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Announcing the New Creative Placemaking Technical Assistance Website! creativeplacemaking.us The website celebrates the power of arts and culture in strengthening communities, and offers an abundance of resources for anyone working in creative placemaking or curious about it!

Our latest @LISCResearch brief finds that #TOPA & #COPA policies paired with preservation investments can be powerful tools for racial equity. lisc.org/our-resources/…

“If you don't look like the community and you're not from the community, you can't understand where the hurts are.” A new @LISCInstitute Spotlight highlights the importance of community ownership, voice + leadership: lisc.org/our-resources/… @LISC_Philly @LISC_Newark @LISC_Houston

An important piece from @oscarthinks @NextCityOrg on the growing movement of community-owned commercial real estate, featuring @LISCResearch's new report, "Commercial Community Ownership as a Strategy for Just Development."

“I wanted to stay in the area because I grew up here,” says Crystal Ortiz of her business Waxery in @oscarthinks @NextCityOrg on community-owned commercial real estate. nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…

Don't miss this upcoming @LISC_HQ webinar with @LISCDeniseScott @IX_Unidxs @EloraRaymond & @hvogell on how tenants are organizing for solutions to rising rents & evictions, and to address private equity's role in driving the housing crisis. Register here! lisc.org/our-events/eve…

"Community ownership models...reshape relationships between people, place, power, and property" writes Julia Duranti-Martínez in LISC's new report on commercial community ownership. #entrepreneursofcolor #antidisplacement lisc.org/our-resources/…

New Yorkers urgently need a system that cares more about housing’s value as a home and less about its value as real estate. We’ve identified 20 social housing policies that can get us there. Learn more in our latest report @ cssny.org/PathwaysToSoci…

In a new LISC x @npquarterly series, @BrookingsMetro's @andreperryedu shares insight on how anti-racist community action can break down systemic barriers - reminding us that "lasting ideas go to Washington, not from it." lisc.org/our-stories/st…

As Hurricane Ian makes landfall, timely reflections on environmental justice, climate resilience and the Inflation Reduction Act from Mark Kudlowitz on LISC's Policy team.

The number homes purchased by investors continues to climb. #harvardhousingreport

Important long-form piece from @oscarthinks @NextCityOrg on the work of Black entrepreneurs to collectively acquire and transform commercial property. Also highlights tie-ins to public policy and financing, including from @LISCChicago nextcity.org/features/the-s…

Local governments need to address the growing predatory phenomenon of corporations buying up single family homes & turning them into high-cost rentals. This is likely to destroy the single family housing market in many neighborhoods, esp in markets that are predominately BIPOC.

“I think everyone knows that it’s past the moment to be taking land and housing off of the speculative market.” - Elise Goldin @NewEconomyNYC in cityandstateny.com/policy/2022/08…

The #COVID19 pandemic exacerbated health inequities. A new @LISCResearch report shows how CBOs can work with hospitals and insurers to promote equity –while saving on healthcare costs. #Medicaid #Healthcare lisc.org/our-resources/…

By one estimate, the values of multifamily properties increased between 400% and 600% in 2000-2018 & fed a boom of real estate speculation, driving up rents, pushing out longtime residents, and creating “super-gentrified” islands of wealth. planetizen.com/news/2022/08/1…

According to Julia Duranti-Martínez… the report “reinforces what tenant leaders have been saying…which is that [taking out ever-increasing debt] is a strategy for extracting profits from buildings, not for investing in their upkeep.” shelterforce.org/2022/08/16/bre… via @shelterforce

Edward Garcia @northwestbronx on sources of investment for #socialhousing “hospitals need to invest in the things that keep people healthy.”

Niani Taylor @EastNewYorkCLT on scaling CLTs: “people said the airplane couldn’t exist before it happened.” @PeoplesForumNYC #socialhousing event.