Check out this article I wrote for Yes! Magazine looking at the role that community land trusts can play in helping people to build wealth. Many thanks to Joyce Fidalgo, Ron Stokes, and Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup for sharing their stories and to Tony Hernandez and Eliza Parad of Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, John Davis ofContinue reading Land Trusts Offer Houses People With Lower Incomes Can Afford—And a Stepping Stone to Lasting Wealth
Land Banking and Community Land Trusts: Strategies for Reclaiming Philly’s Vacant Properties
Philadelphia recently established a land bank, an increasingly popular tool for Rust Belt cities to address struggles with post-industrial vacancy. While land banking can help facilitate the process by which vacant land is put back into productive use, it can also perpetuate cycles of uneven development and disinvestment if land only goes to the highestContinue reading Land Banking and Community Land Trusts: Strategies for Reclaiming Philly’s Vacant Properties
Fall 2015 Tufts UEP Practicum: Community Control and Ownership Strategies for Boston
Community partners and graduate students are invited to participate in a new course for Fall 2015, the Tufts UEP Practicum (UEP293-09). This is a community-university co-learning opportunity that builds on the Practical Visionaries Workshop started in 2011. The theme of this Fall’s Practicum is Community Control and Ownership Strategies for Boston. Our primary partner isContinue reading Fall 2015 Tufts UEP Practicum: Community Control and Ownership Strategies for Boston
Land, Wealth and Community Control: A Community/University Co-Learning Session on Race and Community Economies
Land is a source of wealth and well-being. Communities of color in Boston have long struggled for control over land and the wealth generated on it. On May 12th, Tufts Practical Visionaries Workshop, Center for Economic Democracy, and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative hosted a day long workshop to explore how to build more just, sustainable, and democraticContinue reading Land, Wealth and Community Control: A Community/University Co-Learning Session on Race and Community Economies
Available online: Solidarity Economy in Massachusetts
Our article on emerging solidarity economies in Massachusetts by Penn Loh and Boone Shear is available online in the journal Community Development. Use this link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15575330.2015.1021362#abstract. Solidarity Economy (SE) is a movement that can build power within and across scales and win supportive policy and public resources. Using the development of SE in Boston, Worcester,Continue reading Available online: Solidarity Economy in Massachusetts
Solidarity Economy in Massachusetts – forthcoming article
This manuscript on emerging solidarity economies in Massachusetts by Penn Loh and Boone Shear will be forthcoming in the journal Community Development. Solidarity Economy (SE) is a movement that can build power within and across scales and win supportive policy and public resources. Using the development of SE in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, Massachusetts asContinue reading Solidarity Economy in Massachusetts – forthcoming article
How One Boston Neighborhood Stopped Gentrification in Its Tracks
YES! Magazine posted on its website the article I wrote about community land trusts for its Winter 2015 issue. See it here: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/cities-are-now/how-one-boston-neighborhood-stopped-gentrification-in-its-tracks
CERO Coop’s Direct Public Offering featured on #GRITtv
CERO Cooperative is featured in this half hour GRITtv show on local investment and moving your money. [CERO segment starts at 18:56] Description: Why is it so hard to invest your money locally? Grassroots activists trying to build economic alternatives in the US encourage investing in the businesses in your neighborhood, instead of in far-offContinue reading CERO Coop’s Direct Public Offering featured on #GRITtv
Penn Loh interviewed on Union Sq (Somerville) Community Benefits Agreement
Check out this Somerville Community Access Television news story on January 28, 2015 on the Union Square community benefits agreement process. I was interviewed to explain the basics of community benefits agreements.
Planning for a Community Food Hub in Dudley
Through the recently launched Dudley Real Food Hub, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), and The Food Project have been working alongside residents, gardeners, and food businesses to grow and strengthen Dudley’s community food economy. Anchored by a 10,000 square foot greenhouse owned by DSNI’s land trust and operatedContinue reading Planning for a Community Food Hub in Dudley