This issue of Community Investments focuses on rural community and economic development issues, highlighting ways that practitioners and policymakers are shifting their efforts toward the development of local assets, such as building leadership and entrepreneurial capacity, and looking for innovative ways to leverage limited resources to build housing, improve infrastructure, and reduce poverty.
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Table of Contents
CI Notebook
Introduction by Joy Hoffmann
Addressing Community and Economic Development in Rural America: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
Naomi Cytron
Si Se Puede: Developing Farmworker Housing in the 12th District
Vivian Pacheco
Lending for Rural Development Projects: Infrastructure, Community Facilities, and Affordable Housing
Robert Longman
Morphing Rural Community Development Models: The Nexus between the Past and the Future
John C. Allen
Native Community Development Financial Institutions: Building a Foundation for Strong Native Economies
Carolina Reid
Big Lessons from Small Rural Communities: Working to Reduce Poverty Long Term
Karl Stauber