Alexander von Hoffman, Matthew Arck
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April 11, 2017
In 2013 three CDFIs — IFF (originally named the Illinois Facilities Fund), Nonprofits Assistance Fund (NAF), and Cincinnati Development Fund (CDF) — formed the Midwest…
A common root of political opposition to new housing development is spatial proximity or NIMBYism (`Not In My Back Yard’), where individuals may support new supply in general…
Alina Schnake-Mahl, Sarah Norman
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January 30, 2017
During the past fifty years, community development organizations have worked in low-income communities that face the greatest barriers to good health. While recent changes in…
Aaron Gornstein, China Boak Terrell
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July 12, 2016
This paper explores the lessons that five permanent supportive housing providers have learned from serving various homeless populations in Massachusetts. Specifically, the…
This following paper explores what housing organizations can gain from engaging in partnership-driven forms of comprehensive community development. It specifically looks at…
Rapid and widespread gentrification in US neighborhoods in recent decades has provoked debate over its relationship to neighborhood racial and ethnic composition. Empirical…
Jonathan Spader, Jenny Schuetz, Alvaro Cortes
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August 28, 2015
The relationship between neighborhood physical environment and social disorder, particularly crime, is of critical interest to urban economists and sociologists, as well as…
W15-3: This paper aims to make recommendations for the design of nonprofit-based programs for the replacement of older, substandard manufactured housing. It begins with…
W15-1: This study examines trajectories of foreclosed properties in areas severely impacted by the foreclosure crisis and their association with local crime and disorder…
