro America in the 2000s
2011
Census 2000 pointed to growing racial and ethnic diversity in the “melting pot suburbs” of many large U.S. metropolitan areas This report examines these trends through the lens of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, based on results from the 2010 Census.
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How to Evaluate Choice and Promise Neighborhoods
2011
The brief describes key research questions to keep in mind when evaluating place-based, saturation community development efforts and reviews how different evaluation approaches can address these core research questions.
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Shared Prosperity, Stronger Regions: An Agenda for Rebuilding America’s Older Core Cities
2011
This report explores the opportunities and challenges confronting older core cities by looking closely at five of them: Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
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