The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.
Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.
A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.
We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
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