Supporting and Strengthening Community-Based Development

ANHD works to improve city housing development policy by educating policy makers, elected officials and funders about the strengths of neighborhood-based nonprofit housing developers. We recently strengthened this focus by hosting a policy conference on The Future of the CDC Movement in New York City. The conference included high profile speakers who analyzed our sector’s unique value in building housing that is deeply affordable, permanently affordable, and developed through a process that strengthens the neighborhoods’ civic infrastructure. The conference also recognized our sector’s challenges in the current economic context, and concluded that we must demand as much of ourselves as we do of policy makers to insure that our movement has the skills and expertise to be as productive and competitive for the next 20 years, as we have been for the past two decades. Some of the themes of the conference were published in a short report titled CDCs and the Future of New York. Many of the themes of the conference are apparent throughout ANHD’s policy advocacy and capacity building work with our members.