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Community Scope provides information and analysis on current and emerging issues in community development.
Broadband access in rural areas is linked to increased job and population growth, higher rates of new business formation and home values, and lower unemployment rates.
This issue of Community Scope seeks to better understand the economic impact of regional food systems through the food hub model, and offers examples from the Fifth District.
This issue of Community Scope focuses on the history of housing policy in Baltimore, including practices that separated residents by race, ethnicity and religion.
This issue of Community Scope explores research on community development financial institution (CDFI) partnership formation, development and sustainability.
This issue of Community Scope details steps to produce GEOLOOM co>map, an online mapping tool for arts and culture in Baltimore's communities.
This issue of Community Scope presents key findings from the 2017 Richmond Fed’s Survey of CDFIs in the Southeast.
This issue of Community Scope examines strategies to address the loss of subsidized, rent stabilized and market-affordable housing in gentrifying neighborhoods.
This issue of Community Scope will offer a broad overview of the challenges faced by today’s watermen that may be precipitating their declining numbers and will discuss alternative and supplemental employment options that may be available to them.
This issue of Community Scope examines the patterns in geographic service provision by respondent CDFIs in urban, rural, low- and moderate-income (LMI), underserved and distressed markets and areas.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Community Development department conducts a biennial survey of community development financial institutions (CDFIs) in the Southeast region of the United States. This issue of Community Scope uses the results of the 2015 survey to present timely key findings on CDFI activity in the Southeast, including capitalization, demand, capacity, non-lending programs and services, and impact investing. We find growing demand for the products and services offered by CDFIs, including small business loans, financial education and technical assistance. CDFIs, however, continue to face financial constraints in responding to this demand.