“Can we build sustainable housing that’s affordable, too? The city of Buffalo did, and created a community jobs pipeline in the process. Here’s what can happen when neighborhoods take the lead.” – YES! Magazine
People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo is also making waves in the media. In this case it’s YES! Magazine that is touting the Greater Buffalo organization, by showcasing where the group is coming from and where it is going. The article talks about some of the challenges along the way, and the hard fought battles that allowed PUSH to move forward in ways that no other organization has been able to do thus far. From the article:
Massachusetts Avenue Park was not a place you’d want to take your kids. Before, the small neighborhood park in the heart of Buffalo’s West Side was little more than vacant land with a small playground and a crumbling basketball court. “It was a real mess,” says Terry Richard, a neighborhood resident who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and later moved to Buffalo by way of Brooklyn. “So we figured … why don’t we just take this on as a task to really force the city’s hand to take care of their problem,” she adds, standing next to the park’s new playground with a bright smile.