Resident-Owned CDFIs - Equitable Development Toolkit
Overview
Resident-owned community financial institutions build assets for low-income residents and provide them with a stronger voice in neighborhood development and revitalization. (2004)
Resident-owned community financial institutions build assets for low-income residents and provide them with a stronger voice in neighborhood development and revitalization. (2004)
Effective techniques employed by community-based organizations to preserve cultural organizations and longstanding commercial enterprises that define the historic character of communities. (2004)
Addresses urban agriculture efforts focused on serving low-income communities and communities of color. Shows how projects can improve access to healthy, affordable food for low-income communities and improve residents' health. (2011)
Protections to slow the pace of rapidly escalating rental prices. (2004)
Techniques through which tax regulations can limit two destabilizing practices in low- and moderate-income communities: delinquency and speculation. (2004)
Ensures that healthy local businesses owned by people of color are a basic component of strong, sustainable communities. (2004)
An array of strategies that connect economically marginalized communities to regional job opportunities. (2004)
Ordinances that ensure the employees of public contractors, private contractors receiving public sector funding, and public employees are paid wages at pace with regional cost of living measures. (2004)
Implement these laws to protect renters against being unfairly evicted by landlords who want to capitalize on the explosive rental and housing markets. (2004)
Infill incentives can produce new housing units, reduce blight, preserve open space, reduce traffic, and encourage retail development that serves the needs of existing residents. (2004)