Libby Benton is the Senior Counsel to National Initiatives at the Center for Community Progress. As a sharp thinker with outstanding legal acumen, she works with the…
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Sara Toering is a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress (Community Progress), America’s nonprofit leader for turning “Vacant Spaces into Vibrant Places.” Toering currently works with…
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Toni L. Griffin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Community Progress. Griffin is a founder of urbanAC LLC, based in New…
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Creative placemaking is the practice of enhancing a neighborhood’s quality of life through arts, culture, and intentional community development. This practice can take many forms, like visual…
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I’m in love. When you wake up every day knowing that what you do helps improve people’s lives and where they live, it’s one of the best…
Read More »Originally posted by Alan Mallach in National Housing Institute’s Rooflines Blog, May 14, 2013. Community Progress Senior Fellow, Alan Mallach, discusses the basic principles of neighborhood stabilization…
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I finally got to see Detropia last week, the acclaimed documentary filmed in Detroit that’s been making the rounds of the film festivals and the indie houses. As someone who’s pretty…
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There are many reasons that Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, and some have already been explored by others on Rooflines. Detroit’s problems have accumulated over decades, and are a…
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Voters across the nation stream to the polls today in our annual democratic exercise, weighing the promises from candidates in how best to address some of our…
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Cross-posted from Next City, this article is one of a ten-part series inspired by the 2015 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference. In what’s being widely hailed as a gigantic victory for civil…
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