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Even large health systems willing to finance housing can’t solve housing affordability by themselves; it will take policy change. Taking the plunge to lobbying for that change is still a big step, but when they do they get attention.

After 14 years at the Ford Foundation, George “Mac” McCarthy became the fifth president of the 41-year-old Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Hanaa Hamdi is the director of health impact investment strategies and partnerships at New Jersey Community Capital, the state’s largest CDFI. Michellene Davis is the executive vice president and chief […]

While eliminating food deserts often involves resources from outside of the community, a neighborhood must maintain control of its assets and identity.

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

Even during tough times, the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative has added new co-ops, new workers, and new strategies.

These books not only offer something of a window on what is—or is not—going on in small cities, but useful pointers for practitioners working in the types of cities described.

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.

Community development corporations need to become more educated about hospital community benefits. This is what can be done to get the process started.

As with the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, we need a new mechanism for the next 36 years that forces corporations to anchor themselves in our neighborhoods.

Why housing messaging is backfiring and recommendations on how to change course.

Even if you have not tuned out of the long-running debate about the future of health care in the United States, you can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of […]