Equity

An introduction to a new series of essays on mixed income communities that will comprise the fifth volume in the San Francisco Fed’s ‘What Works’ series.

President Trump’s 2020 budget once again proposes to eliminate, or sharply cut, most rural housing efforts and some other USDA rural programs.

Renters with disabilities are often unable to meet the kinds of admission criteria that landlords establish for their properties.

Techniques from the arts world can help us envision and re-envision relationships and systems to spot stress points and opportunities within communities.

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.