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“Community Strategies for Systems Change”: Andre Perry Kicks Off LISC-NPQ Series
Author and Brookings Senior Fellow Andre Perry, who has collaborated with LISC on the work to upend racially biased real estate appraisals, inaugurates a seven-essay series from LISC and NPQ, “Community Strategies for Systems Change.” Perry's article dissects how progressive grassroots action can lead to critical policy change and, pointing to the upcoming series, authored …
The State of Our Industry
The National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations (NACEDA) has launched a three-year assessment of the health of the community development field—a critical undertaking for our industry if we want to get the right resources to where they are most needed. Shelterforce, along with the rest of us, is tracking the project, and spoke to …
Why It’s So Hard to Build Affordable Housing on Church Land, and How To Do It Anyway
Churches and other mission-driven institutions that want to build affordable housing for their communities on land they own face a punitively complex and fraught development process, with an enormous learning curve. A piece by the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate, KQED, explores the efforts of San Francisco churches to create affordable housing and how LISC is …