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Local procurement policies take money already being spent and direct it to local businesses to get more economic development benefit for the buck.

Local hire policies are among the strongest strategies for bringing good job opportunities to disadvantaged communities, but adding more provisions to specifically target those with the most barriers to employment can make local hiring practices even more effective.

Local governments must explore ways to minimize commercial and residential property deterioration and subsequent vacancy.

Urban centers need to come up with creative solutions
to keep their local economies safe from the crushing
force of big-box retailers.

Editor’s Note: This is in response to Randy Stoecker’s earlier post on community organizing on the national level. ACORN, PICO, and US Action are among the community organizing groups mobilizing […]

In the community development and investment fields, we have traditionally looked first to local organizations to address local needs.  Want to develop more affordable housing?  First call is often to […]

Arrangements in which LIHTC tenants share in the development’s financial benefits, or become partial or full owners, are rare—but some properties have pulled them off. This scan of several examples shows the possibilities—and the conditions needed for them to succeed.

Local policies play a role in addressing the growing problem of high housing costs. This guide can help simplify the complex landscape of housing policy.

Over the past few years faith-based organizing networks have broken onto the national organizing scene, adding grass-roots power and issue expertise to some of the biggest problems of the day.

Anchor institutions are beginning to realize that they face similar challenges and, by joining forces, can accomplish goals that once seemed out of reach.

As the Bluff City picks itself up, its CDC community faces a host of challenges that are increasingly common across the field.

As the school reform debates rage on, community groups struggle to stay out of the politics and yet keep influencing the quality of education in their neighborhoods.