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Diversification of Capital Creates Fresh Focus
Hood, Heather (2013)
Learn how practitioners in public policy, public investment, and private development are working together to create new financing strategies for affordable housing.
Community Investments , Issue 01

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Addressing widening income inequality through community development
Choi, Laura (2011-10)
An overview of the history, causes, and current implications for the community development field of widening income inequality in America.
Community Investments , Volume 23 , Issue Fall

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Beyond lump sum: periodic payment of the earned income tax credit
Holt, Steve (2009-04)
Community Investments , Volume 21 , Issue Spr

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Improving the outcomes of place-based initiatives
Cytron, Naomi (2010-04)
For more than five decades, public, private and nonprofit entities have implemented a range of targeted neighborhood revitalization strategies designed to tackle the challenges associated with concentrated poverty. These efforts have included urban renewal programs, loans and grants motivated by the Community Reinvestment Act, housing redevelopment through HOPE VI, Empowerment Zones, New Markets Tax Credit investments, as well as foundation-led comprehensive community initiatives and local nonprofit ventures. The most ambitious of these initiatives have aimed to concentrate multiple ...
Community Investments , Volume 22 , Issue Spr

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Making the Invisible Visible: Urban Indian Community Development
Comenote, Janeen; Bang, Megan (2013)
Fully 78 percent of all American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) live off-reservation, and the majority of these AIANs live in cities. Despite a significant lack of resources, many urban Indian organizations are developing innovative and viable models for solving the current challenges that AIAN peoples face in urban areas, including isolation, poverty, and lack of access to affordable housing. This article provides some background and context on these challenges, and presents four key areas for support and community development in urban Indian communities: education, housing, health and ...
Community Investments , Issue 02

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Stronger transit, better transit-oriented development
Paine, Carli (2010-07)
Robust public transportation options can yield significant savings for households, local governments, and the environment. However, the lack of stable funding for public transit threatens the long-term viability of transportation systems that offer alternatives to dependence on automobiles. This article looks at some possibilities for policy reform that can re-balance transportation priorities and spending to better support the development of walkable neighborhoods near high quality transit.
Community Investments , Volume 22 , Issue Summer

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Community profile: Utah
anonymous (2006-10)
Community Investments , Volume 18 , Issue Oct

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CDFIs as catalysts for improving social outcomes
Rausch, Ela (2012-04)
This article discusses how CDFIs can use a logic model to effectively communicate their role as catalysts for improving social outcomes in underserved communities.
Community Investments , Volume 24 , Issue Spr

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Financial education: Does it work and how do we know?
Gorin, Daniel; Hogarth, Jeanne M.; Bell, Casey (2009-07)
Community Investments , Volume 21 , Issue Sum

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The role of transportation planning and policy in shaping communities
Cytron, Naomi (2010-07)
This article reviews some of the social and environmental costs of transportation planning over the past half-century, and highlights some promising trends in planning and policy development at the local and federal level. These legislative measures, incentives, and new patterns of growth - including transit-oriented development (TOD) - are poised to remedy some past harms by better aligning transportation, housing, and environmental considerations. Equitable TOD, though not a silver bullet, has particular potential to enhance access for low-income communities to employment, education, and ...
Community Investments , Volume 22 , Issue Summer

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