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]
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Resources
Work And Meet At The Just Economy Club It's aDC hubfor 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]
Learning & Training Hub Register for NCRC's catalog of professional development courses.[Learn more]
Research And Reports We have an extensive library of research and reports that dates back many years![View all]
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]
Sign And Share The Just Economy Pledge Help us expand the movement for a Just Economy. [Sign and Share]
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