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Cascade

Cascade is a community development publication produced three times a year by the Community Affairs Department. Cascade has a primary readership in financial institutions, nonprofits, and government agencies in the Third Federal Reserve District.

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Cascade Briefs

Cascade Briefs is a periodic electronic newsletter containing timely news and information on community development and financial education. You can view the most recent issue or sign up to receive this publication by e-mail.

Current Issue

No. 74, Spring/Summer 2010

This issue of Cascade features an article on the emerging clean energy economy; a Drexel University team that measures the results of energy-efficiency improvements; three new energy funds with nearly $100 million in available financing; reverse mortgages; resident-owned manufactured home communities, including one in Delaware; constraints on CRA lending and investing; and a CDFI’s focus on managing delinquency.

• Steps Toward a Clean Energy Recovery
• Message from the Community Affairs Officer
• Drexel Advises PHA on Energy Improvements
• TRF Manages Three New Energy Loan Funds
• Resident-Owned Manufactured Home Communities
• Minquadale Village: Delaware’s First Resident-Owned Community under New State Law
• Bankers Explain Constraints on CRA Lending and Investing
• Spotlight on Research: Is a Reverse Mortgage in Your Retirement Plans?
• CDFI Intensifies Focus on Delinquency Management
• Balancing Enterprise, Environment, and Equity
• Rethink. Recover. Rebuild: Reinventing Older Communites
• Complete Issue (0.99 MB, 16 pages)

Recent Issues

No. 73, Winter 2010

This issue on rental housing trends and issues focuses on a Philadelphia Fed Community Affairs study entitled Affordability and Availability of Rental Housing in Pennsylvania, the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, the National Housing Trust, a study entitled No Renters in My Suburban Backyard: Land Use Regulation and Rental Housing, strategies for municipalities to respond to high rates of investor ownership of foreclosed units, a Pennsylvania program to assist rental property owners to reduce utility costs and adopt energy conservation measures, and a Federal Reserve Board of Governors series of meetings on the challenges faced by rental property owners.

No. 72, Fall 2009

The Fall 2009 issue focuses on the use of Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds in PA, NJ, and DE, proposals to strengthen the low income housing tax credit investment market, opportunities and challenges for the state of Delaware concerning American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, a review of a research paper on whether ARRA funds will reduce income inequality, ways in which PA, NJ, and DE are fighting foreclosure rescue scams, a payday lending law and a nonprofit's payday loan alternative in Delaware, and a PA law governing home improvement contractors.

No. 71, Spring/Summer 2009

This issue focuses on the effects of the economic recession on small businesses in the Third Federal Reserve District. Articles cover increased applications and lending by seven community development financial institution business lenders; increased business lending by credit unions; findings of a national small-business study; new programs to assist small businesses from the SBA, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, and the State of Delaware; increased demand for services from small business development centers; and application demand and bank collaboration at two rural Pennsylvania local development districts.