Equity

In blistering letter, U.N. special rapporteur slams the U.S. government and international companies for violating human rights through the excessive financialization of the housing market.

If CDFIs adopted traditional appraisal standards to determine loan amounts, they’d make very few loans in the communities they were founded to serve.

There are distinct differences between natural disaster response and recovery in rural and urban communities. How can community-based organizations better respond to disasters and help rural communities prepare before disaster strikes?

After natural disasters, recovery efforts tend to lift up those who have resources to bounce back quickly, but cement poverty for those with modest means.

Four Asset Based Community Development practices that support social justice frameworks when practitioners make them explicit and intentional.

A review of The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities, by Edward G. Goetz.

Several national organizations in the community development field have experienced transitions from white leadership to people of color.

Our talk with Radhika Fox, the CEO of the US Water Alliance, about water justice and ways to build stronger communities.

An Alaskan collective’s perspective on taking care of oneself can apply to organizations that work with communities that have experienced trauma. After all, organizations should make the mental and physical health of their staff a top priority, too.

The complicated relationship between the Davis-Bacon Act, Black construction workers, and Black-owned construction businesses in Boston.

Estate planning should be employed as part of a broader plan of preservation of wealth and assets in communities of color. 

A new book explores the history, impact, and policy solutions to racial segregation.