• Community Land Trust is planting the roots of housing affordability

    Initiated by area residents as part of the 11th Street Bridge Park equitable development plan, The Douglass Community Land Trust has become an important part of the housing affordability toolkit in Washington, DC.
    The 11th Street Bridge Park’s equitable development plan was created in 2015 in response to community feedback to ensure that existing residents and small businesses near the Bridge Park would continually benefit from this new civic space. To address a concern over gentrification and displacement,...Read more

  • Revitalizing a stigmatized neighborhood

    El Punto Neighborhood Revitalization is a comprehensive, large-scale effort to lift up an immigrant enclave in Salem, MA. North Shore Community Development Coalition won a 2022 Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
    A community-driven initiative has revitalized a disadvantaged neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts, through public art, affordable housing, historic rehabilitation, and wide-ranging community projects. The transformation of The Point, a 50-acre immigrant neighborhood with a large Dominican...Read more

  • Bringing the best parts of town to a disadvantaged area

    Church Hill North—Armstrong Renaissance invests in a neglected Richmond neighborhood to “remap the geography of segregation.” Torti Gallas + Partners won a Merit Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of CNU's 2022 Charter Awards.
    Church Hill North—Armstrong Renaissance is a 22-acre extension of a disinvested neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, addressing long-standing social issues while respecting the city’s proud architectural heritage. The design guarantees a high quality of urban space in a development that is...Read more

  • Tackling concentrated poverty, without displacement

    Westside Evolves is a master plan to deal with the 20th Century model of public housing in Chattanooga, Tennessee. EJP Consulting Group won a Merit Award in the Emerging Project category of CNU's 2022 Charter Awards.
    Chattanooga is launching a highly ambitious plan to transform Westside, an impoverished neighborhood with the highest concentration of public housing in the city. Westside Evolves tackles the challenge of concentrated poverty, while ensuring little or no displacement, through a $680 million, 10-...Read more