oll through the blocks that make up the Normandy Schools Collaborative’s footprint, and you’ll feel it: Certain sectors of these two dozen small communities are struggling. While many of the 36,000 residents fall into the middleincome category, nearly half the children are growing up in poverty; crime festers; the school district is only provisionally accredited. Since 2009, the folks at the not-for-profit Beyond Housing have been focused on this area. They’ve labored at the macro level (by building affordable housing and the Carter Commons commercial hub, for instance) as well as the micro level (by assisting residents with health, personal finance, and other challenges). Now, in an effort to scale up, the group’s executive director, Chris Krehmeyer,
