![Zev Carter ’18 of Mattituck, N.Y., documents real estate on the corner of Maple and Park streets in Lewiston. As a participant in the Harward Center’s Short Term Action/Research Team, Carter is photographing and creating an archive of all the rental properties on the city’s “tree streets” for increased access to safe and affordable housing downtown. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Healthy Homeworks (Amy Smith; amy.smith@healthyhomeworks.org; Zev Carter; Kristen Cloutier)
Contribute to a database of information on housing conditions in the Tree Streets neighborhood of downtown Lewiston
Mine publicly-available resources for information about housing conditions on select properties in a section of the Tree Streets neighborhood.
Take pictures of relevant properties.
Add data points to database.
Information will eventually help increase access to safe and affordable housing in the downtown.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2018/05/180509_Zev_Carter_Tree_Streets_0037-1-200x133.jpg)
The Presidency essay cites Bates' commitment to community
Syracuse University president Nancy Cantor, writing in The Presidency, the magazine of the American Council on Education, urges U.S. colleges and universities to “leverage our diverse and unique institutional identities as place-based institutions.” She notes that “institutions large and small have joined with partners in their own communities to place the arts and humanities at the center of urban revitalization, as we are doing in Syracuse. From Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, to the University at Buffalo, to the University of Southern California, higher education institutions are pooling their cultural and intellectual gravity to draw people back to downtowns.”