The Ultimate Guide For Community Developers
When David Partners with Goliath is the essential guidebook for nonprofit neighborhood organizations seeking to join hands with private developers to rebuild low income and distressed communities and towns.
It’s a step-by-step hands-on Bible on how to engage in joint venture projects to finance and build affordable housing, cultural and business centers, health-care facilities and places of worship.
Written by Barry Mallin, Esq., a lawyer specializing in housing and community development for the past 35 years, a lecturer at law schools and universities and advisor to government agencies at the local, state and federal level, and author of the Legal Handbook on Developing Low Income Housing and Legal Handbook for Community Development Organizations.
Nuts & Bolts Chapters on
- The Development Process—the Six Major Steps from Planning to Financing to Operation
- Legal Planning for Joint Venture Projects
- Negotiating the Joint Venture Agreement
- Joint Venture Tax Implications for Nonprofits
- Case Studies
- Checklists-Including How to Select the Right Developer, Protections in the Joint Venture Agreement and Low Income Tax Credit Partnerships
When David Partners with Goliath is an indispensable resource for community and neighborhood developers, local nonprofits, lawyers, universities and law schools, urban planners, and government housing and economic development agencies.
What Experts in the Field are Saying:
Recommended as an invaluable resource for law schools, especially clinical programs in housing, urban development and related areas, law students and their professors, public interest lawyers, neighborhood leaders, community groups, and government agencies and elected officials who understand the importance of revitalizing our neighborhoods for the people who live there.
HON. KRISTIN BOOTH GLEN
Dean Emerita, City University of New York School of Law; Surrogate Judge, New York County (ret.)
Mr. Mallin’s work will be an invaluable resource for community development organizations seeking to rebuild their neighborhoods, as well as the attorneys that support them. A must-read for a more vibrant future in the communities we love.
JUDGE LAURA SAFER ESPINOZA
retired jurist and Executive Director of the human rights organization, Fair Foods Standards Council, Sarasota, Florida
A practical guide to actually producing desperately needed affordable housing – in an ever more impractical country. Written by someone who has dedicated much of his life to not only developing solutions to this national crisis, but to implementing those solutions as well.
JOHN MCGETTRICK
community activist, former co-chair of the Red Hook Civic Association, Brooklyn, New York, and board member of nonprofit neighborhood development groups
This is a very welcome book. Rather than merely offering easily ignored comments on proposed development plans in our beloved neighborhoods, Barry Mallin offers us a template for becoming partners in the planning and design of community projects from the get-go, making them our own.
KATHRYN B. QUINN, ESQ.
West Village Residents Association, New York, New York
Barry Mallin is a wizard for empowering the ‘little guy’ and creating innovative solutions that benefit all parties.
ROBERT KRIEGEL PH.D
NY Times best selling author of ‘If it Ain’t Broke; BREAK IT!, San Diego, California
Built on decades of hard-won experience from one of New York City’s most influential affordable housing attorneys, this book teaches you the unwritten rules of development you can’t find anywhere else.”
MATT MALINE, ESQ.
housing development attorney, Portland, Oregon
Mallin’s book is an indispensable blueprint for community organizers and nonprofits dedicated to creating truly affordable housing and bringing essential resources to their neighborhoods
DIEM BOYD
community activist and founder, LES Dwellers, New York, New York