Case Study: Community activists and big developers partner to fight poverty
Ford Foundation Report
Winter 2004
by Peter Ross Range
...Working in alliance with other community organizations, local unions and activist religious groups, they have also greatly expanded the concept of "accountable development," which LAANE's executive director, Madeline Janis-Aparicio, explains this way: "If public money is used to subsidize private development, then the developer has to guarantee community benefits like good jobs, affordable housing, child care, all the things that communities need." Read the whole story...
Winter 2004
by Peter Ross Range
...Working in alliance with other community organizations, local unions and activist religious groups, they have also greatly expanded the concept of "accountable development," which LAANE's executive director, Madeline Janis-Aparicio, explains this way: "If public money is used to subsidize private development, then the developer has to guarantee community benefits like good jobs, affordable housing, child care, all the things that communities need." Read the whole story...
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