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Many Black churches in the U.S. are developing housing on their property, and becoming stronger activists in the fight for affordable housing.

A range of existing policy tools can help preserve and expand affordable housing near planned transit stations — but to have the most effect, they need to be put in place up front.

Empowerment is the ultimate response to displacement: perpetual affordability in a process that gives folks a stake in discussions and in an economy from which they are usually shut out.

How did recent equitable development projects in Baton Rouge, Dallas, and South Florida fare?

Who has been behind the large increase in financial support for and attention to what has been termed “creative placemaking” over the past couple years, and why?

“This land is too valuable to permit poor people to park on it.” —Justin Herman, former executive director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, 1970 The land Herman was referring […]

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.

The CLT sector in the United Kingdom is young but booming

Abandoned and vacant properties seem like a quintessentially local problem. But state policies have a huge effect on how well municipalities can fight it.

You’ve heard of transit-oriented development. But food-oriented development might be easier to generate. 

Folks who present on and moderate panels: We can no longer claim that a meaningful presentation can’t be done in three minutes and that
you need longer.

For the community economic development organizations that have spent decades trying to keep Newark’s neighborhoods afloat, the promise of a new mayor has only managed to throw the city’s paradoxes into sharper relief.