This report from the LISC Community Research and Impact team describes COPA and TOPA policies at work and their outcomes in DC and San Francisco, implementation lessons, and evidence about the impact of these policies based on preliminary LISC analyses of housing market dynamics in New York City.
In this LISC research paper, based on candid interviews with 15 CVI leaders and analysis of existing literature, Dr. Shani Buggs, a national expert on CVI approaches social determinants of gun violence, and colleagues examine program strengths and challenges, and lay out detailed recommendations for supporting and enhancing the field.
This LISC report highlights commercial community ownership strategies and shares lessons and recommendations from groups working to preserve affordable space for small businesses and community organizations, build community wealth, and promote community-led economic development.
This report from LISC Research & Evaluation shows how Medicaid can fund community interventions to improve the social determinants of health. The model is paving the way for community-based organizations to collaborate with hospitals and insurers to promote health equity and lower healthcare costs in the bargain.
This LISC research report offers rigorous evidence that large landlords have reaped the greatest profits in communities of color, and that this speculation drives evictions and poor housing maintenance quality. But there’s good news too: affordable housing investments create better-maintained homes and remove buildings from the speculative market.
A report from LISC and Urban Institute describes how a NY State law, proceeds from an Attorney General settlement with banks, and an initiative from LISC helped NY communities turn the tide on vacant and “zombie” homes and prevent future foreclosures.
A playbook from LISC and Next City offers a framework for pursuing equitable pathways to small business success, and lays out contextualized strategies related to capital access, small business capacity, and commercial real estate. Two of its authors explain why that’s so important.
In A Home to Call Their Own, a report from LISC Research, author Gabriel Thompson, who has written extensively on farmworkers in California, profiles a range of people from the agricultural Coachella Valley whose lives were transformed through their participation in self-help housing.
In a new essay and workbook from David M. Greenberg, LISC's vice president for Knowledge Management and Strategy, practitioners are posed with two parallel questions: how can community development and activism enhance artistic and cultural work?
A new white paper from LISC's Research and Evaluation team offers quantitative and qualitative evidence of how intensive and collaborative community development in rural America raises standards of living and civic engagement in concrete and enduring ways.
This white paper examines the role of community organizations in responding to increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters, which are having a disproportionately harsh impact on historically underserved communities.
This white paper shows how LISC's ongoing work to support collaborative revitalization of industrial districts, in ways that promote equitable benefits for businesses and residents, helps bolster surrounding communities, even in the age of Covid-19.
In this white paper the LISC Research & Evaluation team examines recent outcomes for Financial Opportunity Center (FOC) participants to assess the early success of the Bridges to Career Opportunities (BCO) model.
This LISC research report looks at efforts of intermediaries to advance equity considering the needs of local organizations and also citywide actors and the public sector. The goal is to learn how intermediaries can build the capacity of entire systems to promote equitable outcomes.