Lawrence Deane
- Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Lawrence Deane is assistant professor at the University of Manitoba Inner City Social Work Program, a degree program for inner city residents. He has worked in community economic development for over twenty years, first in India and then in Winnipeg’s inner city. He is a founding member of the North End Housing Project and currently on its Board.
Books by Lawrence Deane
Under One Roof
Community Economic Development and Housing in the Inner City
Lawrence Deane
Under One Roof is a case study of an innovative and alternative model of community economic development, one quite at odds with the conventional “export/free market model” of CED. Using the North End Housing Project in Winnipeg as his focus, Lawrence Deane assesses the strategy of housing as the centrepiece for CED. The people in William Whyte neighbourhood founded and ran NEHP to buy, renovate, rent and sell housing to residents in one of the lowest-income locales in the city. Their… (more information)