Center for Community Progress
AUGUST 24, 2023
Predatory lending in the leadup to the 2008 mortgage crisis overwhelmingly targeted Black and Brown people who were promised that homeownership was the ticket to building generational wealth. The global financial crisis in 2008 was also a major trigger for many communities.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 3, 2024
One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia.
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