Forefront Archives

  • 05/27/2013 – Kate Hodal

    Slum Lab

    Manila’s Quest to Build a Better Informal Settlement

    • Learn how different groups in Metro Manila are working to reverse the city's long history of chaotic and ineffective relocations.
    • Tour an entrepreneurial farm where resettled slum dwellers live communally and cultivate their own start-up businesses.
    • Find out how Habitat for Humanity is fashioning itself as a broker between banks, government and settlers to acquire land for slum dwellers.

  • 06/03/2013 – Mariana Ionova

    The $80-a-Week, 60-Square-Foot Housing Solution That’s Also Totally Illegal

    Reexamining the SRO

    • Learn about the tricky legal ground housing officials must navigate when trying to shut down illegal apartment conversions.
    • Find out why local leaders from New York to Seattle want to allow housing developers to build even smaller than they already do.
    • Meet New Yorkers who would have nowhere to go without SROs.

  • 06/10/2013 – Jennifer Bradley and Bruce Katz

    The Post-Hero Economy

    Learning to Lead Through Networks

    • Learn how the Fund for Our Urban Future is bringing digital-age manufacturing to formerly industrial Northeast Ohio.
    • Read why the 21st-century global economy makes regional networking and collaboration necessary for strong and healthy metro areas.
    • Find out why the age of the lone economic genius is over.