The Treasury Department has proposed new policies for community development financial institutions (CDFIs) that would ...

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Billions of public and philanthropic dollars are invested in communities every year, yet many rural and small cities continue ...

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For a nation in the grip of a housing affordability crisis, the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act — the first major ...

After a dozen moves and two decades of lost federal grants, America's longest-running urban Indigenous organization has found a new home — and a rejuvenated focus on culture.

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The binding ballot initiative would bar the city from investing in countries or companies tied to genocide, apartheid, or ...

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