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VIDEO | Fair Housing: What It Means and Why It Matters

Where a person lives matters—a ZIP Code can often predict a person's likely economic, health, education, and life outcomes. In this video, Raphael Bostic, president of the Atlanta Fed, discusses why fair housing matters, reflects on the legacy of housing discrimination, and describes the progress made to prevent housing discrimination and further fair housing as well as what remains to be done. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 made it illegal to discriminate in the sale or rental of housing, including against individuals seeking a mortgage or housing assistance, or in other housing-related activities, based on a person's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. Yet 50 years after the passage of this landmark legislation, housing remains segregated by race and income in many neighborhoods across the United States.

posted 05/23/2019 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Board of Governors

Access: A Community Development Podcast from the Federal Reserve

This podcast asks community members and organizations across the U.S. about the challenges they are facing and solutions they’ve found for significant social issues like economic mobility, affordable housing, small business development and community reinvestment. Each episode showcases programs that help provide access to opportunity for low- and moderate-income individuals and families. The latest episode, "Access to Local Food Systems as a Rural Economic Driver," features an organization that bolsters regional agricultural enterprises to create jobs in rural areas. All episodes are available at accesspodcast.org or on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn.

posted 10/11/2018 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Board of Governors

Connecting Communities Webinar: Mitigating Neighborhood Blight

This Connecting Communities® webinar, produced in November 2017, highlights two innovative programs and a policy strategy that offers working solutions to mitigate the impact of blight, vacancy and abandonment in distressed communities across the country. Presenters include Kim Graziani, Center for Community Progress; Steve Lockwood, Frayser Community Development Corp.; Krysta Pate, Detroit Home Mortgage; and Matt Josephs, LISC.

posted 10/17/2017 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Board of Governors

Virginia: Highlights from Abingdon

This article highlights the 8th consecutive gathering of the Appalachian Funders Network (AFN). Foundations and grant makers met in Central Appalachia to participate in a working meeting about aligning their investment resources.

posted 06/12/2017 by Richmond

Preserving Affordable Rural Rental Housing: New Tools and Promising Practices

This Connecting Communities® webinar focuses on recently released data and tools that can help community organizations and their partners better understand the current landscape of affordable rural rental housing. Presenters include Elizabeth Nash, PolicyMap; Bryan Hooper, USDA Rural Housing Service; and Rick Goodemann, Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership.

posted 04/18/2017 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Board of Governors

Community Reinvestment Act Video

The following video presents information on the Small Bank and Intermediate Small Bank CRA Examination. The Community Reinvestment Act encourages depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations.

posted 03/31/2017 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco

Responding to Gentrification and Displacement in Urban Communities

Tune in to this May 12, 2016, Connecting Communities® webinar discussing gentrification and displacement in community development and urban revitalization. Presenters discuss how equitable and inclusive development policies and practices have supported commercial, residential and transit growth and community revitalization. They include Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy; Harry Smith, Dudley Neighbors Inc.; and John Chin, Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation.

posted 04/22/2016 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Board of Governors

TexasColonias.org

A website that accompanies the Dallas Fed study, "Las Colonias in the 21st Century: Progress Along the Texas-Mexico Border," which examines successes and challenges in infrastructure, housing, economic opportunity, education and health in Texas colonias. The site features a report, video, photos, success stories, data, legislation information and related resources.

posted 01/22/2016 by Dallas

Community Development Data Inventory

Published by the Philadelphia Fed, the Community Development Data Inventory describes timely and publicly available data sources to help inform the work of those involved in community development research or practice. This November 2015 release contains updated information and an expanded number in the inventory, from 16 resources to 24. The resources are described in easy-to-read, two-page summaries organized by topic, including Economy/Employment, Household Financial Stability, Housing/Homelessness, and Data/Mapping Platforms.

posted 11/10/2015 by Philadelphia

How Do HRAs Serve Their Communities?

In this video supplement to the July 2015 issue of the Minneapolis Fed's Community Dividend publication, learn how housing and redevelopment agencies, or HRAs, partner with the public and private sectors to address local affordable housing and economic development needs.

posted 08/14/2015 by Minneapolis

VIDEO | Las Colonias in the 21st Century: Progress Along the Texas–Mexico Border

In 2015, the Dallas Fed released “Las Colonias in the 21st Century: Progress Along the Texas–Mexico Border,” a report that examines infrastructure, housing, economic opportunity, education and health in Texas border colonias. This video provides an overview of successes and challenges in the colonias as well as promising strategies to improve living conditions and access to opportunity in these communities.

posted 08/04/2015 by Dallas

How Can a CDC Transform a Neighborhood Through Affordable Housing?

In this video supplement to the April 2015 issue of the Minneapolis Fed's Community Dividend publication, Mary Keefe, executive director of Minneapolis-based community development corporation Hope Community, describes how her organization is using affordable housing to revitalize a once-abandoned intersection in the inner city.

posted 04/28/2015 by Minneapolis

Spotlight on the Fed’s Community Development Work and a Discussion of Promising Opportunities for the Field

Learn more about the latest trends in community development in this one-hour Connecting Communities® webinar, held on July 10, 2014. National experts discuss ways the Federal Reserve promotes community development, and point to promising approaches and useful industry resources.

posted 07/02/2014 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Board of Governors

2014 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference

This conference is the premier training and networking event for community development professionals, including CRA officers, CDFIs, nonprofits and government officials. The 2014 program featured a keynote presentation by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen; innovations in community development policy and practice; CRA examination training; the National Community Development Lending School; and Community development tours of Chicago. Click to watch videos of keynotes, select sessions, and attendee interviews.

posted 05/22/2014 by Chicago, San Francisco

Reinventing Older Communities: Bridging Growth & Opportunity

In May 2014 the Philadelphia Fed and its cosponsors hosted the sixth biennial Reinventing Older Communities conference in Philadelphia, bringing together 465 community development stakeholders, bankers, government, business, and foundation leaders, policymakers, researchers and students from 25 states and the District of Columbia. The theme of the conference, Bridging Growth and Opportunity, was explored through plenary discussions, concurrent workshops, and keynote addresses, with an emphasis on innovative strategies and tools that create opportunity-rich communities inclusive of low- and moderate-income people. Presentations, audiorecordings and videos are available on the Philadelphia Fed’s Reinventing Older Communities website.

posted 05/22/2014 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis

Effective Land Banking Strategies for Different Housing Markets

Land banks have emerged as flexible housing-stabilization tools used to manage excess residential property. Tune in to this Connecting Communities audioconference to explore how land banks can best operate, given their local housing and demographic conditions.

posted 05/14/2014 by Minneapolis

From Recession Through Recovery: The changing conditions of low- to moderate-income America

This Connecting Communities audioconference, hosted by the Kansas City Fed, presents findings from quarterly survey data on how the low- and moderate-income (LMI) population has been affected by the Great Recession and subsequent recovery.

posted 05/14/2014 by Kansas City

Eighth District Housing Market Update

Presenters for this Exploring Innovation in Community Development audioconference discussed the outlook for the economy, housing markets and mortgage performance in the Eighth Federal Reserve District and the nation. They take a detailed look at home prices, mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures, and described the necessary conditions for these markets to stabilize. Produced in November 2012.

posted 04/23/2014 by St. Louis

Regional Home Ownership Preservation Initiative

This blog provides a recap of the conference held in January 2013, entitled, “Single-Family Rental Housing: Managing the Next Step of the Foreclosure Crisis”, which focused on Chicago’s affordable rental housing market (single-family to 50-unit buildings). The conference was hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and organized by the Woodstock Institute and other partners in the Regional Home Ownership Preservation Initiative (RHOPI).

posted 04/23/2014 by Chicago

The Central Premise

From the nation’s central bank comes a team of bloggers with a central premise: The Fed works toward the economic well-being of all. Join us for a discussion of what’s going on in our economy and our communities. Share your thoughts within the reply section of the blog hosted by the Boston Fed. We want to hear from you.

posted 04/22/2014 by Boston

Working Cities Challenge

Together with Living Cities, the Boston Fed launched a unique challenge to smaller industrial cities in the Northeast: Expand collaborative leadership that leads to a comprehensive city vision and cross-sectoral partnerships. Cities competed for grant monies to fund their ideas. Learn more about the Working Cities Challenge -- which cities' bold platforms are being funded, and how might their futures, and those of their residents, be improved.

posted 02/11/2014 by Boston

Redefining RustBelt: The Role of Anchor Institutions and the Arts

This Connecting Communities audioconference featured the work that four Federal Reserve Banks (Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, and Richmond) have done to create a dialogue for older industrial cities that are working to attract new residents and investments. The session also focused on how anchor institutions can play a role in redefining communities. Speakers featured in this session included: Ted Howard, The Democracy Collaborative; Ellen Janes, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Mary Helen Petrus, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Amy Lempert, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; and Robin Newberger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

posted 12/31/2013 by Cleveland

Resilience and Rebuilding for Low-Income Communities: Research to Inform Policy and Practice

The 2013 Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference presented a unique forum for discussing key research, program, and policy strategies aimed at improving resiliency and rebuilding in low-income households and neighborhoods. The post-event materials include papers, presentations and videos; keynote remarks, speaker biographies and poster presentations,

posted 12/31/2013 by Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Board of Governors

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