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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

In this chapter, John O’Callaghan , president and CEO of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP), and Mandy Eidson , senior manager of the ANDP Loan Fund, share how ANDP is innovatively meeting affordable single-family housing needs in Atlanta.

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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

Iron Sharpens Iron

Mary Campbell, Director of Housing Services at New Kensington CDC joins hosts Leon Robinson and De’Wayne Drummond to talk about the many layers of what it means to be a housing counselor, the critical role of these advocates, and the need for more supports for affordable, stable housing and opportunities for home ownership.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing costs and supply are dominating the news at the moment. Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al.

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The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority outbids Wall Street to buy houses in Cincinnati

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arts and retail focused community development corporations. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the Playhouse Square Development Corporation, and Jubilee Housing of Baltimore (focused on live work housing) are particularly good examples. Transit focused community development corporations.

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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

Iron Sharpens Iron

Mary Campbell, Director of Housing Services at New Kensington CDC joins hosts Leon Robinson and De’Wayne Drummond to talk about the many layers of what it means to be a housing counselor, the critical role of these advocates, and the need for more supports for affordable, stable housing and opportunities for home ownership.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. 11 This core flaw of GSE design was described by then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson when F&F were placed into conservatorship in 2008.

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What’s a Capital Stack and How Does it Work?

CRA Today

In this model, the various sources of capital are stacked on top of each other to enhance community development financing projects. All these layers together make a community development loan possible. Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing.