To learn more about Harry Smith’s past and current community development work, check out the following articles:
Mattapan Farm’s New Owners Mark Change with their Neighbors, Dorchester Reporter, 6/20/24
Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward, Nonprofit Quarterly, 4/10/24
How a Denver Neighborhood Came Together to Buy their First Community-Owned Green Space, Denver 7 ABC, 3/4/24
Owning Our Neighborhood: A Community Organizing Story from Boston, Nonprofit Quarterly, 10/11/23
The Neighborhood that got it Right: How Upham’s Corner Became Wealthier, not Whiter, Boston Globe, 3/21/23
Tierra Colectiva Land Trust Increases Housing Units, Colorado Community Media, 1/15/23
JP’s Blessed Sacrament May See New Life as Affordable Housing, Performance Space, Boston Globe, 9/4/22
Somerville Community Land Trust Acquires First Affordable Homes, Somerville Patch, 9/1/22
Activists Press Wu to Pause Dorchester Bay City Review, Dorchester Reporter, 5/10/22
Housing Activists Seek to Expand Land Trusts, Bay State Banner, 4/14/22
Five affordable homes coming to Globeville Elyria-Swansea community, Denverite, 12/9/21
At Humphreys Street Studios in Dorchester, Organizing Leads to Action to Support Working Artist-Tenants, Boston Globe, 10/20/21
Resident Advisory Council Awards $100,400 in Community Impact Fund Grants, 9/15/01
JPNDC Completes Strategic Plan: Raising Funds to Create Center for Equity and Prosperity for Boston Families, Jamaica Plain Gazette, 7/23/21
How a Small Farm in Mattapan Fed its Community During the Pandemic, WGBH, 7/14/21
Somervillle Community Land Trust Releases Strategic Business Plan, June 2021
Pending Sale of Dorchester Studios Awakens Fear of Artist Displacement, WBUR News, 5/13/21
Apartments for homeless to be built in Jamaica Plain after lawsuit over parking settled with Pine Street Inn, Boston Globe, 5/10/21
Boston Neighborhood CLT Acquires First Two Properties as a CLT, 5/5/21
Baltimore Land Trusts Plug Away at Vision for Development without Displacement, Next City, 4/6/21
City Announces Community Land Trust Awards, City of Baltimore DHCD, 3/24/21
$8-million grant aimed at helping 2 Providence ZIP codes, Providence Journal, 12/2/20
New Leadership for Nubian Square, Bay State Banner, 6/3/20
ZBA Approves Pine Street Inn Supportive Housing Proposal, Jamaica Plain Gazette, 3/12/20
Non-profit Acquiring, Renovating Abandoned Homes in NE Baltimore, WJZ CBS Baltimore, 1/15/20
Boston One Step Closer to a Luxury Real Estate Transfer Tax- Counterpunch, 12/19/19
Baltimore Advocates Keep Up the Housing Demands- Next City, 8/1/19
Think Tank Sees Peril in Boston Luxury Towers- Commonwealth Magazine, 9/10/18
Boston’s Latin Quarter Receiving $100k National Endowment for the Arts Grant- Jamaica Plain News, 5/22/18
How the City Plans to Beat Gentrification in Upham’s Corner- Boston Globe, 2/11/18
Chinatown Activists Look to Establish Housing Sanctuary in Booming Real Estate Market - WBUR, 5/23/17
Coalition eyes ‘land trusts’ as boost for affordable housing - Dorchester Reporter, 5/5/16
A blueprint for development without displacement in Baltimore - Baltimore Brew, 1/29/16
Creating Arts Villages in the City- It Takes an Ecosystem- WBUR The Artery, 5/27/15
Trust and Transformation in a Roxbury Neighborhood- Boston Globe, 1/24/14