The Housing Community & Development Network of New Jersey focused their Under One Roof Conference on "Housing As Health." That was an important milestone for NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff. He reflects on the event and the journey he and the Network took to get there.
October 31, 2017
Two days after Donald Trump was elected president, members of the NACEDA network came together for a strategic communications training. Nina Arce of the Housing & Community Development Network of New Jersey says the timing couldn't have been more perfect.
November 22, 2016
JPMorgan Chase's Naomi Camper and NACEDA's Frank Woodruff examine how community development networks can provide the long-term infrastructure needed to improve places and access to opportunity.
November 18, 2016
Structural racism is a pollutant that threatens the community development ecosystem. How can we confront and defeat this dangerous pollutant? This blog by Joe Kriesberg of the Massachusetts Association of CDCs is part of the Living Cities series, “Closing the Racial Gaps: Together We Can.”
November 9, 2016
NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff sees how government and nonprofits cooperate to increase prosperity – and fun – in Michigan's capital city. This is Frank's last stop in his Goldilocks-themed tour of Michigan.
September 22, 2016
NACEDA and Americans for the Arts selected three partnerships to leverage the power of arts, culture and creativity to revitalize communities.
September 19, 2016
Flint, Michigan has been coping with a cold real estate market due to declining manufacturing and population loss. Then, the water crisis hit. How are the city's neighborhoods faring? NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff took a tour with Flint HOME Administrator.
September 15, 2016
NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff toured three Michigan cities and describes them Goldilocks style. His first stop is Grand Rapids, where he met with city officials, toured emerging neighborhoods with a local CDC director, and saw how local investment and local values have made Grand Rapids a hot market by Michigan standards.
September 8, 2016
NACEDA intern Barbara Anne Kozee outlines the place for worker cooperatives and sustainable local economies in the future of economic development.
August 9, 2016
NACEDA Intern Vaidehi Patel spoke with Paige Carlson-Heim of TD Bank about the Community Reinvestment Act.
April 28, 2016
New Jersey Governor Christie's veto of funds to prevent lead poisoning hurts kids and makes no economic sense, explains the executive director of the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey in The Star-Ledger.
March 8, 2016
How can Massachusetts community developers get the resources they need to provide quality affordable homes? Joe Kriesberg and Don Bianchi of the Massachusetts Association of CDCs share their legislative priorities.
January 28, 2016
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick discusses the Community Investment Tax Credit with MACDC President Joe Kriesberg
December 9, 2015
Carbon emission trading is becoming a revenue source for affordable, green homes in California. NACEDA Intern Sydney Mann explains how.
August 10, 2015
The Housing Seattle plan backed by Mayor Murray sets a goal of 50,000 units built or preserved over ten years, with 20,000 designated as affordable.
July 15, 2015
The fact that NACEDA's first direct federal grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts reveals a lot about the challenges neighborhoods face and how our movement will address those challenges, asserts NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff.
July 15, 2015
Connecting the dots between community development corporations and healthy communities with Kavya Sekar of Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations.
June 5, 2015
Creative placemaking leverages arts and culture to serve communities. NACEDA Intern Max Brekke provides compelling examples as he makes sense of this growing field.
May 15, 2015
The most diverse and inclusive community development conference in a decade, the 2015 People & Places Community Conference was a platform for the nation's leading networks of community development practitioner networks − NACEDA, National CAPACD, NALCAB and the Urban League.
April 22, 2015
A brief explanation of the community development field by Rachid Erekaini
September 17, 2014
