3rd Just Economy Conversation; Community Land Trusts; Green Workforce; Black Developers; Fair Housing Month

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for May 2, 2025

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Announcements

NCRC's 3rd Just Economy Conversation: New Frontiers In Financing Homes

May 6, 2 - 3:30 pm ET

Innovation, technology and shared equity are reshaping access to homeownership and creating new pathways for building wealth. With $44 trillion of US wealth tied up in housing, a new generation of tools and approaches offer alternatives to traditional ownership structures. Our panelists are leading efforts to integrate policy, technology, and community-driven investment strategies that keep homes in the hands of families and neighbors, not corporations. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]

Views

How Community Land Trusts Create Lasting Change

By Akin Olla

During the Civil Rights Movement, activists sought out ways to secure long-term economic stability for Black communities facing systemic dispossession. One lasting solution they developed was the community land trust (CLT), a model designed to ensure collective land ownership and permanent housing affordability. Learn more about several of NCRC member organizations creating economic opportunity and housing stability for communities across the country through the CLT model. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Cultivating A Green Workforce In Bridgeport

By Jennifer Bardi

For the past two decades, Adrienne Farrar Houël and her colleagues at Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises have been anything but idle when it comes to creating environmental social impact projects in Bridgeport’s most historically disadvantaged communities. Learn more about this NCRC member organization's important work bridging the gap between the need for a more climate resilient local infrastructure and the creation of more sustainable workforce development pathways. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Black Developers Collective Aims To Keep The Black Dollar In The Community

By Kristy Eaton

The complex dynamics of how local capital circulates in a community can vary tremendously between wealthier neighborhoods and lower-income areas. Learn more about NCRC member organization Pierce County Community Land Trust's creation of a local Black developers collective in Tacoma, Washington with the goal of providing a more economically sustainable ecosystem in historically underserved Black communities. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Fair Housing Month Spotlight: Fighting Back with Testing and Local Action

By Victoria Hausch, NCRC

Every April, Fair Housing Month gives us the chance to reflect on both the progress we’ve made as a country toward realizing housing equity and the challenges that remain. Discrimination in housing has not disappeared and, in many ways, it has simply changed form. That is why the tools NCRC uses to identify and address discrimination have needed to evolve as well. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Videos

Dreaming Big in Our Own Backyards At The 2025 Just Economy Conference

By NCRC

Dreaming Big in Our Own Backyards: Bold, Local Action in a Hostile Federal Environment At The 2025 Just Economy Conference; a conversation about systemic racism and structural inequality and how communities can take their power back. [Watch here ([link removed] ) ]

Events

NAWDP 41st Annual Conference

May 5, 10 am - 5:00 pm ET

Join NCRC’s Workforce Development Program Manager, Doug Mollett, as he speaks on the panel “Small Business Partnerships and the Economic Mobility of Single Mothers” at the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) 41st Annual Conference in Virginia Beach, VA, on Monday, May 5. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]

Is Manufactured Housing The Answer To Affordability Challenges In Your Community?

May 13, 2 - 3:30 pm ET

Helping clients build wealth through homeownership is a primary goal for most housing counselors. However, for many households, factors like low inventory and rising mortgage rates are making the dream of owning a traditional single-family home increasingly difficult to achieve. As buyers search for alternatives, manufactured housing has gained attention as a potential solution to today’s affordability challenges. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]

In The News

Advocates Respond To Civil Rights Rollback At National Conference

by Steve Dubb, Nonprofit Quarterly

The conference offered a time and place to take stock of the present diminished state of civil rights in the United States, as well as planning how to build power going forward. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

On Our Radar

Mayor Adams' Administration Proposes Rent Hike For People With NYC Housing Vouchers

By David Brand, Gothamist

The rule change is an attempt to curb the housing program's rising costs and would apply to tenants with jobs who renew their vouchers after an initial five-year period — about a quarter of recipients, officials said. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Resources

Work And Meet At The Just Economy Club

It's a DC hub for nonprofits and the social sector, around the corner from the White House. Move your team into a private office or host your meetings and events. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

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Research And Reports

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Fair Lending Tool

Use our interactive tool to produce a report on mortgages, small business lending and bank branch networks for any city, county or metro area in the nation. [Access the tool here ([link removed] ) ]

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