Reclaiming Your Community You Dont Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
- Building mixed-income instead of low-income housing to create a diverse and robust economic ecosystem
- Developing vibrant "third spaces"--restaurants, bookstores, places like Carter's Boogie Down Grind Cafe--to keep people and dollars in the community
- Showing homeowners how to maximize the value of their property so they can resist selling out and build generational wealth.
This is a profoundly personal book. Carter is candid about her success and setbacks, and her struggles as a woman of color confronting the mostly "male and pale" real estate and nonprofit and philanthropic establishments. It is a powerful rethinking of poverty, economic development, and the meaning of success.
Publisher Name | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | SOC |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 1523000295 |
Isbn 13 | 9781523000296 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.00" H x 00.00" L x 00.00" W |
Page Count | 216 |
Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award-winning broadcaster from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the nonprofit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx from 2001 onward before entering the private sector in 2008 with the Majora Carter Group. In 2017, she launched the Boogie Down Grind, a hip-hop-themed specialty coffee and craft beer spot and the first commercial third space in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx since the mid-1980s.