[PDF] The Land Bank Revolution How Ohios Communities Fought Back Against The Foreclosure Crisis eBook

Author : Melvin Delgado
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 153816647X

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Ecologically-focused interventions have taken center stage in addressing a range of social problems. This book synthesizes the latest research and theoretical advances of these approaches to offer multiple urban green revitalization strategies for combatting gun violence that is primarily impacting African-American/Black, Asian-American, and Latinx urban communities across the nation. Solutions include the introduction of greenspaces (greening), conversion of distressed buildings and vacant lots, and other structural changes to a community. This resource provides readers with a centralized place to draw upon research findings and includes illustrative case studies. Current and future social workers and other helping professionals will be able to work more effectively with the communities of color they serve to bolster interventions and advocate against gun violence.

Author : Amy Willis
Publisher :
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2013
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How can we combat the foreclosure crisis outside of the law? The communities that are hit hardest by foreclosure tend to also have other socio-economic problems. Is this being spurred on by the consumer driver culture in America? Is there a new way to approach living the "American Dream" and what does this mean now for future home ownership?

Author : Christopher E. Herbert
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1437929273

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Analyzes data and trends in the residential housing market and reviews the academic lit. and industry press on the root causes of the current foreclosure crisis (FC). Provides a review of policy responses and recommended actions to mitigate the FC and help prevent similar crises from occurring in the future. Contents: (1) Trends in Delinquencies and Foreclosures: Regional Trends in Foreclosures; (2) Lit. Review: General Lit. on Causes of Foreclosures and Delinquencies; Lit. Assessing Causes of the Current FC; Factors Enabling Expanded Risky Lending; (3) Policy Responses to the FC: Efforts To Address Rising Foreclosures; Efforts To Reduce the Risk of High Rates of Mortgage Foreclosures in the Future; Mortgage Market Reform. Illus.

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Page : 25 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Foreclosure
ISBN :

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"Facing the worst foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression, the state of Ohio has responded by focusing on helping the individuals keep their homes. While more needs to be done in that area, including leveling the playing field of the foreclosure process, the state must direct more attention and more resources to the devastating effects that foreclosures are having on entire communities, from the urban neighborhoods of Cleveland or Cincinnati to suburban and rural communities across the state. This paper lays out a detailed, concrete series of steps by which the state can not only better help homeowners and tenants affected by foreclosure, but help stabilize its distressed neighborhoods and communities. These steps include legislative actions as well as changes to existing state programs. Recognizing the constraints on state resources, most of the steps recommended in this paper involve no cost to the state or local government, though some require modest outlays. Ultimately, if the state carries out these recommendations, it will not only benefit many thousands of Ohioans directly, but will preserve billions in property values and untold millions in state and local tax revenues that would otherwise be lost"--Abstract, p.[1].

Author : Peter Marcuse
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1804294942

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In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.