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THE ROUNDTABLES GETTING DOWN TO SPECIFICS Thursday morning also offered a chance to drill down to finer details with smaller groups. There were 12 subject-specific, one-hour roundtables, all held in one large hall, all repeated once, all led by a facilitator and all informed by three “resource” Chicagoans familiar with the issue. The roundtable on the foreclosure crisis drew the most participants. Here is a sampling: THE FORECLOSURE CRISIS “ We’re doing one case after another, we really are overwhelmed. We need a lot more counselors. This is not going to stop. I see it going on at least two more years.” PETRA VILLAZANA, housing counselor, Greater Southwest Development Corp. “ The idea of saving homes becomes more and more our focus. We’ve known about this (predatory lending) for years. No one from outside the neighborhood is going to solve our problem. How do we deal with this as a neighborhood MIKE REARDON, Neighborhood Housing Services, Gage Park/Chicago Lawn “ We need to deal with the psychology of foreclosure. People didn’t do anything wrong. People have been victimized and should allow themselves to be helped.” SEANNE THOMAS, East Side Neighborhood Development Company, St. Paul “ Instead of foreclosure prevention we’re finding ourselves doing foreclosure planning. What happens when the sheriff comes to your door to put your furniture in the street Where do you go What about the kids” ART RIVERA, LISC/San Diego 36
IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT “ Let’s shed some light on the positive contributions of immigrants. There’s this notion immigrants are a social cost or drag. It’s not true.” RAUL RAYMUNDO, executive director, The Resurrection Project “ Immigrants have the lowest foreclosure rates, especially on ITIN [Individual Tax Identification Number] mortgages.” EMILIO CARRASQUILLO, Neighborhood Housing Services, Back-of-the-Yards “ We also have to talk about U.S. policy and the economy of Mexico. People say ‘get in line’ and come here legally. From Mexico it takes 15 years to petition for immigration into the U.S. … So they come here anyway and earn that first dollar and then they open up a business and they buy a house and so on. How does our government learn to embrace this” LUIS GUTIERREZ, Latinos Progresando, Chicago USING SCHOOLS TO TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES “ No child left behind is blaming teachers for society’s ills. We make them ‘teach the test’ instead of the complete child. Funny, because I don’t know of any employer who hires testtakers ... We don’t do that at our school. We’ve learned that you have to make it fun for the teacher so they’ll make it fun for the students.” PAUL O’TOOLE, principal, Marquette Elementary School, Chicago “ The ISS model is very comprehensive. The parents don’t do anything without the teacher. The teachers don’t do anything without the principal.” ERNEST SANDERS, NCP organizer, Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corp., on the Integrated Services in Schools program newly announced by LISC, Chicago Public Schools and The Atlantic Philanthropies “ One thing we’re dealing with is a culture of teachers that say ‘This is my room and you can’t touch it.’ ” DANETTE TOWNSEND, New Mexico Community Foundation, which has been piloting an Integrated Services in Schools program in that state CENTERS FOR WORKING FAMILIES “ I love the concept of bundling of services to build assets. People come to us voluntarily. It is outstanding to me that people keep coming through our doors. It also says something about our economy.” SHARON STOKES, financial coach, St. Sabina Employment Resource Center 37
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