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Financing Low Income Communities Julia Sass Rubin, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development--United States.
- Community development.
- Consumer education--United States.
- Consumer education.
- Banks and banking--Customer services--United States.
- Banks and banking.
- Poor--United States--Finance, Personal.
- Poor.
- Financial services industry--United States.
- Financial services industry.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Access to capital and financial services is crucial for healthy communities. However, many impoverished individuals and neighborhoods are routinely ignored by mainstream financial institutions. This neglect led to the creation of community development financial institutions (CDFIs), which provide low-income communities with financial services.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-481-7
- OCLC:
- 654406015
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