Student loan debt is a growing burden for many residents of the District of Columbia, especially for lower-income borrowers.

The path to home ownership has been especially difficult for Black Americans. This issue of 5th District Footprint explores these gaps as of 2016.

This issue of Community Practice Papers focuses on partner organizations in East Baltimore and community development tools to address a neighborhood challenged by disinvestment.

This report explores differences in community growth and income by analyzing indicators of access and health in the credit economy from 2007-2017.

This issue of Community Scope examines strategies to address the loss of subsidized, rent stabilized and market-affordable housing in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Community colleges serve a larger share of minority students than public or private four-year schools.

Why do kids drop out of high school, and what can be done to help them finish?

Minorities are less likely to climb the economic ladder than whites. Access to high-quality early childhood education plays an important role.

This publication contains summaries of the research presented at a virtual seminar in June 2020. The papers highlighted insights from search and matching, networks, and employer learning.

Although the Fifth District’s black population tends to have higher employment and educational attainment compared to the nation’s, there are still significant disparities relative to whites.

This issue of 5th District Footprint observes how racial segregation has changed in District countries from 1980 to 2016. 

This issue of Community Scope focuses on the history of housing policy in Baltimore, including practices that separated residents by race, ethnicity and religion.

A new financing model for distressed communities offers both promise and pitfalls.

Soul City, N.C., was a bold experiment in rural economic development and "Black capitalism" launched by McKissick Enterprises in 1969.

This initiative invested federal grant funding in target neighborhoods from 1999-2004. It offers lessons on the impact of community development efforts in disinvested neighborhoods.

Life is hard in one of Baltimore's toughest neighborhoods. But for Janice Walker and her family, it's home.

The origins of black business districts in Durham, Richmond, and Washington, D.C.

Life expectancy varies considerably across demographic groups.

Poor and minority children disproportionately suffered the ravages of lead paint poisoning.

One North Carolina city sought a different way of breaking up drug markets without contributing to the higher incarceration rate of black men