Poverty

CRDC Addressing Homelessness in South LA

Coalition for Responsible Community Development, a Community Development Corporation and member, is partnering with LA Family Housing on the Residences on Main, bringing 50 new units of affordable, supportive housing to individuals experiencing chronic homelessness in South Los Angeles. Once, completed, the Residences on main will provide permanent homes for 25 chronically homeless Transition Age …

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Data Highlights CED Program’s Ability to Provide Jobs to Low-Income Individuals and Revitalize Distressed Communities

In December 2016, a report prepared by Rapoza Associates, a Washington DC based government relations firm, took a look at federal Community Economic Development (CED) grants. An analysis of both survey data and federal government reporting points to the success of federal CED grants, which are administered by the Department of Health and Human Services …

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Emerging Green Industry Company Expands Facility

The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (NWSCDC) will use CED funding to expand a new, emerging green industry company known as Helios Solar Works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. NWSCDC will assist Helios Solar works with capital equipment purchases and working capital to facilitate its rapid growth as the company expands its production line and establishes additional shifts to meet new orders from solar panel installations in the United States and Europe.