CRANC Bookshelf

Nuestro Barrio
(3-Disc Set)
13-Episode DVD of our
television series about
Hispanic life in the United
States, is in the forefront
of the new trend of
“edu-tainment”

This is My Home: The
Challenges and Opportunities
of Manufactured Housing
Housing of choice or housing of last
resort? Manufactured housing is both.
Importantly, it is home for millions of
Americans. Through photos and
interviews with residents in land-lease
communities, This Is My Home shares
the stories of people who live in
manufactured housing. This book
acknowledges that problems confront
manufactured housing. It suggests
that hope lies in the examples made
by the work of innovative nonprofits
across the country. It will leave a
reader with a new sense for how
manufactured housing can be an asset
in combating our nation's affordable
housing crisis.

2007 Parade of North
Carolina's Abandoned Mobile
Homes
Approximately 40,000 abandoned
manufactured homes populate North
Carolina's landscape. They are here to
stay, because local governments have
no tools to condemn them or funding
to remove them. This calendar
highlights some of our state's many
"abandoned beauties." These
abandoned homes won't go away by
themselves. Clean-up legislation
proposed in the N.C. General
Assembly offers a solution. If nothing
is done, North Carolina can look
forward to a future of more
abandoned homes every year!

Faith and the Common Good
CRA-NC produced “Faith and the
Common Good: Conversations from
the American Values Summit” as a
2-DVD set containing over two hours
of footage from the Summit. The
2-DVD set contains both Summit
highlights and complete keynote
addresses from Rev. William J.
Barber II and Rev. Jim Wallis, plus
selected panels.

programming, with character-driven
dramatic storylines rooted in real life
issues. The show uses the popular
“telenovela” or soap opera format to
address financial literacy and human
relations issues, including home
ownership, credit, and the dangers of
predatory lending