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Economic development was the most talked-about issue in 2017 State of the City speeches, according to recent analysis conducted by the National League of Cities. Further, “there is a sustained [...]

Martha Brown, Ken Little and Matt Haessly are part of the Equitable Economic Development (EED) Fellowship team from Milwaukee. This week, they reflect on their experience in the program and how [...]

Jim Terrell works in community planning and economic development policy for the city of Minneapolis. This week, he talks about the city’s new Access to Capital program and why an equitable [...]

John Smith and Jason Ewas work in economic development policy for the city of Boston. This week, they share how equity plays a central role in Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s economic development agenda.

We meet Paul Young, one of NLC’s Equitable Economic Development (EED) fellows and director of housing and community development for the city of Memphis, Tennessee, to discuss the city’s equitable [...]

WASHINGTON – June 6, 2017 – Today, National League of Cities (NLC), PolicyLink and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) announced the selection of six additional cities for participation in the [...]

U.S. mayors are working diligently to help solve the pressing issues of revitalization, equity, and resilience facing the country’s cities. “Once upon a time, equity was a self-evident truth [...]

We meet one of NLC’s Equitable Economic Development (EED) Fellows, Gwendolyn Tillotson of Houston, and discuss how the city is reaching its most vulnerable communities and increasing their access [...]

Of the four cities that are involved in the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership’s 2017 fellowship program, the capital of Silicon Valley is the most populous of the bunch. So it might not be [...]

Coming out of the Great Recession, Grand Rapids found itself to be one of the hottest markets in the nation, with new jobs in the health care and technology sectors and a ton of new construction, [...]