Neighborhood Development
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Featured Publications
Responsible Redevelopment: Relocation Road Map 1.0
2008
Involuntary relocation is a disruptive and traumatic process that intensifies the challenges and risks faced by vulnerable families. This guide outlines some of the major issues and challenges to be faced when low-income families and children are displaced involuntarily by redevelopment projects and suggests some alternative standards and practices. This Road Map, which will be updated periodically, draws on the experience of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and others who seek to promote innovative and more beneficial relocation practices that lead to better choices and outcomes for residents.
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Eminent Domain: Implications for Community Redevelopment Efforts
2007
This is the first in a series of planned monographs from the Neighborhood Development unit presenting Casey’s point of view and efforts around this work. This report provides a summary of the presentations and discussions held at a September 2006 consultative convened by Casey, entitled “The Eminent Domain Debate.”
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Community Benefits Agreements: The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool
2007
This is the second monograph in a series produced by the Casey Foundation to focus thought and attention on the use of responsible redevelopment practices. This report provides a summary of a consultative session on community benefits agreements that took place in May 2007.
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Responsible Redevelopment: Relocation Road Map 1.0
2008
Involuntary relocation is a disruptive and traumatic process that intensifies the challenges and risks faced by vulnerable families. This guide outlines some of the major issues and challenges to be faced when low-income families and children are displaced involuntarily by redevelopment projects and suggests some alternative standards and practices. This Road Map, which will be updated periodically, draws on the experience of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and others who seek to promote innovative and more beneficial relocation practices that lead to better choices and outcomes for residents.
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Casey in Seattle: Jobs Initiative Brightens Outlook for Low-Wage Workers
2007
Seattle was the home of UPS founder Jim Casey and his siblings, who created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in honor of their mother and committed it to serving disadvantaged kids. This publication features some of the Casey projects and partnerships that reflect that commitment, including Seattle Jobs Initiative, a decade-long effort to link low-income men and women with a living wage; Making Connections White Center, which is showing us new ways communities and neighborhood residents can lead efforts to improve tough neighborhoods; and Thrive by Five, a public-private partnership that promises to greatly improve, expand, and promote early childhood education in the state.
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Casey in Baltimore: Creating Opportunities for Better Paying Jobs and Financial Security for Families
2007
Helping people move into good jobs so they can build financial security for their families is a cornerstone of the Casey Foundation’s work in our hometown city of Baltimore. This newsletter focuses attention on work to promote family economic success by working with employers, service providers, and key industries such as health care, construction, and biotechnical laboratories. It offers inspiring stories from partnerships to provide job skills, job readiness, career coaching, supportive services for families, help claiming tax credits and building savings and assets, and easing the reentry of former prisoners into the community.
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Casey in Baltimore: Supporting Nonprofits that Help Children and Families
2007
In relocating to Baltimore in 1994, the Foundation chose a city that exemplified challenges we’re working to address nationwide to help children and families whose odds of success are compromised by poverty and other difficult circumstances. At the same time, the city’s rich history and resilient population offer great inspiration and valuable lessons learned. This newsletter showcases public, private, nonprofit, and community partnerships to promote responsible redevelopment; provide constructive activities and opportunities for young people; support young fathers; build community leadership; use data to spur change; and help prepare children for school success.
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Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: A Handbook for State and Local Leaders, Fact Sheet
2007
This fact sheet highlights the main points of the full handbook "Increasing the Availability of Affordable Homes: A Handbook for State and Local Leaders."
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