Rental Market Stresses Impacts of the Great Recession on Affordability and Multifamily Lending Despite record-high vacancy rates and falling rents in some areas, the Great Recession did little to halt the long-term erosion of rental housing affordability. The number of financially stressed renters has expanded, while affordable housing available to these households has shrunk. Read More
Weathering the Recession The Financial Crisis and Family Wealth Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods The recent financial crisis has shown the importance of asset building. This report sheds light on how families fared during the Great Recession, looking at those living in low-income neighborhoods who may see disproportionate effects from the crisis. Read More
Deploying Casey’s REI Framework Lessons from the Civic Sites Deploying Casey’s REI Framework: Lessons from the Civic Sites documents the efforts of the Casey Foundation to embed a race equity lens in its work within its Baltimore and Atlanta programs. Read More
The East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative A Commitment to Economic Inclusion This report documents the progress and lessons learned through the East Baltimore Revitalization Initiative, a large-scale community and economic development project to transform a distressed property into a vital residential and business community. Read More
Achieving Authentic Youth Engagement: Core Values & Guiding Principles National Summit on Authentic Youth Engagement This two-page fact sheet presents the three core values and related guiding principles that the Jim Casey Youth Opportunity Initiative believes young people in foster care need to truly have a say in planning their own future. The key to making it work? Authentic partnerships with adults. Read More
Beyond Bars Keeping Young People Safe at Home and Out of Youth Prisons This report provides a clear blueprint for closing youth prisons and replacing them with community-based juvenile justice services. Readers will learn how this new system can hold youth accountable — without resorting to incarceration — while cultivating a young person’s strengths, interests and sense of belonging. Read More
A Road Map to Quality Collective Impact Programming With Fiscal Independence The Providence Children and Youth Cabinet Story This report examines how the Rhode Island’s Providence Children and Youth Cabinet (CYC) has changed since adopting the Evidence2Success® framework seven years ago. During this time frame, CYC transitioned from backbone organization to agile and independent intermediary. Read More
Community Benefits Agreements: The Power, Practice, and Promise of a Responsible Redevelopment Tool The Casey Foundation convened experts on both sides of the redevelopment issue to discuss establishing community benefit agreements as a tool for helping low-income neighborhoods become a partner with business in the redevelopment process. Read More
End Games: The Challenge of Sustainability This report explores how funders and grantees think about sustainability, and how to best support and prepare promising projects for post-grant sustainability. Read More
The Essential Need for Partnering With Youth and Families to Fundamentally Transform Youth Probation Juvenile justice agencies must partner with youth and families to transform youth probation. Learn now to put these partnerships to work. Read More