Regional Matters examines local, regional and national data that matter to the Fifth District economy and our communities.

Community Scope provides information and analysis on current and emerging issues in community development.

This publication contains a collection of prepared remarks, previously published work and papers presented at “The Modernity of Work and Place: Jane Jacobs and the Design of the 21st Century City."

The City of Richmond, Virginia’s Neighborhoods in Bloom initiative invested federal grant funding in seven target neighborhoods from 1999 to 2004. The lessons learned from this reinvestment strategy help explain the impact of targeted community development efforts in disinvested neighborhoods.

This report probes the factors driving differences in community growth and income in the District of Columbia by analyzing varied indicators of access and health in the credit economy from 2007 to 2017.

The small business credit environment has changed in recent years and Federal Reserve policymakers have an interest in understanding the impact of those changes on small businesses and their ability to obtain the credit they need to operate and grow. The Small Business Credit Survey helps to strengthen that understanding by asking the business owners themselves about their credit needs and experiences.

The “Investing in America’s Workforce” is a collaboration between the Federal Reserve System, the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, the Ray Marshall Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

These reports summarize research and outreach on community development topics co-published by multiple institutions within the Federal Reserve System.