Northside Initiative Blog
We have a front-row seat to this community's resilience and progress, and are honored to share these stories with the Greater Birmingham area and beyond. For media inquiries, please email stories@northsideinitiative.com.
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Revitalization is only revitalization if the people who held the neighborhood together get to stay in it. That single sentence shapes almost everything we do — how we underwrite a development, how we set an income mix, and who we call first when a legacy homeowner's roof fails.
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Before there was a strategic plan, there were porches. Residents told us what they needed long before anyone wrote it into a grant application.
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Our commercial corridors do not need to be discovered. They need capital, customers, and a landlord who answers the phone.
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A building is a promise. A program is how you keep it. Here is how we think about the difference between the two.
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City hall, the housing authority, and a block club do not speak the same language. Translation is part of the job.
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You cannot invest your way past trust. Everything durable we have built here started with a resident who decided to show up again.
Read MoreConcentrated poverty on the Northside was engineered — by redlining, by the interstate, by plant closures. It can be un-engineered the same way: deliberately.
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