by LCD Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Housing, NeighborWorks America, Programs
Earlier this month, NeighborWorks America announced that it awarded more than $74 million in flexible grants to its 239 chartered nonprofit organizations. This fiscal-year (FY) 2020 grant funding (appropriated through the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020)... 
by LCD Staff | Jan 31, 2020 | Affordable Housing, Business Loans, Economic Development, Housing, North Dakota, Programs
Recent proposed changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) have sparked discord among federal regulators and raised serious concerns among community development groups, like Lewis & Clark Development Group, across the country. The CRA enacted in 1977,... 
by LCD Staff | Jan 13, 2020 | Affordable Housing, DREAM Fund, Home Loans, Housing, News & Analysis
(Source: The Washington Post) — They’re here. For years, real estate agents and builders eagerly anticipated the entrance of millennials into the housing market. Millennials, a generation now larger than the baby boomers, were battered by the financial crisis as... 
by LCD Staff | Dec 23, 2019 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Economic Development, Housing, NeighborWorks America, North Dakota
Say “statistics” and you’ll get some powerful reactions. For some, the very word elicits dread, while, for others, it prompts flashbacks to high school and college classes. For many, it makes eyelids heavy. And, when verbalized, it can cause the mind... 
by LCD Staff | Sep 29, 2019 | Affordable Housing, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Economic Development, Home Loans, Housing, NeighborWorks America, Programs
Earlier this month, LCD Group Executive Director Brent Ekstrom traveled to Knoxville, Tenneseee to attend NeighborWorks America Rural Membership Conference, ‘Reclaiming Appalachia: Investing in Community, Cooperation and Change.’ NeighborWorks America... 
by LCD Staff | Sep 19, 2019 | Housing, News & Analysis
(Credit: The MReport) — For the first time, the annual growth rate in home sales to first-time buyers under performed the single-family housing market, as first-time buyers purchased 4% fewer homes in Q2 2019 than last year, according to Genworth. First-time... 