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Mayor hails first fruit of foreclosure fight 1/19/2012
Rahm Emanuel tours West Humboldt rehab and explains the city’s Micro-Market approach 
Raising up teachers in your backyard 11/21/2011

'Grow Your Own' grads can tell students: “I went to this school.  I sat in your seat.”

Foregoing foreclosures 9/8/2011
Pilot program due this fall aims to buy and renegotiate mortgages so working families are not foreclosed
Points of light amid foreclosure funk 8/2/2011

Failed mortgages continue to dog Chicago neighborhoods, but new or improved programs show promise  

NCP and the 2010 Census 3/3/2011

Most shrank, some steadied, but all NCP neighborhoods can learn much from 2010 Census data  

10 Commandments of a good community tour 2/1/2011
A how-to guide for putting your neighborhood on the map.
Who benefits from neighborhood tours? Everyone. 2/1/2011
NCP Foreclosure Response Fund:
Lessons learned, more work ahead
11/19/2010
Local leadership developed “best practices” for counseling borrowers and negotiating with lenders through NCP's Foreclosure Response Fund. Now it’s a matter of scaling up … way up.
Ill wind spreads foreclosure nightmare 5/17/2010
Working-class neighborhoods in Chicago and beyond continue to be clobbered by foreclosures as unemployment spreads and many mortgage lenders fail to cooperate with borrowers seeking to modify unaffordable loans.
Laying a stable foundation 2/25/2010
Barely a year after the city got word it was getting $55.2 million in first-round federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding, the City of Chicago and its non-profit program manager, Mercy Portfolio Services (MPS), have created a nimble system for buying and recycling hundreds of foreclosed homes and apartment buildings.

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