Financing low-income communities : models, obstacles, and future directions / Julia Sass Rubin, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubin, Julia Sass.

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial services industry--United States.

Financial services industry.

Poor.

Finance, Personal.

United States.

Poor--United States--Finance, Personal.

Banks and banking--Customer services--United States.

Banks and banking.

Banks and banking--Customer services.

Consumer education--United States.

Consumer education.

Community development--United States.

Community development.

Physical Description:

xii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction / Julia Sass Rubin

New savings from old innovations : asset building for the less affluent / Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano

Financial education and community economic development / Jeanne M. Hogarth, Jane Kolodinsky and Marianne A. Hilgert

Making U.S. microenterprise work : recommendations for policy makers and the field / Lisa Servon

Financing organizations with debt and equity : the role of community development loan and venture capital funds / Julia Sass Rubin

The un-banks : the community development role of alternative depository institutions / Marva E. Williams

Financing production of low- and moderate-income housing / Rachel G. Bratt

Predatory lending and community development at loggerheads / Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy

Measuring the impact of community development financial institutions' activities / Robinson Hollister.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780871547118

0871547112

OCLC:

123136627