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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

Majora Carter

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Description:Majora Carter shows how to end the brain drain that cripples low-income communities, mapping out a development strategy focused on encouraging talented people to stay and help lift up the community. What is a path toward wealth creation, quality of life, and happiness in low-status communities? Unfortunately, most people born in them measure their success by how far away they get. Majora Carter could have been one of them, but she chose to stay in the South Bronx.In this sure to be controversial book, Carter argues for what she calls a talent retention community development strategy, an alternative to gentrification, and to programs that ameliorate poverty without building wealth. She advocates measure like:- Providing assistance to help homeowners resist those "we pay cash for houses" fliers - Creating mixed-income housing instead of exclusively low-income housing - Mentoring people from low-status communities to use the tools of real estate development to preserve and strengthen themThis is a profoundly personal book. Carter talks about seeing her brother killed by the police, her struggles as a woman of color confronting the mostly "male and pale" real estate and nonprofit and philanthropic establishments, and is candid about her failures as well as her successes. It is a powerful, heartfelt rethinking of poverty, economic development, and individual and family success.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One. To get started finding Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Majora Carter shows how to end the brain drain that cripples low-income communities, mapping out a development strategy focused on encouraging talented people to stay and help lift up the community. What is a path toward wealth creation, quality of life, and happiness in low-status communities? Unfortunately, most people born in them measure their success by how far away they get. Majora Carter could have been one of them, but she chose to stay in the South Bronx.In this sure to be controversial book, Carter argues for what she calls a talent retention community development strategy, an alternative to gentrification, and to programs that ameliorate poverty without building wealth. She advocates measure like:- Providing assistance to help homeowners resist those "we pay cash for houses" fliers - Creating mixed-income housing instead of exclusively low-income housing - Mentoring people from low-status communities to use the tools of real estate development to preserve and strengthen themThis is a profoundly personal book. Carter talks about seeing her brother killed by the police, her struggles as a woman of color confronting the mostly "male and pale" real estate and nonprofit and philanthropic establishments, and is candid about her failures as well as her successes. It is a powerful, heartfelt rethinking of poverty, economic development, and individual and family success.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One. To get started finding Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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