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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
Part I: Setting the Framework
1Introduction and Course Overview: The Diversity of Urban Neighborhoods
2A Framework for Analyzing Urban Neighborhoods
3Neighborhoods and Community I
4Neighborhoods and Community II
5Neighborhood Diversity and the Metropolitan Community
6Community Development I: Origins and Transformations
7Community Development II: The Current Scene
8Community Organizing in the Neighborhood I
9Community Organizing in the Neighborhood II: The Ricanne Hadrian Initiative in Community Organizing

Guest Speaker: David Greenberg, PhD Candidate DUSP
Part II: Housing and Community Development
10Historic Perspective IFirst memo due
11Historic Perspective II
12Public Housing and Community Development
13Case Study: HOPE 6 in Boston

Guest Speaker: Deborah Goddard, Director of Development, Urban Edge and former Director of Development, Boston Housing Authority
14Affordable Rental Housing: Preserving the Stock
15Managing the Housing Stock

Case Study: Managing Subsidized Housing

Guest Speaker: Judy Weber, Private Consultant, Former Director of Management The Community Builders
Part III: Economic Development, Work and Jobs
16Community Economic Development: The Issues, the Record and the Debates - Part I
17Community Economic Development - Part IISecond memo due
18Sources of Capital
19Small Business Development

Guest Speaker: Joe Kresberg, President, Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
20Main Streets

Guest Speaker: Karl Seidman
21Welfare, Work and Job Training I
22Welfare, Work and Job Training II

Guest Speaker: Sarah Griffin, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation and Independent Consultant
Part IV: Beyond Housing and Economic Development
23Crime Security and Community Development
24Education and Community DevelopmentThird memo due
25Faith-based Organizations and Community Development
26Summing Up, Course Reflections etc.

 








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