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8/1/2017

Homesharing meets challenges for homeowners and renters

Both homeowners and renters can face financial challenges. For renters on limited incomes, a history of bad credit or evictions can limit options, and high-interest debt can limit housing budgets. Homeowners may struggle with mortgage payments and other expenses. Is there a solution to address the issues on both sides?

7/31/2017

The Westside Leadership Institute: Empowering a neighborhood by fostering self-reliance

NeighborWorks Salt Lake developed the Westside Leadership Institute to cultivate and develop leadership in target neighborhoods and engage their diverse residents.

7/28/2017

Mobilizing the community toward a plan for action

Many homes in the oldest neighborhoods in Lincoln, Nebraska were converted to poorly maintained apartments. Some residents wanted to preserve the old homes and crumbling neighborhoods, but building an effective coalition to effect change in the highly diverse community, where 90 percent of the properties were rentals proved daunting.

7/27/2017

Western New York regional consolidation: The road less traveled

In response to a looming crisis, four independent CDCs in Western New York consolidated in 2015, using an innovative structure unprecedented in nonprofit mergers.

7/26/2017

Investing in employees pays off

Talented staff at nonprofits with limited budgets often leave for higher-paying jobs in private industry. To fulfill its mission to the community and stay competitive as an employer Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services addresses the need to attract and retain diverse and talented staff, reduce turnover rates and improve job satisfaction.

7/25/2017

ClimateCARE: Engaging a vulnerable community to face climate change threats

Pollution, rising sea levels and climate change threaten East Boston. The majority of the 40,000 residents in the neighborhood are immigrants and people of color who faced social, economic and linguistic barriers to understand and address these issues until the Neighborhood of Affordable Housing's inclusive community engagement process began.

7/24/2017

Working together to create a difference

Community revitalization is most effective when partners from all levels work together. Yet, due to years of minimal funding and competition among agencies, there were few examples of that in the city of San Bernardino, CA, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

7/21/2017

Cross-sector collaboration helps seniors age in place

Aging residents are often isolated in their homes and invisible to the various government and nonprofit programs designed to help them. The challenge, however, is to connect the aging-in-place population to the resources critical to their health and safety.

7/20/2017

Strengthening communities by creating lasting and responsible homeownership

The Housing Partnership for Morris County found a creative way to make homeownership a realistic long-term affordable option.

7/19/2017

Forgivable loans: A uniquely effective strategy in expanding opportunities for wealth accumulation

To meet New York City's affordable housing challenge, Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City (NHSNYC) offers integrated homeownership services that help low- and moderate-income families.

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