Economic Development

In his recent speech to Congress, President Trump included this pledge: “Every American child should be able to grow up in a safe community...

The current HopkinsLocal effort, a three-year program launched in September 2015, is also clearly a response to the death of Freddie Gray and the events that followed.

National community development leaders discuss making the case for housing in a "jobs above all else" political environment.

While there is much debate about the state of large-scale domestic manufacturing, a few places are quietly supporting local manufacturing for items that have been made overseas for some time, from jewelry to jeans.

By now most people in urban America who pay attention to the news have heard of fracking, the practice of...

A new Brookings Institution analysis confirms what we are feeling: inequality continues to climb in cities, and large income...

Smart Growth Schools expert Nathan Norris lists 11 key principles for measuring how well schools and school policies fit in with their communities. I...

  As housing and community development practitioners, you need little convincing that dismantling racial barriers to economic opportunity—from policing practices to exclusionary zoning—is critical to building stronger, more cohesive communities. But what about the economic cost of these persistent racial inequities? Might segregated regions not just undermine the country’s moral fabric, but also hinder its […]

Restoring a community's culturally significant site in Albuquerque to be a true economic resource as well as a source of healing.

Turning eminent domain into a tool for creating vital communities hinges on crafting a delicate balance between all who stand to benefit -- or lose out -- from the transformation of a neighborhood.

To realize the promise of community investment, the capacity of specific places to absorb available capital needs to grow.

With city budgets shrinking rapidly, municipal governments are desperate to collect property tax revenue wherever they can find it. So they are moving to...

During 15 years of working within a community development corporation to create and support socially and economically resilient communities, one of my perpetual frustrations...

A: A lot! In fact, they are so different that the Democracy Collaborative, which made the chart below, has coined the term “community wealth building” to set apart the truly community-oriented practitioners of economic development.

Shared equity homeownership programs just had a big win.

A review of the 2020 documentary, The Place That Makes Us, directed by Karla Murthy. 70 minutes.

The idea of turning the community land trust model into an economic development tool is attracting growing interest, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how it would work.

When it's more appealing to circumvent the law requiring that jobs in public housing construction go to qualified residents than to follow it, something needs to change.

If people were surprised at how skeptical voters in the recent West Virginia Democratic primary were of Barack Obama’s casting himself as the candidate...

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan is expected to announce the NSP2 grantees, benefitting from nearly $2 billion of neighborhood stabilization program funds made available in...