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| A Changed Neighborhood Reinvestment
Corporation Intervention Strategy for Puerto Rico —Concept
Paper [PDF, 50.7 KB] |
| This paper presents an analysis of the community development field and of NeighborWorks organizations in Puerto Rico as a conceptual framework for developing a changed intervention strategy by Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. By Túbal Padilla Galiano, management consultant. (2000, 10 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Affordability and the Funding Gap Trends among Low- and Moderate-Income Households, 1995-2005 [PDF, 357 KB] |
By Doug Foster. This paper develops an affordability-based housing market typology, into which markets can be sorted, and to which homeownership policy approaches can be matched. (January 2007, 39 pages). |
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| Aging in Place—Coordinating Housing
and Health Care Provision for America's Growing Elderly Population [PDF, 570 KB] |
| The issue of how people can age in place in a safe, healthy and dignified manner is a front-burner issue, especially for the poor, frail elderly who live in communities served by the NeighborWorks network and by other community-based housing and health-care entities. The Southern District office of Neighborhood Reinvestment convened practitioners in the fields of housing, healthcare and supportive services to address this issue. (2002) Print copy available, Item 42007 | view summary |
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Aging in Place—Solutions to a Crisis
in Housing and Care -- An Issues Update
[PDF, 650 KB] |
| The issue of how people can age in place in a safe, healthy and dignified manner is a front-burner issue, especially for the poor, frail elderly who live in communities served by the NeighborWorks network and by other community-based housing and health-care entities. The Southern District office of Neighborhood Reinvestment convened practitioners in the fields of housing, healthcare and supportive services to address this issue. (2002) Print copy available, Item 42007 | view summary |
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| America 's Working Communities and the
Impact of Multifamily Housing |
| Alexander von Hoffman, Eric Belsky, James DeNormandie, and Rachel Bratt;
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Print copy available, Item 54575 | view summary |
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| An Assessment of NIA's (NITF) Insurance
Education [PDF, 140 KB] |
| Through resident focus groups and community development practitioner surveys, the NITF (now NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance) was able to assess the overall impact its Certified Insurance Counseling Training Program is having in the community development field as a whole, and within local communities. This report details the significance of insurance education programs and the role they play in improving the quality of life for low-income residents. (2002) | Print copy not available. |
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| An Examination of Manufactured Housing
as a Community- and Asset-Building Strategy [PDF, 1.25 MB] William Apgar, Allegra Calder, Mark Duda, Joint Center for Housing Studies; Michael Collins, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. (2002, 65 pages) | Print copy available, Item 42123 | view summary |
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| Annotated Bibliography for
Financial Fitness Education [PDF, 756 KB] |
| Lists general resources and start-up guides for financial literacy, key organizations and their Web sites, programs of the Cooperative Extension Services, and books and periodicals. Separate listings for home-ownership education, micro-enterprise development and job training and education. ( 1999, 37 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Assessing Property Management for Affordable Housing [PDF, 257 KB] |
Marc Diaz, Fellowship Program for Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development. The report compares self-management and third-party property management of nonprofit-owned, affordable multifamily rental housing. Print copy not available. |
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Best Practices for Small and Rural New England Property Management Firms
[PDF, 283 KB] Prepared by NeighborWorks America by Judy Weber, CPM®, J. Weber Consulting and Laurie Gould, Gould Consulting, (2002) | Print copy not available. |
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Bridging the Organizational
Divide - The Making of a Nonprofit Merger [PDF, 257 KB]
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Bridging Sectors: Partnerships Between Nonprofits and Private Developers
[PDF, 283 KB]
Through a review of current literature and interviews with housing thought leaders, nonprofits, private developers, affordable housing capital sources and others, this paper explores multifamily rental housing development partnerships. Print copy not available. |
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| The Case for Rental Housing – A Nonprofit Perspective [PDF, 365 KB] Written by Liza Khan, Fellowship Program for Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development, Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. The paper identifies internal and external drivers that shape the decisions of nonprofit organizations in entering the business environment of affordable rental housing creation and preservation. (October, 2005) |
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| Changes in Bankruptcy Laws: Implications for Homebuyer Programs [PDF, 163 KB] |
NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership This issue brief describes changes to bankruptcy laws made effective in 2005, including an overview of the bankruptcy process under Chapter 7, 11 and 13; an overview of recent changes in the law; the potential implications of the law for community-based homeownership counseling organizations; and the role of credit counseling services required by the bankruptcy laws.
(September 2005, 5 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Changing Minds, Building Communities: Advancing Affordable Housing through Communications Campaigns [PDF, 3.79 MB] (May 2004) | Print copy not available. |
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Collateral Damage: The Municipal Impact of Today’s Mortgage Foreclosure Boom
[PDF, 245 KB] by William C. Apgar and Mark Duda. (May 2005) | Print copy not available. |
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| Community Development Corporations and
Smart Growth:Putting Policy into Practice [MS Word, 445 KB] |
| This research paper explores the underlying, complementary relationships between neighborhood-focused community-based development organizations and regionally focused Smart Growth advocates. The paper was written as part of Neighborhood Reinvestment's Fellowship Program for Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development. ( 2000, 54 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Community Development in Dynamic Neighborhoods:
Synchronizing Services and Strategies with Immigrant Communities [PDF, 156 KB] by Catherine Fernandez (2003, 41 pages) | Print copy available, Item 53238 | view summary
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| Community Organizing in NeighborWorks
Organizations [PDF, 3.08 MB] |
| A report on the Community Organizing Pilot Program (2001-2004) of the NeighborWorks Resident Leadership Initiative. (2004, 24 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Credit and Homeowners Insurance: NIA's
Experience from an Insurer-Community Partnership Perspective [PDF, 374 KB] |
| Credit is increasingly a financial fact of life. It is also a topic that has been included in a variety of financial programs that partner with the NIA. The purpose of this report is to capture the experience of NIA and to provide information and resources aimed at fostering additional understanding of this issue. This report is the first formal response of NIA regarding insurance scoring. (2002) | Print copy not available. |
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| Credit Union Partnerships with NeighborWorks
Organizations: Proven Models for Success [PDF, 253 KB] |
| By Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership, and National Credit Union Administration. (2003, 30 pages) | Print copy available, Item 53979 | view summary |
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| Demonstrating Our Values, Impact and Effectiveness: Final Report of the NeighborWorks Community Organizing Pilot Program [PDF, 2.41 MB] |
| The NeighborWorks Community Building & Organizing Initiative presents three years of research among 18 NeighborWorks organizations on the impact of community organizing as a community development and revitalization strategy. To order a printed copy, contact Lindsay Wells at lwells@nw.org. (September 2005, 28 pages). |
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| Dreams Foreclosed: The Rampant Theft of Americans' Homes Through Equity-Stripping Foreclosure 'Rescue' Scams [PDF, 3.7 MB] |
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Early Conclusions from The Mixed-Income Demonstration Program: Reaching Extremely Low-Income Families in Mixed-Income Settings [PDF, 483 KB] Highlights of 17 grant applications for a special $5 million, mixed-income demonstration program that explored approaches for serving households with incomes less than 30 percent of the area median (“extremely low income” or “ELI” households) in mixed-income communities. Also included are working conclusions from experience to date with the mixed-income demonstration program. | Print copy not available. |
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| Effective Community-Based Strategies for Preventing Foreclosures [PDF, 271 KB] |
| NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership. This report, authored by Lindley Higgens, describes the foreclosure process, including mortgage default and the process for loan workouts; reviews of the research on the various factors that lead to default and foreclosure; examines the rise of the subprime market and its relation to foreclosures; describes community-based responses to foreclosures; and presents case studies of foreclosures and foreclosure-prevention programs in Chicago and New York City. (September 2005, 41 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Employer-Assisted Housing: Competitiveness
Through Partnership [MS Word, 443 KB] |
| With a long history in the United States and elsewhere, employer-assisted housing can be a cost-effective, corporate business strategy. This heavily researched paper examines how partnerships between employers and community-based development organizations can implement such a strategy effectively. The paper was written as part of Neighborhood Reinvestment's Fellowship Program for Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development. (2000, 75 pages) | Print copy available, Item 42053 | view summary |
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| Entrepreneurial Community Development—Exploring
Earned Income Activities and Strategic Alliances for Community
Development Nonprofits [PDF, 728 KB] |
By Ellen Stiefvater. This paper examines social entrepreneurship from a community-development perspective. Key findings are presented regarding both earned-income activities and strategic alliances as options for these organizations, as well as 10 key issues that arose as factors that impact their successful implementation. (2001,
56 pages) | Print copy available, Item 42076 |view summary |
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| Expiring Affordability of Low-Income Housing
Tax Credit Properties: The Next Era in Preservation [PDF, 154 KB] |
| Extensive research published by Neighborhood Reinvestment and the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University (1999, 44 pages). Print copy available, Item 42046 | view summary |
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Exposing Predatory Lending – Special
Issue of NeighborWorks Journal
[PDF, 163 KB] |
| This is a reprint of this article as it appeared in the NeighborWorks Journal, Volume 17, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 1999) | Print copy not available. |
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| Financial Fitness Education for Potential
Homebuyers: A Start-Up Guide for NeighborWorks Organizations [PDF, 690 KB] |
| A guide to training homebuyers in basic money management, budgeting and financial literacy. Covers program planning, development, implementation and evaluation; cites selected best practices; and provides a series of sample aids and resources. (1999,
27 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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Freddie Mac, Roper Survey Asks Why More Delinquent Borrowers Don't Call Lenders
for Help [PDF, 21 KB] | Print copy not available. |
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| Funding Strategies for Sustainable Resident Services [PDF, 227 KB] |
| A summary of NeighborWorks Learning Center Consortium member approaches to structuring costs and revenues.
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| Homebuyer Education and Counseling: A
Start-Up Guide [PDF, 548 KB] |
| This guide combines material from various sources in order to provide the best summary of homebuyer education programs. The enclosed samples range from job descriptions for home ownership counselors to Homebuyers Club schedules. (1999, 29 pages) | Print copy not available |
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| Home Value Protection: Final Report [PDF, 183 KB] |
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| How Insurers Benefit from the Housing Rehabilitation Efforts of NeighborWorks Organizations [PDF, 2.39 MB] |
Insurance companies have a vested interest in communities and homes that are safe and secure. Through their successful but underutilized housing rehabilitation expertise,
NeighborWorks organizations seek to improve the quality of older, unsafe and/or vacant and abandoned properties in the communities they serve. (2005, 25 pages). Print copy not available. |
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| Individual and Neighborhood Impacts of
Neighborhood Reinvestment's Homeownership Pilot Program [PDF, 392 KB] |
| William M. Rohe, Roberto G. Quercia, Shannon Van Zandt, Gretchen Kosarko. This report, by the University of North Carolina's Center for Urban and Regional Studies, examines the financial and personal impact of homeownership on a sample of graduates of home-ownership classes taught by eight NeighborWorks organizations. (2003, 60 pages). Print copy not available. |
| Innovations in Manufactured Housing Six Case Studies in Affordable Manufactured Housing Development [PDF, 775 KB] by Allegra Calder, February 2006. |
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| Keeping the American Dream Alive—Homeownership
Summit 2001 |
| Proceedings of the Homeownership Summit 2001, (held in Washington, D.C., November 8-9, 2001), hosted by Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and the NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership 2002, LISC Center for Home Ownership, National Cooperative Bank, and NCB Development Corp. Print copy available, Item 42063 | view summary |
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| Lift Up Your Voice: Community-Based Organizations
Shaping the Future of American Rural Policy [PDF, 2.28 MB] |
| The report explores the challenges of rural development and the ways in which practitioners, in particular, might address these challenges through strategic policy development and implementation. (2003, 15 pages) | Print copy not available.
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| Learning Center Consortium 2003 Report [PDF, 638 KB] |
| The NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative is hosting a Learning Centers Outcomes project in collaboration with some of HUD's Neighborhood Networks programs. One objective is to build the personal assets of families served by learning centers (such as youth academic success, employment, savings, home preparation and purchase). | Print copy not available. |
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| Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategies in Hot Housing Markets [PDF, 403 KB] |
| By Jesse Mintz-Roth. This paper inventories strategies for maintaining affordable housing toward perpetuity in hot markets in an increasing number of locales. (May 2008, 44 pages). | Print copy not available.
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| Managing Executive Transitions [PDF, 287 KB] |
| A handbook for nonprofits going through or anticipating executive transitions. (1998)Print copy available, Item 42047 | view summary |
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| Managing Neighborhood Change: Best Practices for Communities Undergoing Gentrification [PDF, 792 KB] |
This report, commissioned by NeighborWorks America, in partnership with the Atlanta Alliance for Community Development Investment, explores the impact of gentrification on the residents, CBOs and CDCs of three Atlanta neighborhoods in varying stages of gentrification, and their capacity to manage this change. Additionally, in order to understand factors at play in gentrified communities that have experienced a high level of success in managing change, the research was supplemented with information from two neighborhoods outside Atlanta, the Shaw community in Washington, D.C., and Jamaica Plain in Boston. | Print copy not available. |
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Measuring the Delivery Costs of Prepurchase Homeownership Education and
Counseling [PDF, 208 KB] |
NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership. Using information from NeighborWorks organizations that offer homeownership education and counseling programs, this paper estimates the total costs of delivering homeownership education and counseling and discusses proven and implied benefits to stakeholders. (May 2005, 32 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| MFI at Work: The NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative at Five Years [PDF, 2.44 MB] Feedback from eight member organizations interviewed for this five-year report confirms the Multifamily Initiative is helping its members meet their missions, improve the lives of their residents, and grow as viable long-term owners of affordable housing. The overview of the initiative and the stories that follow demonstrate the accomplishments of the Initiative’s member organizations over the last five years. | Print copy not available. |
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| Mid-Term Report for the Chicago Homeownership Preservation Initiative [PDF, 671 KB] |
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| Mind the Gap – Issues in Overcoming
the Information, Income, Wealth, and Supply Gaps Facing Potential
Buyers of Affordable Homes [PDF, 324 KB] |
| J. Michael Collins and Doug Dylla (2001, 23 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Mixed-Income Housing Developments: Promise
and Reality [PDF, 473 KB] NeighborWorks Training Institute April 4, 2002, Chicago. Hosted by the NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative. Print copy not available. | view summary |
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| Mixed-Income Housing's Greatest Challenge:
Strengthening America's Neighborhoods While Reaching Our
Lowest Income Families [PDF, 473 KB] NeighborWorks Training Institute April 4, 2002, Chicago. Hosted by the NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative. | Print copy not available. |
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| Mortgage Foreclosures in Atlanta: Patterns and Policy Issues [PDF, 1.7 MB] Authors Mark Duda and William Apgar examine mortgage failures in metropolitan Atlanta, expanding on their previous research on foreclosure avoidance in Chicago and Los Angeles. | Print copy not available. |
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| The Municipal Cost of Foreclosures: A Chicago Case Study [PDF, 590 KB] This report was published by the Homeownership Preservation Foundation and authored by William C. Apgar, Harvard University, Joint Center for Housing Studies; with consultants Mark Duda and Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey. (February 2005) | Print copy not available. |
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| Neighborhood Tours : A Passport to Partnership |
| Is it worth the effort to put on a neighborhood tour? This specific, hands-on guide says yes. It assists you with planning the entire event, from making strategic decisions about your tour's goals to evaluating it afterward. Case studies of several NeighborWorks organizations add to the value of this guide. Print copy available, Item 42041 | view summary |
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| NeighborWorks Organizations in Rural America
(Second Edition) |
| This booklet documents the growing impact of rural NeighborWorks organizations nationwide. (2002) | Print copy not available | view
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| NIA Loss Prevention Demonstration Project
Mid-Program Report |
| Prepared by the NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance, this publication provides a detailed summary of the challenges, successes, and best practices of implementing an insurance loss prevention program. Each chapter depicts the experiences from one of the six loss prevention pilot programs and under what circumstances these community-based organizations have been able to sustain, and in some cases disband their loss prevention efforts. (2002, 52 pages) | Print copy available , Item 53428 | view summary |
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NITF (NIA) National Report, 2000
This annual report captures the meetings and workshops and the 2001 agenda as convened by the National Insurance Task Force (now NIA) in Tampa, Florida.The meetings were held October 16-20, 2000. Print copy available, Item 42075 | view summary |
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NITF (NIA) National Report, 2001
This annual report outlines the activities and accomplishments of the National Insurance Task Force (now NIA). Print copy available, Item 42000 | view summary |
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Part of the Solution: Leveraging Business and Markets for Low-Income People
[PDF, 2 MB] This Ford Foundation report presents lessons learned from its Corporate Involvement (CI) Initiative, an effort that sought to demonstrate that businesses could use core operating resources and competencies in ways that contribute to large-scale improvement in income and assets for low-income people, while benefiting business. The report includes outcomes of the NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance’s Loss Prevention Partnership program to develop the National Home Safety Partnership to increase home safety and reduce insurance losses. | Print copy not available. |
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Partnerships with Realtors
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| Pathways to Partnership II, Loss Prevention
Partnerships - Improving Home Safety Across America Prepared by the NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance (NIA), this is the first of a three-part guide that will provide an overview of the various stages of the Loss Prevention Partnerships program. The guide introduces the first stages of the NIA's Loss Prevention Partnerships (LPP) program. The LPP program is based on research conducted in 1997 by the Insurance Research Council that identified the major causes of homeowners' insurance losses in eight American cities. (2000, 58 pages) | Print copy available, item 42079 | view summary |
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| Pathways to Partnership, Sharing the Journey
to Neighborhood Change Prepared by the NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance, this is a comprehensive how-to guide for community-based organizations and insurance companies to use in forming partnerships. The guide contains collective wisdom of 20 years of experience in how to initiate and grow insurance company partnerships in neighborhoods. (1995, 70 pages) Print copy available, Item 42078 | view summary |
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| Practitioners Guide to Predatory Lending This publication by NeighborWorks America and LISC provides an overview of predatory lending and examples of prevention and intervention tools organizations are using against predatory lending practices. It also provides lessons learned and a series of case studies. Print copy available, Item 52250 | view summary |
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| Preserving Homeownership: Community-Development
Implications of the New Mortgage Market [PDF, 477 KB] Print copy not available. |
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| Providing Alternatives to Mortgage Foreclosure: A HUD Report to Congress |
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| Pursuing the American Dream: Homeownership
and the Role of Federal Housing Polic [PDF, 485 KB] By Michael Collins. An overview of U.S. housing policies related to homeownership, an analysis of the barriers to homeownership, and background on federal policies, programs, and regulations that could be refined to better support homeownership. (2002, 61 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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| Real Investments Real Results Published in conjunction with the symposium “Resident Services: Linking Affordable Housing and Opportunities for Families” Washington, D.C., (March 2005) | Print copy available, Item 58289. |
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| Reframing the Work of Rural Community Development: Case Studies in Innovative Rural Business Strategies [PDF, 860 KB] Principles and Best Practices from Practitioners within the NeighborWorks Rural Initiative |
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Report from The Mixed-Income Demonstration Program: Reaching extremely low-income families in mixed-income settings [PDF, 472 KB] (February 2004) | Print copy not available.
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Resident Participation: A Community-Building Strategy in Low-Income Neighborhoods [PDF, 306 KB] Carolyn C. Leung, Fellowship Program for Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development. The paper explores the role of resident participation and its interaction with other factors community reviatlization and building, and how public policy can help low-income populations to make a difference in their communities. The paper details conditions necessary for success and assesses their effectiveness. (October 2005) |
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| Resident Success in Economically Integrated, Socially Diverse Housing Community Builders, Inc, January 2006. With support from the Ford Foundation’s Mixed-Income/ Mixed-Race (MI/MR) Housing Initiative, The Community Builders, Inc. has prepared a practitioner’s guide to describe effective practices in developing mixed-income, mixed-race housing, shares program tools and guidance, and highlights efforts under way to advance the field. View guide [PDF, 2.73 MB]. |
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| Review of Neighborhood Revitalization Initiatives [PDF, 210 KB] |
| A report by ABT Associates for Neighborhood Reinvestment. | Print copy not available. |
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| Seven Strategies for Successfully Marketing and Stabilizing the Occupancy of Mixed-Income/Mixed-Race Properties — Summary Report [PDF, 1 MB] |
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| Strengthening Bonds: Partnerships Between
NeighborWorks Organizations and State Housing Finance
Agencies [PDF, 325 KB] This paper highlights a variety of ways that NeighborWorks organizations and state housing finance agencies (HFAs) are partnering to provide financial and technical assistance to affordable housing efforts. (2001, 35 pages) | Print copy available, Item 42111 | view summary |
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Strengthening Neighborhoods by Creating
Long-Term Multifamily Assets
[PDF, 1.86 KB]
Edited proceedings of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Symposium, NeighborWorks Training Institute, April 18, 2001, Chicago. Hosted by the NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative. | Print copy not available. |
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| Supporting the American Dream of Homeownership:
An Assessment of Neighborhood Reinvestment's Home Ownership
Pilot Program [MS Word, 293 KB] William M. Rohe, Roberto G. Quercia and Shannon Van Zandt (2002, 56 pages) Print copy available, Item 42109 | view summary |
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Sustaining Homeownership Through Education and Counseling [PDF, 465 KB]
Mark Wiranowski, Fellowship Program for Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development, Harvard University. The paper presents a conceptual framework for the effect of postpurchase education and counseling in assisting homeowners, as well as analyzing the effectiveness of postpurchase education and counseling and information needs and strategies that can drive the provision of postpurchase counseling. It recommends postpurchase information and counseling that is integrated into the lending models of the financial services industry. (October 2003) |
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The Many Benefits of Homeownership
This popular article from the NeighborWorks Campaign for HomeOwnership reports on research confirming that homeownership is good for families, neighborhoods and the economy. Print copy available. | view summary. | |
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| The New Rural America : Local Opportunities,
Regional Strategies, National Impact [PDF, 1.89 MB] A series of articles from Fall 2003 NeighborWorks Bright Ideas including articles from Comptroller of the Currency, John D. Hawke, Jr. and Kendall McDaniel, an economist with the Center for the Study of Rural America, a unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. view summary. |
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| The New Rural America : Old Myths, New
Realities [PDF, 1.89 MB] |
A series of articles from Fall 2003 NeighborWorks Bright Ideas including articles from Comptroller of the Currency, John D. Hawke, Jr. and Kendall McDaniel, an economist
with the Center for the Study of Rural America, a unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. | view
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| The Syracuse Neighborhood Initiative Housing
Market Study [PDF, 3.74 MB] A market study to help identify the challenges and opportunities that distressed neighborhoods face in today's housing market. By Eileen Flanagan and Eric Hangen (2000, 85 pages) | Print copy not available. |
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The Use of Social Capital in Borrower Decision-Making [PDF]
By looking beyond the financial characteristics of borrowers, this research brings to light the social factors that influence a borrower’s choice of a lender and mortgage product. By Cassi Pittman,
Candidate for Ph.D. in Social Policy, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (February 2008) |
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| The Vitality of America's
Working Neighborhoods: Meeting the Local Challenges to Multifamily
Housing [PDF, 240 KB] NeighborWorks Training Institute, April 24, 2003, Chicago. | Print copy not available. |
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| There Goes the Neighborhood: The Effect of Single-Family Mortgage Foreclosures on Property Values Print copy not available. |
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| Understanding Predatory Lending: Moving
Toward a Common Definition and Workable Solutions [PDf, 163 KB] A research paper from Neighborhood Reinvestment and the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, that examines a range of abuses that are considered predatory lending. Author Deborah Goldstein proposes three potential regulatory and legislative solutions that may address the issue. (1999, 41 pages). Print copy available, Item 42045 | view summary |
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| Using HUD's MTCS Data to Assess the Depth
of Market for the Section 8 Homeownership Program (2002) Since 1999, Neighborhood Reinvestment has been working with NeighborWorks organizations to develop and implement models for using HUD's Section 8 voucher program to assist low-income families into home ownership. In this report, Abt Associates provides an analysis of the potential depth of market for the Section 8 Home Ownership Program based on HUD's Multi-family Tenant Characteristics System (MTCS) data. Print copy available, Item 42018 | view summary |
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| Using Public Schools as Community-Development
Tools: Strategies for Community-Based Developers [PDF, 999 KB] The paper examines ways in which community-based developers can learn from and contribute to current community-based efforts, particularly in disinvested urban areas, to reinforce the link between public schools and neighborhoods. The paper also considers the policy implications of including public schools in comprehensive development strategies. By Connie Chung. (2002, 55 pages) | Print copy available, Item 42118 | view summary |
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| Winning Strategies: Best Practices in
Home-Ownership Promotion [PDF, 359 KB] These 148 short case studies document best practices of the member organizations of the NeighborWorks Campaign for Home Ownership 2002, a national initiative of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. (2001, 362 pages) |
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