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Coalition is composed of nonprofit developers and their
partners working to reverse the downward spiral of social and economic
conditions in South Florida's lowest income neighborhoods. |
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Plan
Creation Kit
Miami-Dade
African American Historic Sites
Undoing
Racism
Despite
denial by many, society is built
on a race
construct. There is no quick fix. Part of the answer is to
recognize it and say it
Case
Study: Little Haiti
Housing
Association
FannieMae
Foundation Journal
Miami-Dade
Legislative
Delegation
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Redevelopment
CDCs
are undertaking the toughest deals
reaching
the lowest income families. The neighborhoods that CDCs are working
in are where for profit developers will not go without incentives.
Basic issues of financial feasibility prevent the private sector
from taking on ventures in these low income neighborhoods. Barriers
include: low appraised values, high costs of development, high
costs of land, expensive "brownfield" cleanup, expensive lien
clearance, high relocation expenses, the difficulty of dealing with
the patchwork pattern of real estate ownership, and the necessity
of having to redevelop the typically decrepit infrastructure
(sewers, water, etc.). On top of all that, local government
inadvertently imposes additional costs by its unnecessarily
cumbersome construction approval process. For-profit developers
don't go into these neighborhoods unless they are in partnership
with CDCs because CDCs can provide them with the necessary
incentives. CDC sponsored ventures, therefore, erve to create a
"jump start" affect. After a while the appraised values of
neighborhood properties begin to drift upwards and the normal
market forces are once again allowed to work.
Poverty
and inequality mean wasted
human resources and depleted social capital. Inequality is
as much an issue for
business as it is for community activists.
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South
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Nonprofit
Developers
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CALENDAR
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EVENTS
Become a
"CHDO" Community Housing Development
Organization
Become a
"CBDO" Community Based Development
Organization
List of CDC
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Core
Services of the
Coalition
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Policy
Papers and Public Education:
The Coalition
seeks to create a more supportive environment for community based
development in South Florida through a strategy of
of producing policy papers that research the causes and solutions to
uneven development and public education on the results of this research.
Forum: The Coalition provides a
forum for
CDCs to develop
policies and positions, share experiences, and develop a unified
voice for the industry.
Publications:
"InfoFax" and "E-Mail
Dispatch" are regularly
distrubuted to hundreds of people and organizations interested in
community development activities providing information on policy
changes, advocacy efforts, available funding, resources and
training opportunities, and other issues.
Web
Site.
the "floridacdc.org" website provides a
comprehensive gateway to news, research links, policy papers, and other
resources of interest to the nonprofit developer community.
Capacity
Building: Works with nonprofit developers to
upgrade their
technological infrastructure to better able them to access
community development resources electronically.
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