Publications & Services

The Fannie Mae Foundation’s 2000 Rural Housing Progress Report contains information on loan volume, Native American lending, manufactured housing, and guaranteed rural housing and direct leveraging. 800-471-5554.

National Low Income Housing Coalition’s Spring 2001 edition of The NIMBY Report covers efforts to reconcile smart growth and affordable housing. James Brashears, 202-662-1530 x226; www.nlihc.org/nimby.

Prospecting Among the Poor: Welfare Privatization by Bill Berkowitz, contains four case studies of welfare privatization efforts that show there are many problems with having for-profit companies provide services to public welfare clients. Applied Research Center, www.arc.org/welfare/prospecting_nr.html.

When Work Just Isn’t Enough: Measuring Hardships Faced by Families After Moving From Welfare to Work by Heather Boushey and Bethney Gundersen, from the Economic Policy Institute. www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/hardshipsbp.pdf

Better Schools Through Public Engagement ($20) and Schools As Entrepreneurs ($10), from Heartland Center for Leadership Development. 800-927-1115; www.heartlandcenter.info/publications.html.

Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices, by Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard, is a discussion paper from PolicyLink and the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy that outlines how residents and local governments of gentrifying neighborhoods can play a role in balancing revitalization and affordability.

Community Development Corporations and Welfare Reform: Linkages, Roles and Impacts by David J. Wright, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Michael H. Schill finds – unexpectedly – that the response of CDCs to welfare reform has been limited because they have not identified it as related to their efforts. Published by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government/State University of New York and New York University School of Law/Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.

Keeping the Door Open, a three-part publication from the Corporation for Supportive Housing, is aimed at helping employment services providers become more successful in connecting vulnerable adults to the labor market. www.csh.org.

Assets for the Poor: The Benefits of Spreading Asset Ownership from the Russell Sage Foundation investigates the importance of family wealth and the need for policies to encourage asset-building among the poor. Edited by Thomas M. Shapiro and Edward N. Wolff. 400 pp. $42.50. 800-524-6401.

Five Steps to Community Reinvestment Success, from the California Reinvestment Committee, is a manual geared toward organizers with strategic approaches to waging successful community reinvestment campaigns through the Community Reinvestment Act. $50 for corporations; $20 for nonprofits and individuals. Kalina Misi, 415-864-3980.

Fair Housing: A Guidebook for Owners and Managers of Apartments, from the National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA) and The Compass Group, LLC, covers fair housing laws affecting all multifamily apartments as well as many more specific circumstances. $35 each; discounts for volume purchases. 877-563-4605.

Taking The Initiative on Jobs & Race, from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, looks at innovations in workforce development for minority job seekers and employers. 410-547-6600; www.aecf.org.

Help Wanted: Low-Income Single Adult Job Seekers and the Programs Serving Them is a research and policy report from the Mid-America Institute on Poverty (MAIP), published by Heartland Alliance. Amy Rynell, MAIP, 312-660-1349.

Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy. Author Mark R. Warren offers ideas on how to rebuild the social capital of America’s communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. Published by Princeton University Press. 322 pp. $52.50 paper; $17.95 cloth. Dennis Manning, 609-258-2074; www.pup.princeton.edu.

Internet Resources
The redesigned Neighborhood Networks website, contains an expanded selection of tools, additional resources, funding alerts and news updates, and webcasts and events.