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
Vincent Tufo of Charter Oaks Communities and Pam Koprowski of Stamford Hospital forged a partnership in Stamford, Connecticut – the Vita Health & Wellness District. As the Affordable Care Act requires nonprofit hospitals to play a role in preventing disease, Vita stands out as a national model.
July 8, 2016
Terry Glazer combined people power and the might of the media to revitalize neglected North Toledo neighborhoods.
June 15, 2016
NACEDA Intern Vaidehi Patel spoke with Paige Carlson-Heim of TD Bank about the Community Reinvestment Act.
April 28, 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
Ramón León of the Latino Economic Development Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota developed a Mercado, sparking entrepreneurship and revitalizing a neighborhood.
August 4, 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
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
Dorothea Bernique of Increasing HOPE in North Charleston, South Carolina, uses financial education to prevent predatory lending and foreclosure, stabilize neighborhoods.
June 22, 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
Nick Mitchell-Bennett of the Community Development Corporation of Brownsville, Texas developed an alternative to payday lending that's going national.
April 27, 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
Leigh Evans of the Mapleton-Fall Creek Development Corporation addressed blight and abandonment to revitalize her Indianapolis, Indiana neighborhood.
March 9, 2015
A brief explanation of the community development field by Rachid Erekaini
September 17, 2014
A partnership based on trust between a network of CDCs and Johns Hopkins University creates a unified vision for Central Baltimore
August 13, 2014
Minnesota legislature approves $100 million in housing bonds thanks to advocacy by Homes for All Alliance, Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers
June 6, 2014
