Reinventing Communities mission is to empower individuals to take ownership of their communities, to create new markets within those communities that provide opportunities for affordable home ownership and asset development, and then to invest the benefits from home ownership back into local communities. Reinventing Communities accomplishes this in three steps –
Reinventing Communities Mission
1. Empowers workers to increase their incomes and resources.
2. Creates new housing markets that lower barriers and encourage home ownership.
3. Invests benefits from increased incomes and assets back into communities at the neighborhood, municipal, and regional levels.
About Reinventing Communities
In collaboration with local stakeholders, Reinventing Communities develops programs to maximize workers’ incomes and assets by finding low- and moderate-income people financial homes that won’t impose a “poverty tax” on people struggling to get by. By avoiding payday loans, accelerate tax refund interest, and check cashing fees, we help low and moderate-wage workers create discretionary resources.
Reinventing Communities develops locally-based models for affordable home ownership. Reinventing Communities focuses on new markets for home ownership such as Tiny House Communities and Rent-to-Own Cooperatives. These models create new affordable housing opportunities for individuals and their families, which in turn help reinvigorate neighborhoods and larger communities.
Each dimension of Reinventing Communities Mission – Empowering, Creating, and Investing–encourages and fosters individual asset development for everyone in a community. Increased incomes, home ownership and asset growth motivate community engagement, increased employment, and sustainable, healthy neighborhoods, cities, and regions.
About Glenn Beamer, PhD.
Glenn has over twenty years’ experience working with communities as a policy analyst, community development consultant, and public policy advocate. He has developed and presented community profiles and evaluations for Bethlehem and Johnstown, Pennsylvania and Weirton, West Virginia. Glenn has evaluated and written about state tax policies and finances for stakeholders, agencies, and elected officials in Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, and West Virginia. Glenn has written extensively about the earned income tax credit, community development, pensions, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Glenn received his doctorate from the University of Michigan.
