All User Comments for: Rebuilding Neighborhoods, Restoring Health
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| Forclosures in Alameda County | Thomas Schlenker | Lengthy and sophisticated report on forclosures in Alameda County that identifies census block tracts in Oakland with highest forclosure and pending forclosure rates and demonstrates, by means of tenant interviews, both individual and community health impacts. Most impressive is what high forclosures rates do to neighborhoods: property values decreased by 60-70%, board ups become drug houses, increased crime/violence, social cohesion destroyed. Various macro-economic and regulatory recommendatins offered but what is most convincing is the need for neighbhorhood-based organization and response/ |
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