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7/17/2017

While helping homebuyers, an organization gets a LIFT

Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of Baltimore, revitalizing neighborhoods through homeownership opportunities since 1974, recently increased its focus on lending as a line of business.

7/13/2017

Targeting loans to revitalize neighborhoods

Polk County, Iowa, faced a challenge: People who had the ability to be mobile moved. Those who didn't were stuck in housing too expensive to maintain.

7/12/2017

Farm workers become tenants in the nation's first certified zero net energy rentals

In California, where residential rental costs have significantly outpaced income growth, the housing crisis for agricultural workers and their families has long been at a crisis point

7/11/2017

Attracting homebuyers through mixed-income developments

Like many areas around the country, Montgomery County, Maryland, faced challenges in providing enough affordable housing to its residents, especially first-time homebuyers and county employees.

7/10/2017

Adopting technology to increase efficiency of internal operations and outreach

By adopting new technology, Housing Development Fund motivated staff to embrace changes and worked new technology into existing systems.

7/7/2017

Place-based strategies address multiple community priorities

To address include a lack of green space, limited access to healthy food and a significant number of previously incarcerated men whose past reduced access to employment and kept them disenfranchised from civic life.

7/6/2017

My front porch: from vacant to vibrant

La Casa De Don Pedro worked with residents to revitalize the community and transform vacant lots.

7/5/2017

Developing community leadership to meet local challenges

Transformative community revitalization efforts must include the engagement of local residents to be truly successful and avoid gentrification-triggered displacement.

6/30/2017

Putting race and social equity at the center

To promote equitable growth in the greater Seattle region, HomeSight organized a collaborative in 2010 that advocated for a race and social equity focus in the region's Sustainable Communities Planning grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.