Community redevelopment
This article is part of a multimedia project that details community initiatives in the Washington D.C. area to combat food deserts, or low income neighborhoods without access to healthy food, as part of graduate capstone class at Virginia Commonwealth University. Every day in the District of Columbia, nearly one in eight households struggle with hunger [...]
This presentation is part of a multimedia project that details community initiatives in the Washington D.C. area to combat food deserts, or low income neighborhoods without access to healthy food, as part of graduate capstone class at Virginia Commonwealth University. Yes! Organic Market owner Gary Cha has opened six organic grocery stores in the Washington [...]
This video is part of a multimedia project details community initiatives in the Washington D.C. area to combat food deserts, or low income neighborhoods without access to healthy food, as part of graduate capstone class at Virginia Commonwealth University. All for the Common Good from Maureen Linke on Vimeo. Common Good City Farm (formerly called [...]
This slideshow is part of a multimedia project that details community initiatives in the Washington D.C. area to combat food deserts, or low income neighborhoods without access to healthy food, as part of graduate capstone class at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ward 8 Farmers Market is a community and local farmer based grassroots market formed as [...]
Afraid to leave their homes many Hispanic members of Reverend Antonio Masongo’s congregation no longer attend services at Ministerio Pentecostal Central in Norcross, Georgia. With frequent roadblocks, and police stops parishioners are not filling the pews. “We have a lot of people that are afraid to drive to church,” Masongo said. “They don’t want to [...]
Austell is a small town located about 18 miles from downtown Atlanta in Cobb County. Seventeen counties were declared a state of emergency by the Georgia governor following the flooding in September of 2009. However, for its size, Austell was perhaps the most greatly impacted leaving many homeless, displaced, and in thousands of dollars of [...]
Church Hill resident John Murden occasionally peeks into his neighbor’s backyard to monitor suspicious happenings. by Maureen Linke Like many residents in Church Hill, Murden lives next to a vacant property which often attracts illegal activity.
Rising foreclosure rates, unemployment and the economic downturn all have contributed to the increasing number of homeless families in Virginia and across the U.S. A recent report by the Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness states that 42 percent of individuals who experience homelessness are persons in families – the fastest grow sect of the homeless [...]
Connect with me on:
Design by Graph Paper Press. All content © 2012 by Maureen Linke