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  • Senior Economic Justice Correspondent, Next City
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As seen in: Next City, Medium, Aol, Fast Company, Kansas City Star, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Tacoma News Tribune, Wichita Eagle, EIN News, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Fresno Bee and
Covers:  Equitable economic development. People, policies and innovative models that help the least powerful, the most disadvantaged to access economic tools and opportunities.
Senior Economic Justice Correspondent for @NextCityOrg. Author of The Banks We Deserve @islandpress oscar@nextcity.org he/him #FilAm

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Oscar Perry Abello is a journalist focusing on people, policies, and programs that intend to drive progress towards a more just and equitable world. Specific topics covered include social enterprise, microfinance, impact investing, financial regulation, tax policy, entrepreneurship and small business, fair trade, social franchising, branding for small nonprofits, and philanthropy.

Oscar's coverage is informed by his prior work as an online media specialist in global development, where he worked…

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Is a Community-Minded Business Model Doomed in Gentrifying San Francisco?

Is a Community-Minded Business Model Doomed in Gentrifying San Francisco?

According to one longtime Mission District entrepreneur, "the new residents take pictures in front of the mur…

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Can Crowdfunding Level the Playing Field for Investment?

Can Crowdfunding Level the Playing Field for Investment?

(Photo by Wouter Engler) President Barack Obama recently challenged us to think about why we call Johnny back…

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Developer Takes Big Picture Approach in Baltimore Neighborhood

Developer Takes Big Picture Approach in Baltimore Neighborhood

East Baltimore's Oliver neighborhood (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) "I'm here to tell David when to say, 'No' …

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Developer Takes Big Picture Approach in Baltimore Neighborhood

Developer Takes Big Picture Approach in Baltimore Neighborhood

East Baltimore's Oliver neighborhood (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) "I'm here to tell David when to say, 'No' …

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Inside Atlanta’s Ambitious Plan To End Decades of Taxpayer-Subsidized Displacement

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By Oscar Abello Verified
| Next City Verified
The dust is just settling in Atlanta. Over the past nine months, the city has fought a huge battle over whether to extend the city’s Tax-Allocation Districts, or TADs. After Mayor Ande Dickens’ initial proposal to extend this controversial public financing tool last fall drew a groundswell of pushback, the city went back to the drawing board.
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The Bronx Is Codifying Community Power in Economic Development

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| Next City Verified
The Bronx gave the world salsa. It gave the world hip-hop. Now the Bronx is staking its claim as the birthplace of a new economic development paradigm. It’s a paradigm rooted in decades of organizing around projects like the Kingsbridge Armory and the former Lincoln Recovery Center, both of which will soon be transformed under hard-fought community ownership.
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Banking Like The Planet Depends On It

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By Oscar Abello Verified
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: Nicholas Hartnett, owner of Pure Power Solar, carries a panel as he and Brian Hoeppner, right, install a solar array on a roof in Frankfort, Kentucky, on July 17, 2023. Michael Conroy / AP. Climate First Bank hit $1.8 billion in assets by financing clean energy projects one relationship at a time. Now it wants to teach other community banks how to do the same.
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