Publications & Research

As part of our efforts to build the capacity of nonprofits to use shared equity and cooperative housing strategies to preserve long-term affordable housing, build wealth for low-income families and promote neighborhood stabilization, we produced this guide to serve as a starting point for organizations and community leaders. We offer a set of guiding questions and considerations that should be noted when exploring the benefits and tradeoffs of pursuing shared equity housing models. 

The pandemic has driven home the importance of housing and community developers as partners in health. Resources from NeighborWorks America help everyone understand each other a little better.

As part of our Native Commitment to leverage NeighborWorks America's expertise and strengths to support practitioners and partner organizations in the Native community development field, we offer this scan as an industry tool to bring to light opportunities and areas for consideration in the Native housing and community development training industry. 

Homelessness comes at a great cost to individual and community health, worsening health outcomes that lead to higher rates of chronic illness.

NeighborWorks America and the Center for the Study of Social Policy share lessons learned and recommendations gathered following a year-long exploration of ways to deepen local partnerships and improve child development outcomes through community development strategies. 

Social isolation can reduce access to support systems, sense of security and affordable community services, undermining mental and physical health and reducing quality of life. As a growing epidemic in the U.S., social isolation and loneliness increase a person’s risk of premature death, is associated with increased risk of dementia, and can lead to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide.

When it comes to determining one’s health, ZIP Code is more important than genetic code; community development is in the ZIP Code improvement business. This series of fact sheets from NeighborWorks America and the Build Healthy Places Network highlights the common aims, evidence base, and what works for health and community development.

The goal of eviction prevention is continued housing stability. 

Between September 2018 and August 2019, NeighborWorks brought together five organizations to explore approaches to challenges in rural areas with the overarching goal of field building, working collectively to tease out best practices, improve outcomes and present learnings to inform efforts in the NeighborWorks network and the community development and rural fields.

NeighborWorks America developed the Financial Capability Learning Lab to provide six NeighborWorks organizations with the opportunity to test and launch new strategies to address critical marketplace needs and help move the field forward.