This report describes the results of the Perry Choice Neighborhood Walking Tours. The walking tours were designed to create person-to-person conversations with neighborhood residents and members of the planning team.
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The Perry Choice Neighborhood – Neighborhood Based Supportive Service Network
This report described the Perry Choice Neighborhood Supportive Service Network. The proposed PCN Supportive Services Network will provide high quality case management and service coordination for residents through a partnership with the UB School of Social Work and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority to ensure that the challenges facing residents wellbeing are met holistically and that residents receive the technical support they need to connect to appropriate services.
The Perry Choice Neighborhood Safe Neighborhood Safe Neighborhood Initiative
This report describes the Perry Choice Neighborhood – Safe Neighborhood Initiative, designed to transform the PCN into a safe and secure community.
Neighborhood Support Services Report: A Needs Assessment of the Perry Choice Neighborhood
This report provides a needs assessment of the Perry Choice Neighborhood and a comprehensive Support Services Plan for the neighborhood.
Perry Choice Neighborhood Transformation Plan
The Perry Choice Neighborhood Planning grant (PCN) produced a plan that transforms the BMHAPCN into a viable and sustainable mixed-income neighborhood that functions as a platform which enables residents to become economically secure and self-sufficient, to realize their full potential and to develop the critical consciousness and capacity that empowers them to guide the development of the community over time. To realize this outcome in practice, the Perry Choice Neighborhood planning initiative is informed by three core goals, which are viewed through the lens of neighborhood, housing, and people that inform all aspects of the planning process.
Better Schools Better Neighborhoods: An Innovative Model of Urban Revitalization and Sustainability for Joint School Construction Sites
A presentation to the Mayor of the City of Buffalo and Office of Strategic Planning that urges the rebuilding of Buffalo neighborhoods around the Joint Schools Construction Board Sites (JSCB).
The Masten District Plan
The Masten District Plan is a strategy for redeveloping Buffalo’s Masten district and transforming it into a great place to live, work, play and raise a family.
The Masten District Neighborhood Plan
A Strategy for Redeveloping the Masten District and Transforming it into a great place to live, work, play and raise a family.
From Theory to Practice: The Quest to Radically Reconstruct Buffalo’s Inner-City Neighborhoods
The Inner City Transformation Project (ICTP) was launched in 2001 to develop a model of community development that can be applied to the radical reconstruction of distressed neighborhoods in metropolitan Buffalo and similar size cities in the United States. The project is based on the assumption that distressed urban neighborhoods now represent the epicenter of racism and social class inequality in the United States and that the quest to dismantle racism must start with the radical reconstruction of these neighborhoods.
Black in Buffalo: A late-century progress report
In this essay commissioned by The Buffalo News, Henry Louis Taylor takes a look at the struggles of community building and neighborhood development within Buffalo’s East Side.