This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Community development in America is at a pivotal moment.

In my journey from a community development funder to a practitioner, I saw that many of us don’t fit within traditional definitions of community development. That exclusion is not by chance; it is ...

The 2025 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report details how Marietta used its Community Development Block ...

Tannersville is enjoying growing success as a tourism and second-home destination. But that’s putting already scarce housing stock out of reach for many people who live and work there. Employers ...

The Association for Neighborhood Housing & Development, or ANHD—founded in the 1970s to reclaim the growing number of burned and abandoned apartment buildings across the city— turns 50 this year. City ...

SANFORD, Fla. — For the past two years, our investigative team has introduced you to families across the state still waiting to get home after their homes were destroyed by Hurricane Irma in 2017. The ...

Rob Lockett isn’t just leading LISC Detroit—he’s reshaping how community development works in a city poised for transformation. Since stepping into the Executive Director role in late 2024, Lockett ...

As someone who spent several years as a workers’ rights organizer, Fredy Amador is intimately familiar with the financial struggles people face in the current economy. Northern Illinois’ skyrocketing ...