Citizen Lab

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With so many incredible community development and engagement projects taking place on our platform across the world, we hope to record some best practices and share them with local governments to encourage peer learning and inspiration. Here at CitizenLab, we love to celebrate the successes of our clients.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

In September 2024, Community Progress convened a learning exchange in Cleveland for leaders in land conservation and their partner land banks and local government agencies from four cities: Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit.

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CRA Today

APRIL 8, 2024

Episode 65: CRA Tips: Revisiting the Fundamentals: A Community Development Loan Primer [link] This episode will lay the foundation for community development loans as it relates to your CRA program. Community development loans must have a primary purpose of community development.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

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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OpenGov

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Getting Shovel-Ready: How Three Communities Promote Economic Growth and Development December 2, 2022 – OpenGov Econimic growth and development is a hot topic in the government space. To keep pace with this growth, community development departments across […].

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Rebuilding Trust Through Community Engagement Rebuilding trust between governments and their communities will be a central theme in 2025. Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Community development leaders continuously balance resource, budget and land constraints. While smart city practices are still relatively new in city government, there are many practical applications for cities invested in advancing equitable community development.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Epsiode 61: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA [link] Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)?

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CRA Today

AUGUST 1, 2023

Community development lending is a critical tool for driving impact and building stronger communities, but it requires a deep understanding of regulatory compliance and risk management. Commercial lenders are entrenched in local communities customizing financing options to help businesses manage cash flow and operational risk.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Episode 76: Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Rethinking Community Development Strategy to Address Digital Inequity with Sarah Hope Marshall [link] Sarah Hope Marshall joins me here to reflect upon digital inequity in place-based community revitalization. government material) All rights reserved.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 4, 2023

Chris Spahr, Executive Director of the Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation , defines affordable housing as housing that can be made available to anyone and everyone no matter their economic status. About Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation. And we're here with Iron Sharpens Iron.

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GCN

MAY 6, 2024

COMMENTARY | A recent study of the Community Development Block Grant program showed that neighborhoods with the largest share of low- to moderate-income families were less likely to receive CDBG funds than communities that were closer to the 51% threshold.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Earlier this month, DFI examined how local governments in North Carolina have stepped in to make new affordable housing construction economically viable after a historic increase in construction costs and elevated interest rates. In response, developers increasingly relied on local governments to fill the financial shortfall.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 4, 2023

Chris Spahr, Executive Director of the Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation , defines affordable housing as housing that can be made available to anyone and everyone no matter their economic status. And we're here with Iron Sharpens Iron. And today our guest is, Could you introduce yourself? Well, great. Well, great.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

MARCH 15, 2023

As every NLC member knows, local government is unique. Local governments play a more significant factor in the daily lives of Americans than any other level of government. From community development to education to public health, cities administer essential programs that directly affect the lives of a wide spectrum of residents.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Meehan, 2014).

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Louis County Land Bank Coalition , which includes local community development corporations, neighborhood associations, the St. Louis County Board of Realtors, a housing advocacy nonprofit, legal aid, local elected and government officials, and residents. This month, Rep. HB 1088 would give all Missouri cities and St.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 8, 2022

It makes excellent points: -- that the throwback "design" hasn't been a special success economically (although I prefer it myself) or in terms of revitalization -- but it has helped to draw teams back to center city locations (although there are still exceptions, like the Atlanta Braves, and football teams) -- but that somewhat unrecognized, Camden (..)

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CRA Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JULY 29, 2022

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates. Can office buildings be repurposed or modernized through rehab?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Or from Urban Regime theory: An urban regime can be preliminarily defined as the informal arrangements through which a locality is governed (Stone 1989). Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. Prince Edward County, Ontario.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

How do your partnerships with local governments, nonprofits, and residents inform your community investments? Olivia Barrow Strauss, JPMorganChase: We believe that supporting thriving communities and robust local economies requires developing strong relationships with local partners.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Beyond its many financial and economic responsibilities, one of the stated key functions of the system is to promote community development through the regional Federal Reserve Banks. Together, they work to promote the effective operation of the U.S. economy and the overall public interest. White Furniture, Mebane, N.C.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 17, 2023

Government has been involved in supporting food systems for decades, but primarily through programs adopted at the federal level to both promote food production and protect the health of consumers. But having government work with food systems as a specific vehicle of local CED efforts? an intentional mix. an intentional mix.

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CRA Today

APRIL 11, 2024

Your next exam would highlight your participation in the program, and you would also account for the individual loans that were deployed under the program, either as small business lending performance or community development loan activities. I also discuss mining for other community development loans and “hooks”.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Are you looking to take your community development services to the next level? Episode 44: Economic Development as a Key to Community Development Services. Episode 42: I Bet You Are Underreporting Your Community Development Loans… Most Banks Are Too! Episode 29: How to Do the Undoable Deal.

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

To qualify a community development service, it has to have a primary purpose of community development, be offered on behalf of the bank, and must be related to the provision of financial services. 12(i)–3: What are examples of community development services? Refer to Q&A §ll.24(a)—1

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Maximize the Reporting of Community Development Activities; 2. Maximize the Reporting of Community Development Activities. Oftentimes, large (for CRA purposes) banks overlook transactions, such as loans and investments, that could qualify for consideration as community development activities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. Bias for action. Cincinnati.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York. They can break the cycle of disinvestment and decline and pave the way to more equitable, inclusive, and resilient communities.

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

From a CRA standpoint, we might be mining for community development loans, so it’s important to look at our commercial real estate portfolios, which may include NOAH. It’s important to work closely with your commercial real estate lenders to uncover transactions in a portfolio that would qualify as a community development loan.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

link] In a recent CRA fundamentals office hours session, we discussed current practices around community development services. One bank professional asked why, at her last bank, they counted the number of hours of qualified community development services, but at her current bank, they count both the number of occurrences and hours.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the very least, it has to be treated like a campaign,” said Michelle de la Uz, the executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, a Brooklyn-based community development corporation that develops and manages affordable housing, referring to building new development.

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Citizen Lab

MARCH 6, 2024

We launched our podcast, Public Square, to highlight the transformative stories of local governments worldwide. One episode features an engaging discussion with Aja Hazelhoff from the City of Seattle, focusing on the crucial integration of equitable engagement into comprehensive planning.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 22, 2023

In 2016, the government shuttered a large number of public schools across Puerto Rico, leaving hundreds of vacant school buildings as a result. In many disinvested communities, the people doing creative placemaking step up to be the responsible caretakers of a long-abandoned property needs—often before getting formal permission to do so.

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Episode 66: CRA Tips: Revisiting the Fundamentals: The Most Overlooked CD Hook [link] In this episode, we’re taking a deeper dive into the economic development hook, which is often an overlooked aspect of community development loans. government material) All rights reserved.

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