Reengineering Community Development for the 21st Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (383 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Whither Community Development: An Introduction -- Part 1. Community Development Financial Institutions -- 2. Evolving Roles of Mission-Focused and Mainstream Financial Organizations: Implications for the Scale and Sustainability of CDFIs -- 3. When Subsidy Becomes Scarce: Rethinking Community Development Finance -- 4. CDFIs "Make the Market" for Charter School Facilities Financing -- 5. The Case for the Community Partner in Economic Development -- 6. Research Design Issues for Measuring CDFI Performance and Impact -- 7. Social Performance Measurement for CDFI Banks -- Part 2. Asset Building -- 8. Stubborn and Persistent Lending Disparities -- 9. The Assets Framework: Moving Toward Transformative Transactions -- 10. Connecting Asset Building and Community Development -- 11. Innovation in State Government: Pennsylvania's Financial Education Office -- Part 3. Capacity Building and Citizen Engagement -- 12. Community Capacity Building Through Strategic Philanthropy at the United Way -- 13. Building Community Capacity Through Multisector Collaborations -- 14. Southern Bancorp's Model for Community Economic Development: The Delta Bridge Project -- 15. Effective Civic Engagement: Lessons from the Seattle School District-A Memoir -- Part 4. Federal Policy -- 16. Reforming CDBG: An Illusive Quest -- 17. Rethinking Federal Low-Income Housing Policies -- Part 5. Smart Growth and Land Use -- 18. Smart Growth and Community Investment: Confronting Suburban Decline in Baltimore -- 19. Positive Cycling: Riding Our Bicycles Down the Path to Community Development Success -- Part 6. Affordable Housing -- 20. Aging-Out and Foster Care: Housing Policy -- 21. Would the Adoption of Land Value Taxation Drive Down the Price of Land and Increase Housing Affordability?. Part 7. Crime and Development -- 22. Crime's Impact on the Viability of Young Urban Small Businesses -- 23. Courts, Equity, and Community Development -- Appendix: Redevelopment's Trend Away from Eminent Domain -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Offers insights into various developments in community development financing and performance management. This book shows how community development organizations and programs are offering many fresh services, entering into fresh partnerships, developing extensive networks, and attracting alternative sources of funding.