Giving Back: A Grad Student’s Do-It-Yourself Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis

Graduate student Imran Farooq at the University of Southern California is using his doctoral dissertation to help address foreclosure. The goal of his project, called “Sustaining our Society,” is to create a model for neighborhood revitalization that involves partnerships between residents, investors and nonprofits. As part of his project, Farooq chose a home in a neighborhood with many foreclosures and worked with an investor to create energy efficiencies in the homes. Farooq agrees that both nonprofits and government are needed to solve the foreclosure issue, but believes that private companies and investors also need to be involved. Read more.

SOURCE: Huffington Post, 3/14/11