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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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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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The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation: transforming the approach to creating positive economic impact in distressed communities
From the late 1970s until about 2002,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was home to a half dozen or so very active community development corporations ? earnest organizations staffed with dedicated individuals who used federal and state funds to try to improve economically depressed neighborhoods by purchasing distressed properties, rehabilitating them, and then either selling or renting them to qualified, low-income families or local businesses. This effort mirrored what was happening in the rest of the country. According to a 2005 survey by the National Congress of Community.
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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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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.