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What Does CDBG Do?

August 29, 2025 | Frank Navarrete

The president floated cutting Community Development Block Grants entirely from the federal budget, which Congress has so far declined to do. How do these grants get used at the local level?

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Community Development Field

CDCs Are Having a Moment. Can the Momentum Last?

October 7, 2022 | Shelby R. King

Over the past couple of years, community development corporations have been popping up in sometimes-unexpected places across the country. Will this increased interest in CDCs last, or is it a trend that will end when the money runs out?

Organizing Strategy

Tenant Organizing When Rising Rent Isn’t the (Main) Issue

January 22, 2020 | Julian Francis Park

Tenant organizing has been re-energized in coastal cities where housing costs are soaring. But tenants need a voice in the rest of the country too—and they are organizing to get one.

Equity

Iowa: The Midwest Katrina?

June 17, 2008 | Kari Lydersen

“It looks like Katrina,” said a man stuck in traffic, his bare foot hanging out his car window, on the jammed freeway through Cedar Rapids on Friday, June 13, as […]