The emails show a developer scripting quotes from a grateful new tenant; a mayoral aide transforming a corporate press release into a governmental statement; and a lack of support from affordable housing advocates who once strongly backed a Brooklyn megaproject.
At-Risk Community Services, the nonprofit advising the Citywide Council of Presidents in its dealings with the mayor, Council and governor, was only founded in November. But its parent organization has trod a long and successful—if occasionally bumpy—road.
Through the Civil War and Jim Crow, depression and boom, redlining and deregulation, one Black family near the historic Weeksville settlement managed to preserve its hold on the family property. Until it didn’t.
The journey of the Vernon C. Bain began in 1987 in New Orleans at a time of high crime and few options for the city. Neighbors near its current Mott Haven docking hope it sails into the sunset soon.
An oral history project captures all the nuance and depth of a neighborhood that briefly moved in and then out of the media spotlight during the run up to its 2016 rezoning.
Learn from defeat. Think big. Follow the money. And organize, organize, organize.
A scheme to replace shanties with newly constructed housing for the poor was undermined by bad economics and a lack of trust.
After apartheid, many Blacks left South Africa’s townships in a search for a better life in the big city. Now they see government, landlords and private-security firms banding together to drive them out.
He didn’t break it. But he took responsibility for getting it fixed.
Redevelopment plans in Nigeria’s largest city have targeted informal waterfront settlements where tens of thousands of people have lived for decades. The first story in a series about displacement and its opponents around the world.
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