David Holtzman
David Holtzman is a planner for Louisa County, Va., a freelance writer, and a Shelterforce contributing editor.
ARTICLES IN SHELTERFORCE since jan 08
- Getting from Here to There
Transit advocates and CDCs in two parts of the greater Boston
region are building cross-movement coalitions that are making
equitable transit-oriented development a part of the fight for
better transit access. - Homeownership Done Right
While the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance is helping people buy homes, their aim is to build an army of trained homeowners to engage their own neighbors in organizing and advocacy.
- Home Again
With the help of its local community development corporation, a Boston neighborhood comes to terms with its transformation as a beloved church, long a treasured part of the community is reborn as housing.
POSTS ON ROOFLINES
- 15 May 13 · To Move Forward, Richmond Must Confront Its Racist Roots
- 2 May 13 · Life Without Fossil Fuels
- 17 Apr 13 · Questioning the Core of Charlottesville’s Economy
- 3 Apr 13 · Recovery from the Grassroots
- 25 Mar 13 · Is Your Town a Parasite?
- 6 Mar 13 · Rural Life, Invisible
- 21 Feb 13 · Much Ado About Clean Air, But How About Our Clean Water?
- 7 Feb 13 · Farming With Benefits
- 22 Jan 13 · The Dollar Stores Take Their Place on the Block
- 31 Dec 12 · 8 New Year’s Resolutions (Wishes?) for the Places Where We Live
- 12 Dec 12 · News Flash: Rural Places and People are Becoming Irrelevant
- 28 Nov 12 · Sacred Places
- 13 Nov 12 · The Rural/Red Take on Reality
- 1 Nov 12 · Thoughts on the Trailer
- 17 Oct 12 · From Farm to Subdivision to Farm… or Forest
- 4 Oct 12 · In Praise of Farmer’s Markets, Despite Flaws
- 19 Sep 12 · Looking At Once Inward and Outward
- 16 Aug 12 · Underneath the Surface, a Community Fish Story
- 20 Jul 12 · The American Dream of Nowhere
- 3 Jul 12 · Come for the Mortgage, Stay for the Repairs
- 19 Jun 12 · Those Who Lived Here Before Us
- 6 Jun 12 · The Choo-Choo and the Bus
- 23 May 12 · The Raw Extraction Economy
- 8 May 12 · Preserving History with Neighborhood Character
- 22 Apr 12 · Take Me Home On (Sort Of) Country Roads
- 11 Apr 12 · Rural Food Deserts
- 28 Mar 12 · Neighbors: Faraway, So Close!
- 13 Mar 12 · The End of the Rural “Suburb?”
- 29 Feb 12 · Urban Over Here ≠ Loss of Rural Freedom Over There
- 17 Feb 12 · On Foot and Wheels, in Town and in the Country
- 2 Feb 12 · Less Pasture, More Concrete in Rural Future?
- 17 Jan 12 · High speed Internet - Hard to find in rural places
- 5 Jan 12 · At the Crossroads
- 7 Dec 11 · Tiny Houses, Big Dreams
- 18 Jan 10 · Some Thoughts On This Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- 27 Dec 09 · Wheres the Alt-City?
- 20 Oct 09 · Is it: Faster, Stimulus! Spend! Spend! or Think Before You Buy?
- 14 Sep 09 · Sometimes Vacant Land is Just Fine
- 31 Aug 09 · Green Jobs For Real?
- 11 Aug 09 · Locavores, Beware
- 2 Aug 09 · Housing as Economic Growth? Strange Idea, But Not in Massachusetts
- 13 Jul 09 · Short-Term Stimulus and Planning for the Long Term
- 21 Jun 09 · A Third Strand of Sustainable Housing
- 7 Jun 09 · Detroit as a Test Site of the Green Future
- 11 May 09 · Bringing Victims of Foreclosure Back Home
- 3 May 09 · Bring the Green to Rental Buildings
- 13 Apr 09 · Three Ways Not to Transform Parks And One That Can Work
- 6 Apr 09 · Big City Papers: Do We Even Need Them?
- 22 Mar 09 · Get Your Green On
- 22 Feb 09 · The Mystery of a Mere Idea
- 16 Feb 09 · Commuter Rails Promise
- 8 Feb 09 · Lets Take Advantage of The Bad Times
- 26 Jan 09 · Television: The Drug of the Public Realm
- 18 Jan 09 · Keep Single Family Homes in Mind
- 12 Jan 09 · Disasters in Tough Times
- 4 Jan 09 · Considering the Townhouse
- 21 Dec 08 · A Few Slightly Radical Ideas to Ponder
- 8 Dec 08 · Density Revisited
- 23 Nov 08 · Dont Put All The Dollars Into a Few Streets?
- 16 Nov 08 · The Trials of Grass-roots Community Planning
- 9 Nov 08 · Sorting Through What Sustainability Means
- 1 Nov 08 · Get Your Bike On
- 19 Oct 08 · Transient America
- 13 Oct 08 · Restructuring in the works for some CDCs
- 5 Oct 08 · Planning vs. Development: Can We Really Choose One?
- 18 Sep 08 · What Does the Financial Crisis Mean for CDCs?
- 3 Sep 08 · NIMBYism in the Big City
- 17 Aug 08 · What Responsibilities Do Institutions Have In Their Communities?
- 8 Jul 08 · Gentrification Keeps Trying to Improve its Image
- 29 Jun 08 · Bluegrass, Rodeos, and Other Signs of a Living Community
- 22 Jun 08 · Obama Talks Up Metropolitanism
- 15 Jun 08 · Make Your Streets Livable!
- 9 Jun 08 · Defining the Creative Economy People
- 3 Jun 08 · Transit-Oriented, But Affordable?
- 25 May 08 · Putnam’s “E Pluribus Unum”: Part of the Story
- 18 May 08 · Youre Gonna Change the Economy? How, Exactly?
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