Spotlight
Guest Blog: Naming Neighborhoods for Community Engagement and Image-Building
Guest blogger David Boehlke gets specific about identifying and naming neighborhoods.
Blog: New Online Guide Offers Tools to Market and Sell Homes
Affordable housing developers and organizations who employ owner-occupied housing development as a tool for community stabilization have a new tool: the NeighborWorks Home Marketing and Sales Guide.
Beyond Stabilization
Content created to help you think about whether and how your organization could engage in broader revitalization planning work.
Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) Strategies
All about NSP, with case studies, custom resources for nonprofits, and links.
REO Strategies
Everything about Real Estate Owned (REO) and other vacant property: finding it, acquiring it, rehabbing it, moving it to positive use.
Designing a Place-Based Plan for Stabilization
This section of the website describes eight steps that will lead to a plan for stabilizing a targeted neighborhood impacted by foreclosure.
Stable Communities
Welcome to StableCommunities.org, where you will find information and strategies to stabilize and revitalize your community in the wake of the foreclosure crisis.
What's New
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Understanding the National Mortgage Settlement: A Webinar for Housing Counselors
This two-part webinar will teach counselors about the National ... -
The Importance of Connecting People to Place
Connecting people to place is one goal of CNU 21: Living ...
NEWS
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CNN reports: “Homebuyers Clueless about Mortgages”
The housing market is improving, but a recent survey done by real ... -
Research Shows Negative Impact of Segregation
Segregation is obviously damaging to those who are segregated, but ...
RESOURCES
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What's in a Name?
In What’s In A Name?, David Boehlke argues for a carefully devised ... -
Anchor Institutions and How They Help Build Community Wealth
Helping communities to build wealth is an important task for all ...
About This Site
Designing a Place-Based Plan for StabilizationLearn about a logical series of steps in designing a place-based plan for stabilization, including strategic partnerships, market analysis, eight categories of stabilization strategies, and more.
Beyond Stabilization: Strategies for Sustainable CommunitiesAll communities impacted by foreclosures also have a unique opportunity, in the midst of crisis, to rethink what they want to become over the long term and establish new directions. Learn about comprehensive planning here.
Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) StrategiesThe NSP program is the centerpiece of funding for many stabilization responses. Learn about NSP and how others are using it effectively here.
PolicyStabilization responses must include strategies to reshape policy at the local, state and national level to effect real change. Learn about these approaches here.
TrainingMany new and exciting training opportunities are available to help practitioners and policymakers craft and deliver effective stabilization strategies. Learn about classroom and online training here.
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