Themes: Community Ownership

Through 2017 and 2018, the Parkdale People’s Economy has developed a Community Benefits Framework to build a proactive response to the rise of developments and investments in the Parkdale neighbourhood…

Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill argue…

This research report explores how progressive social agencies and non-profits (including legal clinics) can support community organizing pursuing the aims of the Right to the City (R2C) and Right to Housing (R2H)…

We’re delighted to present Helena Norberg-Hodge’s new book, Local is Our Future. This book connects the dots between our social, economic, ecological and spiritual crises, revealing how a systemic shift…

In light of the growing urgency for, and national commitment to a de‐carbonised economy combined with the need for local economic drivers and community resiliency, community energy offers a win‐win‐win…

If the 34 million American households of color resided in a single state, their household electricity demand would exceed that of all the residential, commercial, and industrial users in California, the…

Following decades of under-investment, much of our community infrastructure is in urgent need of renewal. Schools and hospitals in disrepair, the need for more long-term care beds for our aging…

Root to Fruit: Empowerment Economics and Community Growth at Chicago’s HANA Center lifts up The HANA Center, and its cutting edge approach to financial capability which is shaped by its…

Exploring strategies for combating displacement, expanding ownership, and building community wealth A historical legacy of displacement and exclusion, firmly rooted in racism and discriminatory public policy, has fundamentally restricted access…

The essence of Community-led Development (CLD) is working together in a place to create and achieve locally-owned visions and goals.  Rather than being a model or service, CLD is a planning…

This report summarizes the experience, models and tools, results, challenges, lessons and prospects of the University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation (UWCRC). Established by the University of Winnipeg’s Board of…

Community initiatives are notoriously difficult to evaluate. This is because neighborhoods are complex and it is hard to untangle and measure causal outcome drivers among the economic, demographic, and institutional…