Oregon

Community development financial institutions lend to micro- and small-business owners, but the jobs those businesses create are often minimum wage, part time, or otherwise low quality. What makes a job a good job, and what are CDFIs doing to help small-business borrowers create good jobs?

Once a must-have for foundations, Comprehensive Community Initiatives found mixed success.

Health care institutions are expanding from funding development to supporting housing justice and tenant rights policy.

The ushering in of a new administration is a good time to reflect on some key 2020 ballot measures that have either advanced or hurt racial and health equity.

If we stick with yesterday’s policy and programs in an unprecedented year of crisis, we will leave an unconscionable number of people, families, and communities behind.

Proposed state bill in Massachusetts boosts housing production, helps end exclusionary zoning.

Six regional and state housing advocates discuss the connections between uprisings over racial injustice, the pandemic, and the need for housing security.

The fates of three venerable policies on fair share housing and sustainable land use can point the way for how to support similar efforts in other states.

If a lender won’t or can’t modify, why wait until they foreclose? Some groups are taking matters into their own hands with note purchases or short sale programs.