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Episode 64: Bridging the Racial Wealth Divide with NCRC’s Community Development Fund

CRA Today

Marisa Calderon is the executive director at NCRC Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF), a nonprofit, U.S. Treasury-certified community development financial institution (CDFI) that provides loan capital to expand access to affordable homeownership, which helps Black-, Brown- and woman- owned businesses thrive.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Community Land Trusts and State Legislation: A Model Act to Enable This Affordable Housing Tool.”

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The Future is "Perserverance" with Jane Leonard

The Future Is Community podcast

Jane highlights examples of interdisciplinary collaborations across Minnesota to demonstrate how successful community development enhances economic growth alongside social justice. In this episode, Jane Leonard draws from her 40 years of wisdom to emphasize the fact that our world is not one-dimensional.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The discussion of Equinox and Brooklyn Army Terminal also covers community building and camaraderie amongst the artists, sharing equipment and help depending on needs, organizing events, etc. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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Community Progress Calls on FHA to Improve Access to Rehab Mortgages

Center for Community Progress

In 2018, only 5 percent of the conventional mortgage market were loans to Black borrowers, compared to 15 percent of the FHA/VA market, which are government-mandated to serve underserved borrowers. CDFIs are lenders that aim to provide fair and responsible financing to communities that mainstream finance often doesn’t reach.

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From BTMFBA to "community right to buy"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

BTMFBA, or Buy The Mother F Building Already, is a set of blog entries about how arts groups specifically and nonprofits more generally, need to own their facilities in order to be able to control their futures -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," 2016 -- " BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in (..)

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Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

On today’s episode, we’re talking with Peter Kageyama, one of the 2018 NRPA Annual Conference keynote speakers. Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development.