Links to other sites covering housing, neighborhood revitalization, and community organizing. (For broader sets of links, see "other links pages" and "miscellaneous")

• NHI Site of the Month
• Information Centers and Publications
• National Organizations
  • Membership Organizations
  • Other National Organizations
• Selected State and Regional Organizations
• Selected Local Organizations
• Government Resources
• Nonprofit Resources
• Directories and Links Pages
• Miscellaneous

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NHI Site of the Month: Louisiana Speaks. This site provides an overview of planning efforts at multiple levels throughout areas of Louisiana affected by Hurricane Katrina. These include individual building reconstruction as well as neighborhood, parish, and regional plans. Much of the planning and design work in the state since Katrina has been led by leading New Urbanists such as Andres Duany and Peter Calthorpe. The site provides access to data about each location, downloads of the results of planning studies and meetings, and media reports.

On-line Information Centers and Publications

• Affordable Housing Finance The magazine for developers using low-income housing tax credits
  
  
• Affordable Housing Whois A searchable directory of people and groups within the affordable housing industry
  
• Arcat.com Find building products, specs, and cad details easily and free.
  
  
• The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives
  
  
• The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
  
  
• CaRDI Community Development Toolbox from Cornell and Penn State Cooperative Extensions
  
  
• City Limits New York City's Urban Affairs News Magazine
  
  
• Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research (HUD)
  
  
• The Community Resource Guide Excellent guide to finding data about your neighborhood, including a step-by-step guide to Census data. New York City focused
  
  
• COMM-ORG "The on-line conference on community organizing and development - 'Linking Activist and Academic, Bridging Theory and Practice'"
  
  
• Enterprise Resource Database from the Enterprise Foundation
  
  
• HandsNet "The Human Services Community Online" Includes "Web Clipper," a subscription news clipping service
  
  
• Housing Information Gateway Searchable database of affordable housing organizations, and a list of housing listservs
  
  
• Housing Policy Debate
  
  
• Housing Research Foundation Case studies and best practices regarding HOPE VI and the elderly in public housing
  
  
• Inner City Press
  
  
• Knowledgeplex A comprehensive searchable library sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation
  
  
• The Laboratory for Community & Economic Development at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• Low-Income Networking and Communications Project Information "for and about groups of low income people organizing to confront the shredding of our social safety net"
  
  
• Moving Ideas Network "Dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience."
  
  
• National Association of Home Builders: Housing Issues The building industry's perspective on affordability, smart growth and more
  
  
• National Coalition for the Homeless Legislative Alerts
  
  
• National Fair Housing Advocate Timely news and information about housing discrimination
  
  
• National Low Income Housing Coalition Publications Memo to Members, Out of Reach, The NIMBY Report, and more
  
  
• National Low Income Housing Coalition Weekly Alerts
  
  
• Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles On-line access to a wide range of public data about LA, searchable, mappable
  
  
• Paydayloaninfo.org An information resource for consumers and advocates sponsored by the Consumer Federation of America.
  
  
• PolicyLink Includes the Equitable Development Toolkit
  
  
• Policy Pointers Links to research reports from organizations around the world
  
  
• Real Change: Puget Sound's Homeless Newspaper
  
  
• Recent Research Results (HUD)
  
  
• Shelterforce Magazine The only independent magazine for the community development world - covers policy and practice.
  
  
• Tenant Net Focused on New York State, but has links to information for many other states
  
  
• Urban Design and Affordable Housing from University of Virginia
  
  
• Urban Institute Nonpartisan economic and policy research
  
  
• Urban Research Monitor (HUD)
  
  
• U.S. Housing Market Conditions (HUD)
  
  
• Economic Success Clearinghouse
  
  
• W. K. Kellogg Collection of Rural Community Development Resources
  
  
• Woodstock Institute Research and technical assistance promoting community reinvestment and economic development in lower-income and minority communities
  

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National Organizations

Membership Organizations

• ACORN (Association of Communities Organized for Reform Now) Organizing network - "the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families."
  
  
• Christian Community Development Association
  
  
• Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions
  
  
• Community Action Partnership Formerly the National Association of Community Action Agencies
  
  
• Community Development Society International professional association for community development practitioners and citizen leaders in education, health care, social services, government, utilities, and economic development
  
  
• Council of State Community Development Agencies Advocates for states on community development issues
  
  
• The Enterprise Foundation National network and funding intermediary for community developement organizations
  
  
• International Economic Development Council Members are "economic development professionals"
  
  
• National Alliance to End Homelessness A nationwide federation of public, private, and nonprofit organizations
  
  
• National American Indian Housing Council
  
  
• National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders
  
  
• National Association of Development Organizations Members are egional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural America
  
  
• National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Members are public agencies that administer HUD programs
  
  
• National Association of Housing Cooperatives
  
  
• National Coalition for the Homeless Advocacy and resources. Organizational and individual members
  
  
• National Community Building Network Individuals committed to a community building approach to ending poverty and revitalization neighborhoods
  
  
• National Community Capital Association A national membership organization of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)
  
  
• National Community Reinvestment Coalition Working to "increase the flow of private capital into traditionally underserved communities"
  
  
• National Congress for Community Economic Development "The trade association and advocate for the community-based development industry"
  
  
• National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions
  
  
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council Members are health care providers who work with the homeless
  
  
• National Housing & Rehabilitation Association "Promoting partnerships among sophisticated professionals in the affordable multifamily housing field"
  
  
• National Housing Conference "Membership drawn from every [affordable housing] industry segment"
  
  
• National Low Income Housing Coalition Nonprofit advocates for affordable housing at the federal and state levels.
  
  
• National Neighborhood Coalition "The national voice for neighborhoods"
  
  
• National Organizers Alliance
  
  
• National People's Action National network of grassroots organizing groups
  
  
• NeighborWorks America
  
  
• Planners Network Members are "progressive" urban planners.
  
  

Other

• AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust
  
  
• American Bar Assocation Commission on Homelessness and Poverty "Devoted to the development of legal pro bono homeless programs and to educating the profession and public to the legal problems of the very poor"
  
  
• The Association for the Study and Development of Community
  
  
• Center for Community Change Technical assistance and research for low-income organizations
  
  
• Center for Law and Social Policy Research and advocacy on issues affecting the poor
  
  
• Center for Neighborhood Technology Focuses on "creating sustainable communities" and supporting healthy urban areas
  
  
• Center for Urban Policy Research Rutgers University
  
  
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Research on government policies affecting low- and moderate-income people
  
  
• Centre for Community Enterprise Canadian, publisher of Making Waves. "Keeping tabs on community economic development know-how."
  
  
• Community Economic Development Centre at Simon Frasier University, Canada.
  
  
• Community Problem Solving NetworkA learning space for people who work in and across the public, private and nonprofit sectors.
  
  
• Community Reinvestment Fund Nonprofit source of capital for nonprofit developers
  
  
• Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force Lobbies at the federal level for housing accessibility
  
  
• Co-op Housing Coalition A joint venture of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives (NAHC), the National Cooperative Bank (NCB) and the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) to "improve the environment for housing cooperatives"
  
  
• Corporation for Enterprise Development Promotes asset-building and economic opportunity strategies in low-income and distressed communities
  
  
• Development Training Institute Community development training and leadership development
  
  
• FannieMae and Freddie Mac Government-Sponsored Enterprises that work to increase homeownership. They create a secondary mortgage market
  
  
• Habitat for Humanity Building homes for low-income homeowners with volunteer and sweat-equity labor
  
  
• Housing America "Mobilizing to Ensure Housing for All"
  
  
• Housing Assistance Council "Helping local organizations in rural America build affordable homes"
  
  
• Housing Partnership Network A peer network and cooperative of the most accomplished U.S. affordable housing nonprofits
  
  
• Innovative Housing Institute All about inclusionary zoning
  
  
• Institute for Community Economics Home of the Community Land Trust Network
  
  
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) "Provides grants, loans and equity investments to CDCs for neighborhood redevelopment"
  
  
• Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation Social Policy Research
  
  
• National Affordable Housing Network Advocates for higher-quality, more energy-efficient affordable housing. Has "high performance houseplans"
  
  
• National Cooperative Bank Development Corporation
  
  
• National Council of La Raza: Community and Family Wealth-Building Programs
  
  
• National Economic Development and Law Center "Multi-disciplinary legal and planning resource center whose mission is to contribute to the abilities of low-income persons and communities to realize their full potential"
  
  
• National Housing Law Project
  
  
• National Housing Trust Formed to preserve multifamily properties at risk of conversion to market rate housing and resolve the problems of "troubled" properties
  
  
• National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty The "legal arm of the national movement to end homelessness"
  
  
• The New Rules Project from the Institute for Local Self Reliance. "Designing rules as if community mattered"
  
  
• Rural LISC Support for rural community development groups
  
  
• Youthbuild "A youth and community development program as well as an alternative school" (See Shelterforce article.)
  
  
• World Hunger Year "Innovative solutions to hunger and poverty"
  

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Selected Regional and State Organizations

(See also the State Coalition Directory from the National Low Income Housing Coalition)

• Alabama Arise A coalition of religious, community, and civic groups that work on poverty issues through state policy
  
  
• California Housing Law Project Lobbies for affordable housing and tenants rights
  
  
• Citizen's Housing and Planning Association Umbrella organization for affordable housing and community development activities in Massachusetts representing all interests in the housing field, including non-profit and for-profit developers, homeowners, tenants, bankers, government officials, etc.
  
  
• Center for Responsible Lending
  
  
• Coastal Enterprises, Inc. "Helping Maine people and communities reach an adequate and equitable standard of living, learning, and working in harmony with our natural environment"
  
  
• COHHIO (Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio)
  
  
• Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina One of the most active state-level community reinvestment organizations. Its site is full of action guides and useful research. See "When Your Bank Leaves Town," Shelterforce #126.
  
  
• Housing Minnesota
  
  
• MICAH - Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing (Minneapolis region)
  
  
• New Jersey Tenants Organization
  
  
• NonProfit Housing Association of Northern California
  
  
• Self-Help Credit Union A "community development lender" operating mostly in North Carolina but also in other parts of the Southeast and in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• The Reinvestment Fund "A development finance corporation with a wealth-building agenda for low-and moderate-income people and places." NJ-PA-DE and other parts of the mid-Atlantic region
  
  
• South Florida Community Development Coalition
  
  
• Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing
  
  
• Texas Low Income Housing Information Service "Supporting low-income Texans' efforts to have a decent home in a quality neighborhood"
  
  
• Vermont Tenants, Inc.
  
  
• Virginia Center for Housing Research at Virigina Polytechnic University
  
  
• Virginia Organizing Project " A state-wide grassroots organization challenging injustice"
  
  
• Washington (state) Low Income Housing Alliance
  
  
• Washington State Tenants Union
  
  
• West Virginia Community Action
  
  
• Wyoming Coalition for the Homeless

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Selected Local Organizations

• Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (Arlington County, Virginia)
  
  
• Blocks Together A dynamic community organizing group in the West Humbolt Park and North Garfield Park neighborhoods of Chicago. See "The Right to Know," Shelterforce #126.
  
  
• Center for Urban Community Services, Inc. Supportive housing (Manhattan)
  
  
• Community Action Program of Lancaster County (Pennsylvania)
  
  
• Community Development Support Collaborative Provides grants, training and techincal assistance to community development groups in Washington, DC
  
  
• Community Service Society of New York Social services, training, and organizing
  
  
• East St. Louis Action Research Project A community-university partnership for revitalization
  
  
• Ecumenical Community Development Organization (Harlem, New York City)
  
  
• Fifth Avenue Committee (Brooklyn, New York City.) Development and organizing
  
  
• Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Homeless (Cape Cod, Massachusetts)
  
  
• Hell's Kitchen Online (New York City)
  
  
• Homes for the Homeless Largest provider of transitional housing (with education and training components) in New York City
  
  
• Just Food Enhancing quality of life in New York City through food systems (urban farms, community supported agriculture)
  
  
• Low Income Housing Institute (Seattle) (See Shelterforce article.)
  
  
• Lyndale Neighborhood Association (Minneapolis)
  
  
• Madison Area Community Land Trust (Madison, WI)
  
  
• Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program City-government sponsored community planning
  
  
• Neighborhood Capital Budget Group (Chicago) "Ensure the quality of infrastructure to ensure the quality of life"
  
  
• Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization (NPCR) Community-University Partnerships and Neighborhood Planning in the Twin Cities, Minnesota
  
  
• Neighborhood Planning Office (Seattle) Includes text of plans and links to Seattle neighborhood activism
  
  
• NEWSED A comprehensive community initiative. (Denver, Colorado)
  
  
• People Escaping Poverty Project Membership organization of low-income individuals in the Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN area
  
  
• Project H.O.M.E. Continuum of care and organizing fighting homelessness (Philadelphia, PA)
  
  
• Project QUEST, Inc. Job training in San Antonio, TX
  
  
• Urban Homesteading Assistance Board Organizes, develops, and supports low-income limited-equity co-ops in New York City, usually from city-owned or tax deliquent property.
  
  
• Voices of Cabrini Information on public housing redevelopment in Chicago
  
  
• Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (Bronx, NY)

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Government Resources

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  
  
• Bureau of the Census
  
  
• Community Development Financial Institutions Fund U.S. Dept of the Treasury
  
  
• Congressional Record Filter Free service to help you search the Congressional Record more quickly
  
  
• Contacting The Congress Outstanding site with e-mail addresses for Senators and Reps
  
  
• Department of Labor
  
  
• Department of the Treasury
  
  
• Department of Transportation
  
  
• Federal Citizen Information Center
  
  
• The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
  
  
• Federal Home Loan Banks
  
  
• Federal Register 1995-present
  
  
• Federal Reserve Board: Community Reinvestment Act
  
  
• House of Representatives
  
  
• Housing Counseling (HUD)
  
  
• HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development)
  
  
• HUD Office of Community Planning and Development
  
  
• HUD Office of University Partnerships
  
  
• HUD User Information service of the office of policy development and research
  
  
• HUDCLIPS HUD's client and policy information system
  
  
• International City/County Management Association
  
  
• Library of Congress Home Page
  
  
• Mr. Smith E-Mails Washington
  
  
• National Association of Counties Home Page
  
  
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Good CRA Resource
  
  
• OMB Watch A watchdog for the Office of Management and Budget.
  
  
• Project Vote Smart Nonpartisan information on officials and candidates' issue positions, voting records, campaign finance, etc.
  
  
• Resources for State and Local Governments
  
  
• Rural Empowerment/Enterprise Zones
  
  
• Senate
  
  
• Thomas Legislative information from the Library of Congress
  
  
• US Conference of Mayors
  
  
• US Government Printing Office Access to printed government information
  
  
• USBUDGET.COM
  
  
• USDA Rural Housing Service
  

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General Nonprofit Resources

• Advocacy for Nonprofits from the Alliance for Justice
  
  
• Alliance for Nonprofit Management
  
  
• Boardsource "Building effective nonprofit boards"
  
  
• Chardon Press Publisher of Grassroots Fundraising Journal and other nonprofit books
  
  
• CharityVillage Home Page "Canada's supersite for the nonprofit sector"
  
  
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy
  
  
• Community Wealth Ventures
  
  
• Compasspoint Nonprofit Services
  
  
• Council on Foundations A membership group of foundations and corporate grantmakers
  
  
• Coyote Communications Technology tips
  
  
• Foundation Center Primary source of philanthropy research and training, and lists of funding sources
  
  
• Fund$Raiser Cyberzine
  
  
• Grants and Grant-Writing Manual from Saint Louis University
  
  
• Grantsmanship Center Grants information and grantsmanship training
  
  
• GuideStar Directory A national database of nonprofit organizations
  
  
• Independent Sector "Strengthening non-profit initiative, philanthropy, and citizen action"
  
  
• Internet Nonprofit Center Information For and About Nonprofit Organizations
  
  
• The Leader to Leader Institute
  
  
• Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits
  
  
• Michigan Comnet – Virtual Library: Funding
  
  
• The Community Leadership Association Members include local leadership training groups and their graduates
  
  
• National Center for Charitable Statistics at The Urban Institute
  
  
• National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
  
  
• National Council of Nonprofit Associations
  
  
• National Network for Collaboration
  
  
• National Network of Grantmakers "An organization of individuals involved in funding social and economic justice, not a funding group"
  
  
• Neighborhood Funders Group "A national network of grantmakers working to expand support for organizations that help low-income people improve their communities"
  
  
• Nonprofit Career Network
  
  
• Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee
  
  
• Nonprofit Charitable Organizations Links from About.com
  
  
• NonProfit Gateway Links to federal government nonprofit information
  
  
• Nonprofit Nuts and Bolts
  
  
• Nonprofit Online News: Current News
  
  
• Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
  
  
• The Praxis Project "A national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking"
  
  
• probono.net
  
  
• Program on Nonprofit Organizations Yale Divinity School
  
  
• TCC Group A consulting firm for organizations that "serve the public good"
  
  
• Techsoup - The Technology Place for Nonprofits
  
  
• VolunteerMatch Post and find volunteer opportunities of all kinds
  

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Other Links Pages

• Change Communications: Housing and Community Development Resources
  
  
• Community Economic Development Links
  
  
• HomeSight: The Comprehensive Guide to Housing Resources on the Web
  
  
• Internet Resources for City Planning Research from UC Berkeley
  

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• American Public Human Services Association Association of individuals and agencies concerned with social services
  
  
• Association for Community Networking (as in computer networking)
  
  
• Center for Policy Alternatives Works with state legislators, state policy organizations, and grassroots leaders to move a broad progressive agenda across the 50 states
  
  
• Citizens for Tax Justice
  
  
• Civic Practices Network "Schooling for Active Citizenship"
  
  
• Cleveland NeighborhoodLink "An information resource for the people of Cleveland"
  
  
• Common Dreams News Center On-line collection of daily news stories and op-eds with a decidedly "progressive" bent
  
  
• Community Associations Institute Support and information for condo, co-operative, and homeowner associations
  
  
• Community Policing Consortium
  
  
• The E. F. Schumacher Society Demonstrating that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved through human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment. Includes community land trust information
  
  
• Food Research and Action Center Working to end hunger and malnutrition
  
  
• Governing Magazine
  
  
• Guild Law Center for Economic and Social Justice
  
  
• Homeless People's Network An email discussion list for people who are or have been homeless
  
  
• If You Are or May Become Homeless (from the National Coalition for the Homeless)
  
  
• Insitutue for Global Communications
  
  
• Institute for Research on Poverty University of Wisconsin. Includes FAQs on poverty in the US
  
  
• The Institute on Race & Poverty University of Minnesota
  
  
• Institute for the Study of Civic Values
  
  
• International Union of Tenants
  
  
• Joint Center for Poverty Research Northwesten University/University of Chicago
  
  
• LaborNet Online communications for a Democratic Labor Movement
  
  
• LETSystems Local currencies info and how-to
  
  
• Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Clearinghouse
  
  
• National Center for Employee Ownership
  
  
• National Civic League
  
  
• National Resource and Training Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
  
  
• New Village Journal Community planning and revitalization
  
  
• Planning Commissioners Journal A national journal for citizen planners
  
  
• Rethinking Schools
  
  
• Rock The Vote Youth Voter Empowerment
  
  
• Time Dollar Institute

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