The foreclosure crisis that has so firmly underscored the country’s recent economic decline isn’t just about devastated families losing their homes. It is also about neighborhoods losing their economic equilibrium and skidding toward blight and crime. Learn how LISC has responded aggressively to the foreclosure crisis to transform and stabilize distressed communities in the new special report Tackling Foreclosures with Long-Term Solutions. Learn more.

Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment -- representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living -- as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism? Grid / Street / Place, from the American Planning Association, presents a unique approach to understanding urban design through scientific, empirical research. Learn more.

Smart, Green & Growing Planning Guide outlines Maryland’s long-range, multi-agency initiative focused on protecting Maryland’s precious, yet limited, air, water and land resources in every region of the state. It’s time to move from 20 years of treading water to 20 years of cleaner water, healthier communities and more sustainable growth. Sound land use planning, from State smart growth programs to local government and citizen actions, is a critical piece in this Smart, Green & Growing strategy. Learn more.

Foreclosing the Dream provides an important discussion of why the housing and financial crisis occurred, including the financial manipulations that triggered the meltdown. National housing policies, presidential politics, household demographic changes, altered residential location preferences, and inter-local development competition were contributing causes. Understanding these multiple causes is the necessary foundation for designing public policies and plans that can revive housing markets, strengthen the national economy, and coordinate national, regional, and local policies to combat negative effects of climate change. Learn more.