BNC offers links to a broad range of articles, reports, and books on important trends and issues that affect communities in Baltimore and beyond. Read the featured reports below, or access reports and links for Baltimore, Maryland, and more in the sidebar on the right.

Expanding Baltimore's Black Middle Class: Workforce Strategies for Advancing Prosperity
By Job Opportunities Task Force and Associated Black Charities (June 2010)

Community Investments: Special Focus on Place-Based Initiatives
From the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Spring 2010)

Community: The Structure of Belonging
By Peter Block (2010), BOOK

Facing the Urban Challenge: The Federal Government and America's Older Distressed Cities
By Alan Mallach (May 2010)

Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty
By Xavier de Souza Briggs, Susan J. Popking and John Goering (2010), BOOK

Prescription for Healthy Communities: Community Development Finance
By Lisa Richter (2010)

State of the Dream 2010: DRAINED Jobless and Foreclosed in Communities of Color
By United for a Fair Economy

Making Affordable Housing At Transit a Reality: Best Practices in Transit Agency Joint Development
By Robin Kniech and Melinda Pollack

The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why it Matters
By Sarah Treuhaft and Allison Karpyn (2010)

Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times: Leadership Strategies When Economies Falter
By susan U. Raymond (2010), BOOK

Foreclosing the Dream: How America's Housing Crisis is Reshaping Our Cities and Suburbs
By William H. Lucy and David A. Peterson (2010), BOOK

Responsible Approaches to Neighborhood Stabilization: Case Studies in Action
By NeighborWorks America (2009)

Loan Modifications as a Response to the Foreclosure Crisis: An Examination of Subprime Loan Outcomes in Maryland and Surrounding States
By Michael Collins and Chris Herbert for Baltimore Homeownership Preservation Coalition (December 2009)

This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Reshaping Metropolitan America
By Manuel Pastor, Chris Benner and Martha Matsuoka (2009), BOOK

Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies
By John Kromer (2009), BOOK

Family Mobility and Neighborhood Change: New Evidence and Implications for Community Initiatives
By Claudia Coulton, Brett Theodos and Margery A. Turner for the Urban Institute (November 2009)

Stabilizing Neighborhoods Impacted by Concentrated Foreclosures: Scattered-Site Rental Housing Challenges and Opportunities
By Ivan Levi for NeighborWorks America (October 2009)

New Homes, New Neighborhoods, New Schools: A Progress Report on the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program
By Lora Engdahl for Baltimore Regional Housing Campaign (October 2009)

Grid/Street/Place: Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts
By Nathan Cherry and Kurt Nagle, BOOK

The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods
By David J. Erickson (2009), BOOK

Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis
Edited by M. Paloma Pavel (2009), BOOK

What's in a Name? Clarifying the Different Forms and Policy Objectives of "Shared Equity" and "Shared Appreciation" Homeownership Programs
By Ryan Sherriff and Jeffrey Lubell for Center for Housing Policy (August 2009)

Foreclosure: How Can Philanthropy Help?
By The Annie E. Casey Foundation (May 2009)

Collateral Damage: Renters in the Foreclosure Crisis
By David Rothstein for Policy Matters Ohio (June 2008)

Green-Collar Jobs in America's Cities and Greener Pathways
By the Apollo Alliance (2008)

Mortgage Foreclosure Filings in Maryland
By The Reinvestment Fund for the Baltimore Homeownership Preservation Coalition (January 2008)

Why Place Matters: Building a Movement for Healthy Communities
By PolicyLink and the California Endowment (2007)

Transit-Oriented Development in Philadelphia: Using a Proven Strategy to Create More Vibrant, Livable Neighborhoods
By Econsult Corporation for NeighborhoodsNow (October 2007)

Investing Together: A Decade of Community Progress
By the Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative (2006)

Losing Ground: Foreclosures in the Subprime Market and Their Cost to Homeowners
By Ellen Schloemer, Wei Li, Keith Ernst, and Kathleen Keest for the Center for Responsible Lending (December 2006)

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