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Volume 14; No. 3; October 2002

Community Investments, October 2002 (PDF - 384KB)
Complete Newsletter

  • Cover (PDF - 67KB)
  • Editor's Notebook (PDF - 51KB)
    Joy Hoffmann
  • The Community Land Trust and Special Needs Housing (PDF - 89KB)
    Land may be the most expensive element in the price of housing. What would happen if the land could be valued separately? Land trusts make this possible. Learn how land trusts are helping to maintain affordability and accessibility in communities for generations to come
    Lisa Engel, Manager, Nehemiah Urban Land Trust (NULT) of Nehemiah Corporation of California
  • Fannie Mae's Section 8 Program (PDF - 103KB)
    Section 8 is most often associated with rent payment assistance. But that is changing. Public housing agencies now have the opportunity to turn renters into homeowners using Section 8. Understand how it works and who needs to be involved
    Julie A. Gould, Vice President, Fannie Mae
  • The Maturing Secondary Market for Community Development Loans (PDF - 99KB)
    Most everyone knows about the secondary market for housing. But did you know that there is a mature secondary market option for community development and small business loans? A pioneer in the industry explains the ins and outs of this innovative mechanism that expands community development finance
    Michael Blumfield, Director of Marketing, Community Reinvestment Fund
  • District Bulletin (PDF - 80KB)

 

Editor-in-Chief
Joy Hoffmann
Managing Editor
Lena Robinson
Contributing Editor
Jack Richards
Design and Layout
Cynthia B. Blake

If you have an interesting community development program or idea, we would like to consider publishing an article by or about you. Please contact:

Managing Editor
Community Investments
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street, Mail Stop 620
San Francisco, CA 94105

Free subsciption and additional copies are available upon request to the Community Affairs Department, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 101 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105, or send an e-mail to Community Affairs.

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The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or the Federal Reserve System. Material herein may be reprinted or abstracted provided Community Investments is credited. Please provide our Community Affairs Department with a copy of any publication in which material is reprinted.