Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have To Move Out Of Your Neighborhood To Live In A Better OneISBN13:9781523000296ISBN10:1523000295Author:Carter, Majora (Author)Description:Majora Carter Shows How To End The Brain Drain That Cripples Low-Income Communities, Mapping Out A Development Strategy Focused On Encouraging Talented People To Stay And Help Lift Up The Community What Is A Path Toward Wealth Creation, Quality Of Life, And Happiness In Low-Status Communities? Unfortunately, Most People Born In Them Measure Their Success By How Far Away They Get Majora Carter Could Have Been One Of Them, But She Chose To Stay In The South Bronx In This Sure To Be Controversial Book, Carter Argues For What She Calls A Talent Retention Community Development Strategy, An Alternative To Gentrification, And To Programs That Ameliorate Poverty Without Building Wealth She Advocates Measure Like: - Providing Assistance To Help Homeowners Resist Those We Pay Cash For Houses Fliers - Creating Mixed-Income Housing Instead Of Exclusively Low-Income Housing - Mentoring People From Low-Status Communities To Use The Tools Of Real Estate Development To Preserve And Strengthen Them This Is A Profoundly Personal Book Carter Talks About Seeing Her Brother Killed By The Police, Her Struggles As A Woman Of Color Confronting The Mostly Male And Pale Real Estate And Nonprofit And Philanthropic Establishments, And Is Candid About Her Failures As Well As Her Successes It Is A Powerful, Heartfelt Rethinking Of Poverty, Economic Development, And Individual And Family Success Binding:Hardcover, HardcoverPublisher:Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublication Date:2022-02-01Weight:1.25 lbsDimensions:Number of Pages:216Language:English
Price: 16.94 USD
Location: USA
End Time: 2024-10-21T22:42:47.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Reclaiming Your Community : You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Majora Carter
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Entrepreneurship, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Social History
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Business & Economics, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
