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Community Development Field
Shelterforce considers “community development” to be an extremely broad term. But there are still many conversations about the ways in which that broad work happens. Comprehensively or in coalitions of specialized organizations? Locally or regionally? Place or people? While the answers to all of these are usually “both,” there are many conversations to be had about “how.”
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Federal Grant Rule Change Threatens Community Access to Public Funds
A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget would facilitate political interference in federal grant disbursements across all agencies. The deadline for public comment is July 13.
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People First, Profits Second
The most important part of The Atlantic Cities' piece, “Has Germany Figured Out the Way To Keep Rents Affordable?“ isn't whether Germany has figured out the way to keep rents […]
Housing Recovery, But Not For All
Our annual report, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2013, issued last June, documented the growing evidence of a solid recovery in the housing market, marked most visibly by widespread […]
Can a Community Fair Save a Dying Town?
Last weekend there were two ribbon cuttings here in Louisa County. One was for an expansion of the food pantry and the other was to celebrate the relocation of a 1770s-era […]
CDFIs: The Boom Sector in the Community Development Field?
Three weeks ago I went to Philadelphia to attend the annual conference of the Opportunity Finance Network, the trade association for CDFIs, or community development financial institutions. I go to […]
Booker: Kill the Filibuster, End Watt’s Wait
Cory Booker was just sworn in as a U.S. Senator. His introduction to the lunacy of Senate procedure was swift. In April, the well regarded Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) was […]
Will Our Universities Rekindle Their Public Purpose?
America’s colleges and universities are at a crossroads. For all too many students, a college education has become a major economic gamble. Over the past three decades, inflation-adjusted tuition has […]
Conservative Defeat Exposed in 10 “Shutdown” Headlines
Conservative icon Grover Norquist famously voiced the right wing’s hopes and dreams for our federal government: “I’m not in favor of abolishing the government,” Norquist quipped, “I just want to […]
Future CDCs Should Be Organizers, Not Developers
October is Filipino History Month. It won’t have its official grand opening before the end of the month, but Larry Itliong Village in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown (the HiFi) got […]
Rossana Torres: Taking on the FHFA
The following is a first-hand account from Rossana Torres on the need for the government to contribute to the National Housing Trust Fund. In July, Torres joined with Right to […]
Preserving Affordable Housing Through Tenant Advocacy
In March 2013, the National Low Income Housing Coalition introduced the United for Homes campaign, which proposes to create a source of funding for the National Housing Trust Fund by […]
Immigration Leaders Take a Stand…In Handcuffs
Immigrants are increasingly putting their bodies on the line, hoping to move immigration reform. On Oct. 8, a Chicago activist was one of roughly 200 protesters arrested outside the nation’s […]
Don’t Evaluate Community Development on Poverty Rates
Right now, in community development and in the nonprofit/charitable/public service sector more broadly, there is a push to incorporate more hard numbers, more metrics, into our evaluation of our performance. […]