Rather than look down on low-income areas in the city of Kalamazoo, one organization continues to work to lift each other up and regenerate community ties. Building Blocks of Kalamazoo empowers ...

Editor’s Note: Since 2022, Dan Hedigan has been CEO of Irvine-based Five Point Holdings, a real estate developer that has 40,000 homes built or planned and has an $811 million market cap (NYSE: FPH).

Fall River's Building Blocks program aims to fight blight in the form of vacant and dilapidated homes. The program is run by the city's Community Development Agency. Building Blocks helps the city get ...