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Stable living leads to stable communities. Way to go CoAction (and partners) for this investment.

Tennessee is taking bold steps to revitalize its urban centers! The state has just allocated $4.76 million in Downtown Improvement Grants to 18 communities, including Murfreesboro. 🎉 This strategic investment aims to enhance economic development, boost tourism and create job opportunities across the state. These grants will fund crucial improvements in building facades, signage and streetscapes. It's a testament to Tennessee's commitment to sustainable growth and community development. Discover how this initiative will transform our downtowns and drive long-term prosperity: https://loom.ly/lfzI4UU.

We’re honored to support the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in launching $40.7 million in CDBG-DR Workforce Development grants for communities rebuilding after the 2018 wildfires. These investments create critical opportunities, including: - Training residents for construction and healthcare careers through Paradise RISE - Wildfire resilience and healthcare workforce development programs in Lake and Ventura Counties - Initiatives in Los Angeles and Shasta Counties opening pathways in trades, emergency response, and more. As HCD's grants management partner, Civix is proud to help design and implement these critical programs supporting economic recovery and community resilience. 🔗 Read more about these initiatives https://hubs.ly/Q02_NMc00

"When housing is taken care of, when that basic need is taken care of, we put down roots and allow our families and our communities to grow and to thrive – and to do better.” Growing opportunities for residents to live and thrive. Advocating for equity and opportunity while investing in housing. Strengthening relationships to minimize gentrification and sustain community-owned spaces for BIPOC Bostonians. This is how we advance community wealth. In this video from our Pathways to Equity series, Associate Vice President Soni Gupta and Tanya Hahnel of the East Boston Community Development Corporation discuss the East Boston Neighborhood Trust, which protected the affordability of over 100 housing units in East Boston, and the continuing effort to protect and expand housing affordability in Greater Boston. Thank you to Tanya and the EBCDC team and thanks to EmVision Productions for showcasing the importance of affordable rental housing to allow our community to thrive.

A few months ago, Mayor Mike Duggan highlighted an important milestone in Detroit's revitalization: creating "a city where people of all income levels are able to live in any neighborhood." The West Euclid Gateway project, which we proudly supported, will bring 20 fully renovated affordable housing units to Detroit's Virginia Park neighborhood. Working together with partners at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Detroit Housing for the Future Authority, as well as CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC and 360 DETROIT, we're creating quality homes for families that breathe new life into the community. As Darnell Adams, our VP of Detroit Community Initiatives, shared: "Our mission is to drive inclusive growth and opportunity within Detroit's neighborhoods." This project exemplifies that commitment by providing quality, affordable housing and supporting vital neighborhood nonprofits. This collaborative project is bringing much-needed, affordable multifamily housing to the area... as well as building community, opportunity, and hope. Learn More: https://bit.ly/3MRuZfx

With our newly adopted Community Improvement Plan (CIP) for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Design, Richmond Hill is taking significant steps to promote affordable housing in the city. The CIP is one of the initiatives Richmond Hill is pursuing as a part of its $31 million Housing Accelerator Fund and it will be launched in early 2025 to incentivize landowners and developers to help address housing affordability and environmental sustainability in the city. News release: https://bit.ly/3CQrtQX

THE HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IN AMERICA CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD: BROKEN #HOMELESSNESS IS THE RESULT OF DECADES OF THE FAILURE TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ALL. DON'T BE FOOLED BY SLICK PROMOTIONAL POSTS THAT MAKE IT SEEM LIKE YOUR LOCAL, STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS ARE SOLVING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS. WHEN IT COMES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THE PUBLIC AND TAXPAYERS MUST ASK: AT WHAT COST TO THE TAXPAYERS AND HOW LONG IS THE AFFORDABILITY PERIOD? EVERY TAXPAYER SHOULD BE ASKING THEIR ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1. How much local, state, and federal funding, tax credits, density bonus increase, waivers of impact fees, or other government benefit or incentive did the project receive? 2. What is the affordability period for each project and, if the affordability period is not in perpetuity or permanent, WHY NOT? 3. What guarantees exist that tenants in the affordable housing units will not be displaced after an "affordability period expires? Any LOCAL, STATE or FEDERAL official that does not MANDATE "permanent" affordability periods or affordability "IN PERPETUITY" for any project receiving some government benefit is commiting MALFEASANCE and should quit, be removed from office or be terminated. IN MOST CASES WHEN IT COMES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING, the public and taxpayer are being fooled into thinking their elected and appointed officials are solving problems, when in fact, all hey have done is "KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD" to burden a future generation with the same problem or crisis!

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How you do define "risk" and "return" in finance? Let's explore the nuance and impact as we apply these notions to the communities we serve and how we as practitioners and mobilizers of capital can shift to reimagine a future that is possible. Join us today!

Something happened to Dearborn County. We used to be the community which let our historic downtowns deteriorate. We ignored -- if not abhorred -- the Ohio River. We didn't see much value in artistic and cultural offerings. We had an aversion to working together. Whether it is the IEDC READI program or the recently relaunched OCRA Stellar Pathways program, we are often told that our communities need to go bigger, bolder, and more transformational with our investments and future planning. If you sit back and take inventory, you will realize Dearborn County is already well down this path. Have you seen East Central High School's new natatorium? The snow-making innovation at Perfect North Slopes? What about the concepts for the City of Lawrenceburg Riverwalk project? Or do we realize the milestone that is the new, state-of-the-art cancer center which St. Elizabeth Healthcare just opened in Greendale? We even have one of the most popular night clubs in the Cincinnati area at Hollywood Casino's Boogie Nights. All this right here in lil' ol' Dearborn County. What got into us? What changed our "Humble Hoosier" mentality? Some might say it is just the result of riverboat gaming or Cincinnati's urban sprawl and population growth spilling over state lines into Dearborn County. If you ask me, it came down to visionary leadership and innovators. People which we at One Dearborn have the fortune to engage with each day. We shouldn't scoff at big ideas which appear beyond our grasp. As our track record shows, with the proper buy-in and prioritization, such ideas are more achievable in Dearborn County and Southeast Indiana than we give ourselves credit for. For Dearborn County to succeed in becoming an Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs #StellarPathways designee, we'll need people of many backgrounds, ideas, and desires for our communities to be thoughtfully engaged. It's a big table. I hope you'll pull up a chair.