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Bank holding company investments for community development
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Recycling urban vacant land inch by inch, row by row: neighbors reclaim neighborhoods
Vacant, abandoned, and contaminated properties in urban areas can provide opportunities for neighborhood transformation- even new jobs. Examples in the Northeast show that sometimes all it takes to get the ball rolling is a group of visionary gardeners.
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Fed Governors see Cameron Park colonia firsthand
Federal Reserve Governors Susan Bies and Ben Bernanke recently visited with the Community Development Corporation of Brownsville and toured the Cameron Park colonia to learn more about affordable housing development in Texas colonias. They also met with a small business owner who received a loan from ACCION Texas, the country's largest microlender.
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Center for community self-help
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The political history of and prospects for reauthorizing new markets
Mr. Roberts, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation?s Vice President for Policy, is at the forefront of efforts to renew the NMTC program. This article combines his recent political experience with an analysis of the political history of the NMTC program. The across-the-political-spectrum popularity of the program, combined with its growing effectiveness, good reputation, and adept lobbying efforts bode well for a successful renewal fight that is currently underway in Congress.
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Community perspective: is the NMTC making a difference in low-income communities?
Mr. Armistead has been an advocate for low-income communities for over 20 years and has extensive experience working with a wide network of community development practitioners. He has tapped that network, in addition to case studies of NMTC projects, in an effort to answer the question of whether this program is helping low-income communities.
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The new markets tax credit program: a midcourse assessment
Two leading scholars of community development analyze the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program?s origins in the economic boom of the 1990s and its implementation in a much different economic and political environment after 2000. The authors examine the program?s successes and failures and discuss prospects for improvement.
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Investor perspective: how to invest in NMTCs
Wells Fargo Bank has over $1 billion in its community investment portfolio and is one of the country?s leading investors in NMTC. This article is a practical analysis of how to target and underwrite NMTC investments.
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Case study from application to construction: Clearinghouse CDFI puts new markets tax credits to work
Two Community Development Financial Institutions share their stories of how they created CDEs and successfully applied to the CDFI Fund for NMTCs. Both financed innovative projects with their tax credits. In these two articles, they share their experiences and lessons learned in applying for and using tax credits to make community-enhancing investments.
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Case study from application to construction: lenders for community development put new markets tax credits to work
Two Community Development Financial Institutions share their stories of how they created CDEs and successfully applied to the CDFI Fund for NMTCs. Both financed innovative projects with their tax credits. In these two articles, they share their experiences and lessons learned in applying for and using tax credits to make community-enhancing investments.