Download PDF/Epub Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One - Majora Carter
Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One Majora Carter shows how to end the brain drain that cripples low-income communities, mapping out a development strategy focused on encouraging talented people to stay and help lift up the community. What is a path toward wealth creation, quality of life, and happiness in low-status communities? Unfortunately, most people born in them measure their success by how far away they get. Majora Carter could have been one of them, but she chose to stay in the South Bronx.In this sure to be controversial book, Carter argues for what she calls a talent retention community development strategy, an alternative to gentrification, and to programs that ameliorate poverty without building wealth. She advocates measure like:- Providing assistance to help homeowners resist those "we pay cash for houses" fliers - Creating mixed-income housing instead of exclusively low-income housing - Mentori