The Soul of the Neighborhood
By Alice Shabecoff and Paul Brophy
Community-based organizations do more than build houses, they rebuild the social fabric. Here's how and why.

Empowering Redevelopment: Toward a Different CDC
By Randy Stoecker
Every neighborhood doesn't need a CDC. Instead we should strengthen high-capacity development organizations and give residents more control.

Citywide CDCs
By Peter Levavi
Two mature community development organizations have found a way to profit from their development experience by offering services to understaffed CDCs.

There Goes the Neighborhood? By Edward G. Goetz (Available by fax only.)
Subsidized multi-family housing projects don't harm neighborhoods. In fact, these projects can improve an area's value, if they're done by nonprofit community groups.

National People's Action By Edward G. Goetz (Available by fax only.)
For 25 years, this grassroots organization has brought people in power to the table with neighborhood activists. They've done it with passion, determination, and "in-your-face" protest.