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Residents speak at a panel on gun violence
The Winston-Salem Journal
At a “Strategy-Focused Town Hall Discussion on Gun Violence” at the Carl Russell Community Center on Carver School Road in Winston-Salem, audience members spoke out on several issues.
Dr. Monica D. Guillory wins an award
CSEM News
Dr. Monica D. Guillory presented a paper at the 2022 Small Business Institute (SBI) conference. The mission of the Small Business Institute® is to be the premier provider of professional development for those engaged in experiential student team consulting and related entrepreneurship education, research, and activities.
Struggles are real’ for released offenders – and so are the chances for success
The Winston-Salem Chronicle
“The struggles are real,” an audience member at a recent statewide conference on reentry said of the challenges that released offenders and those who work with them face.
CSEM and New America participate in national panel on little understood housing issue
CSEM News
A co-sponsored event by New America and CSEM led with some of the startling findings from our joint report on the collapse of real estate values in East Winston. Other participants included The Wall Street Journal, Pew Charitable Trust, Urban Institute, Piedmont Federal Savings Bank and Hurry Home. Panelists discussed what’s happened to the small mortgage market, and how it could be affecting our most impoverished neighborhoods in terms of stagnating property values. Solutions to this are also addressed.
Atkins CDC sets model for scaling up workforce housing
The Winston-Salem Chronicle
Carol Davis and Virginia Hardesty walked down Hardesty Lane, just off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Winston-Salem. The street had once sagged, but is now graced by several new houses of first-time homebuyers, thanks to the efforts of Davis and Hardesty.
CSEM/New America’s long-awaited report released to the public
CSEM News
“The Lending Hole at the Bottom of the Market: Why Millions of Homebuyers Can’t Get Small Mortgages” is a long awaited report that has been released after a year long research effort by a CSEM/New America team. It combines rigorous data analysis with qualitative interviews to highlight a little understood problem affecting the American dream.
Kernersville development is blueprint for scaling up workforce housing
The Winston-Salem Chronicle
In the early 2000s, Deidris Reynolds, a hospital secretary, was living in an apartment in southern Winston-Salem. Crime was rampant. She wanted to buy her first home in a safe neighborhood for her three young boys.
CSEM takes part in festival highlighting city’s best innovators
CSEM News
Winston-Salem is increasingly known as a city revitalizing with innovative initiatives, from biotech to music to education. The CSEM team is proud to be a bedrock of that through its groundbreaking research.
