Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

Majora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation. How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification.

by Majora Carter, February, 2022. Random House Publication.