This intersector initiative at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, WA targets housing instability and its detrimental effects on children’s education.
Last month was the grand opening of the Weinberg Early Childhood Center in East Baltimore, part of an ambitious community revitalization and education initiative.
The six-story, $11 million Temple Place Apartments will house 40 one- and two-bedroom apartments for low- and moderate-income residents when it’s completed in 2015.
In this video, Carol Naughton, Senior Vice President of Purpose Built Communities, speaks about the intersector collaboration that revitalized East Lake Meadows.
After decades of failed projects and programs, the question of how to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty led to the realization that the problem was too big to be solved by one sector alone.
While the possibilities for revitalizing Detroit are nearly endless, Write A House focused on one thing – matching writers with houses – and enlisted partners who shared that vision.