Zócalo Public SquareIt Takes a Fight – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 It Takes a Fight https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/02/08/it-takes-a-fight/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/02/08/it-takes-a-fight/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:01:14 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=44749 When Americans discuss solutions to the housing crisis, the conversation often turns to big players—the Obama administration, Congress, the Federal Reserve, the banks. But foreclosures happen at the local level, and they have devastated some communities. Even with a problem as big and complicated as the foreclosure crisis, individual citizens can ease the damage to their communities. In advance of a Zócalo event in Phoenix, “How Do We Rebuild Neighborhoods After Foreclosures?”, we asked experts in community-building and real estate: What, if anything, can a person living on a street of foreclosed houses do to help the neighborhood bounce back?

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