ORDERING INFORMATION
Copies of Integrating Social Equity and Growth Management: Linking
Community Land Trusts and Smart Growth,1 can be purchased for $10 plus
$3 shipping, from the Institute for Community Economics. To order,
contact:
Michelle Lancto
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Springfield MA, 01105-1331
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michelle@iceclt.org.
Integrating Social Equity and Smart Growth: An Overview of Tools, is now
available as a PDF file on ICE’s website: www.iceclt.org.
Both of these documents, plus a related case study focused on Portland, OR,
can also be found at http://www.knowledgeplex.org/.
About the Author
Tasha Harmon is a writer and strategic planning consultant living in Portland, Oregon.
She spent seven years as the executive director of the Community Development Network,
(the association of community development corporations in Portland), and five directing
the Center for Popular Economics in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is a founder of the
Coalition for a Livable Future a 10 year old association of over 50 organizations
promoting a compact, equitable, and sustainable future for the Portland metropolitan
region. She helped to create the Portland Community Land Trust and served on its board
for its first four years. She is a founding member of the Northwest Community Land
Trust Coalition, and has served on the steering committee for the Community Land Trust
Network and the board of the Institute for Community Economics. In addition to this
pair of papers, Tasha is the author of articles on the relationship between smart growth
and housing affordability appearing in the NIMBY Report of the National Low Income
Housing Coalition, Connections, the Journal of the Coalition for a Livable Future, and
The Planners Network Journal. She speaks nationally on smart growth and housing
affordability, and on the community land trust model. She has a BA from Hampshire
College, and a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
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