Reflecting and Planning Using a Community Wealth Building Lens
The Governor’s Budget Non-strategy
In Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Seeks to Be a Good Neighbor
CRA “Reform” Under Trump Threatens Communities of Color and the 99 Percent
Can Cities Fix Their Polarization Problem? A Review of The Divided City
Underneath the Surface, a Community Fish Story
Is Your Town a Parasite?
More Than Marching: Creating Good Jobs That Protect Our Water And Air
Reconnecting Shared Visions to Investment Opportunities
Want a Stronger Economy? Focus More on Racial Inclusion
Making Community Benefits Agreements Count
Green Jobs with Roots
The Dollar Stores Take Their Place on the Block
Participatory Budgeting: Why Not Fix Everyone’s Sink?
Community Groups’ Role Vanishes Under New Federal Workforce Legislation
Placemaking for, and by, Whom?
Place-Making in Legacy Cities: Opportunities and Good Practices, prepared by New Solution Group LLC in partnership with Center for Community Progress, December 2013.
How One City Is Keeping Jobs Local Using Co-ops
Extending a Bank Branch to the Community
Crackdown Rocks Real-Estate Industry
Defending DACA Is a Moral and Economic Imperative
Why Eds and Meds Matter for Community Economic Development
Do New Yorkers Need an Emerald City?
Hubs Help Move the Local Food Movement to the Next Level
R Street Apartments: Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Goes Green
Using City Government to Build Community Wealth
You’re Gonna Change the Economy? How, Exactly?
Let’s Talk About Jobs—And Ownership
Sprawl vs. Unions
Persistently Poor Regions Would Welcome a Little Gentrification
When Work Creates Insecurity
New Jersey Divests from Payday Lending
Strengthening the CRA
How Not To Do Economic Development
To Build a Community Economy, Start With Solidarity
Who Will Benefit from Port Covington?
Filling Commercial Vacancies with Food Pantries
Local Hire: Popular and Controversial
An Industrial Revolution Comes to Indianapolis
New Lenses on Economic Development
Will Financial Crisis Lead to Hard Times for Nonprofits?
Put Your Spending Where Your Goals Are
A Gem for New Jersey Neighborhood Revitalization
Keeping Everyone Afloat: Is Universal Basic Income the Answer?
The Next Boom for Worker Co-ops?
A Victory for Local Control re: Fracking
Manufactured Locally
Who Will Benefit From Opportunity Zones? It’s Still Unclear
Building the Cars of the Future . . . in Detroit
Countrywide Is Not On Your Side
“Learning In”: A Coalition Organizes for Equitable Redevelopment
Long Time Coming
CRA Modernization: A Critical Moment for Underserved Neighborhoods
With Rising Property Taxes, Should Non-Profits Now Pay Their “Fair Share”?
A New Way to Finance Equitable Economic Development?
Tracking the Recession and the Recovery
Response to Darren Walker’s New Gospel of Wealth
The Cavalry Is Us: Civil Rights and Cooperative Action
Keeping the Jobs in House
New York City Needs to Stop Negotiating Rezonings From an Uneven Playing Field
Tracking Job Creation in the Nonprofit Sector
Would Trump’s CRA Reform Really “Do No Harm?”
In Hawaii, A Holistic Approach to Treat a Broken Economy
Interview with Jay Williams, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development
Shelterforce spoke with Williams at the conference of the National Alliance of Economic Development Associations last fall in San Antonio.