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Articles by Noah McDaniel
Helping Small Businesses Harness Investments in Clean Energy and Climate Resilience
As communities invest in clean energy and climate resilience, small businesses can help drive the transition while harnessing new business opportunities and more efficient and climate-resilient technology to expand their businesses, improve profitability, and generate local wealth. This brief uses Tucson, Arizona, as a case study to explore the role small businesses play in economic activities and sectors central to the clean energy transition and climate resilience efforts.
Private Investment Impacts of Economic Development Administration Construction Grants
The US Economic Development Administration (EDA) invests in economic development projects throughout the country to promote innovation, competitiveness, and economic growth. This brief summarizes the local impacts of EDA’s construction projects on private investment at both the census tract and county levels.
How Does Entrepreneurship in Shelby County, Tennessee, Measure Against Comparable Counties?
When assessing a regional economy, it is important to consider the role played by entrepreneurs and small businesses, particularly with respect to innovation. Shelby County, Tennessee, home to Memphis, is an important case study for the forces that shape small business development, entrepreneurship, innovation, and regional economic growth. Shelby County hosts nationally recognized firms yet faces a trend of economic stagnation.
The Credit Trajectories of Microbusiness Loan Borrowers
Many microbusinesses take on debt to accelerate growth or to meet payroll, stock inventory, and fulfill other day-to-day requirements. How an entrepreneur manages that debt as part of their overall financial management can lead to significant differences in the financial trajectory of the business and the owner.
Unlocking Black Prosperity: Advancing Wealth through Small Businesses, Asset Development, and Community Investment
Across the country, local leaders are driving bold, data-driven strategies to build inclusive economies and advance Black prosperity. A key pillar of this work is supporting Black-owned small businesses through expanded access to capital, increased capacity, and targeted policy changes.
Examining Multifamily Housing Developers
This brief examines the landscape of multifamily housing development across 10 US cities from 2019 to 2023, focusing on who is building or rehabilitating large multifamily projects. It addresses the critical issue of housing supply by analyzing the roles of different types of developers, distinguished by profit status, geographic footprint, owner race/ethnicity and gender, number of units produced or rehabilitated, and the estimated value of those units.
The Challenges Facing Small or Emerging Multifamily Housing Developers and Strategies to Overcome Them
In this brief, we describe challenges faced by small or emerging multifamily housing developers, who, when operating at scale, can play a crucial role in expanding housing supply.
Growing Housing Developers
Growing Housing Developers (GHD) is a four-year, $40 million initiative funded by Wells Fargo to support a cohort of 39 affordable and market-rate housing developers. Wells Fargo partnered with four community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to implement the program, offering capital and support services with the goal of producing 2,000 units of affordable housing and strengthening the cohort of developers.
Guide to Identify and Mitigate the Negative Effects of Gentrification Caused by Transportation Investment
Local and state governments across the United States spend billions of dollars each year building new transportation projects—including roadways, bike lanes, and rail lines. These investments play an important role in expanding access to employment, recreation, and services for Americans. That improved mobility and its associated neighborhood improvements, such as new station facilities, can also contribute to neighborhood demographic change.
CDFIs Are Pillars of Local Economic Growth for Rural and Urban Communities
Americans in all communities depend on financial services—whether it’s the construction of new affordable housing, a loan to start or expand a business, or a savings account for emergencies. Yet many consumers, business owners, and real estate developers don’t have access to banks, credit unions, and other institutions that provide these services at prices affordable to those with limited resources.
The Promise and Pitfalls of the Washington, DC, Region’s Strong Capital Flows
Home to the nation’s capital and millions of people who live and work in the area, the Washington, DC, region has both significant wealth and economic disparities. The area’s growing population has brought increased investment to the District and its surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs, but that investment—and the benefits that come with it—has not been evenly distributed across the region, limiting economic opportunity for residents and pricing many out of their communities.
Exploring Capital Flows in Chicago
How investment patterns vary across neighborhoods in the Windy City Like many cities across the US, Chicago has been facing an economic whiplash over the past decade. After the Great Recession, investment growth in the city rebounded in subsequent years only to stall and reverse during the pandemic-related economic downturn. But there isn’t just one story of investment trends in Chicago. Depending on where you look, Chicago can be highly invested and affluent or it can be disinvested and declining.
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