This international project was an effort to document existing successful alternatives to the reinvestment and displacement cycle in communities. We developed a curriculum that can be used either by faculty and students in the university classroom or by community leaders and residents in city and suburban neighborhoods.
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This study seeks to provide the Brighton Park community a greater understanding of the issues and trends in housing, economic and demographic changes in the community. Primarily, this study seeks to identify the challenges and opportunities facing the community.
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The following four essays were written in response to the need for frank and open discussion regarding the future of affordable housing in the Chicago region. These essays came about through a collaborative project of Roosevelt University’s Institute for Metropolitan Affairs and the Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago, and their community partners called Housing Affordability Research Consortium (HARC).
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CURL did a survey of diverse communities around the country. It was an update to the 1998 research on sustainable and stable diverse communities in the United States (The Emergence of Stable Racially and Ethnically Diverse Urban Communities: A Case Study of Neighborhoods in Nine U.S. Cities). A presentation was made at Colorlines Conference at the Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University in 2003.
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CURL worked with the Southwest Organizing Project (and their membership organizations), Neighborhood Housing Services (Chicago Lawn/Gage Park) and the Greater Southwest Development Corporation and examined the causes, effects, and potential solutions of home mortgage foreclosures in the Chicago Lawn and Gage Park neighborhoods.
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Since its founding in 1985, Deborah’s Place has provided shelter, food, resources, and support to women in Chicago who are homeless or formerly homeless. Listening to the voices of current and former participants, staff, volunteers, and board members, this report attempts to capture the essence of the relationships of those women who built or participated in Deborah’s Place.
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The committee comprised of community-based organization leaders, citywide agency representatives, and university researchers. It built an independent, rigorous research database to inform public policy in the area of housing for extremely low-income families in the Chicago area. This was a joint project of CURL and the Roosevelt University Institute for Metropolitan Affairs and was funded by the Woods Fund of Chicago.
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In a time of major CHA restructuring, the agency will no longer provide direct social services to residents. Instead, there are plans to refer residents to neighborhood agencies for services that have traditionally been offered at CHA sites in order to determine resident need and availability to existing services beyond CHA. This study sought to examine access those services.
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This project was a participatory research evaluation with tenants at Cabrini Green to provide voice in the redevelopment of Cabrini under the Chicago Housing Authority Transformation Project (Hope VI) move to mixed income housing. Through the use of a survey of current residents, the project built a demographic profile of Cabrini households. This provided a baseline for the planning process.
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