CR Report
Provides information about community reinvestment issues and practices.
2011
- 06.17.2011
- Neighborhood Recovery and NSP1: Implementation in Select Fourth District Communities
- The housing crisis in the United States has wrought changes to communities in every corner of the nation. Back in 2008, Congress’s response was to create the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, or NSP, as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA), authorizing $3.92 billion for the program now known as NSP1 for local governments to mitigate negative impacts of foreclosures and vacancies through acquiring, rehabilitating, demolishing or redeveloping vacant and foreclosed homes. In this report we examine how NSP1 was implemented by some communities to understand in what ways this policy intervention and the communities’ response contributed to recovery, and how the NSP experience may shape future policy programs for community development at the state and federal level. Read more
- 01.05.2011
- Group Effects and Economic Outcomes
- Motivated by the belief that groups have both positive and negative effects on behaviors and outcomes, policymakers have long sought to manipulate the groups to which people are exposed through policies such as schools integration and the shift from high-rise public housing to scattered-site public housing. This report discusses the state of research on the effects of groups with an eye to drawing out policy implications. Read more
- 01.05.2011
- Group Effects and Economic Outcomes
- Motivated by the belief that groups have both positive and negative effects on behaviors and outcomes, policymakers have long sought to manipulate the groups to which people are exposed through policies such as schools integration and the shift from high-rise public housing to scattered-site public housing. This report discusses the state of research on the effects of groups with an eye to drawing out policy implications. Read more