Community Development & District Engagement
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Learning from Alaska Native, Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Indigenous Communities
Chad Marchand, sr. outreach manager focused on Tribal and Indigenous communities, had the opportunity to meet and engage with leaders from Alaska Native, Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Indigenous communities over the last several months. Here’s what he learned so far—and how we’re planning to strengthen our relationships with communities across the Twelfth District.
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Disaster Recovery in Northern California
At the five-year anniversary of the Tubbs Fire, the SF Fed visited a redevelopment site in Santa Rosa and spoke with community leaders about the progress being made and the challenges they continue to face in rebuilding. Here’s what we learned.
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How Does Worker Health and Safety Matter for Full Employment?
In this interview, Visiting Scholar Lola Loustaunau discusses her research with food processing workers in Oregon and Washington, how worker health and safety relates to full employment, ways to address barriers workers face, and COVID-19’s impact on workers in essential industries.
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Perspectives from Idaho
To succeed at the highest level, and to be inclusive so that everyone in a community can participate in that success, we need to work collaboratively. Leilani Barnett shares highlights from the Idaho Rural Success Summit, a cross-sector collaboration, which sought to spotlight successful examples of rural community development.
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What We Learned about Residential Instability in the Bay Area during COVID-19
Read our top takeaways from a new research brief that examines residential instability in the Bay Area during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Wildfire Smoke’s Impact in Los Angeles
At the SF Fed, we’re conducting research to quantify the economic impact of wildfire smoke across the region because climate risk affects our core responsibilities of conducting monetary policy, regulating and supervising the bank system, and ensuring a safe and sound payment system. Our Community Development team looked at wildfire smoke in the LA region over time and its potential effects on the economy and disadvantaged populations. Here’s what we learned.
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Reimagining Financial Systems to Create Thriving Economies
The SF Fed’s Community Development team offers lessons learned from the 2022 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference (NICRC), which sought to spark ideas, conversations, and actions to reimagine the community development field.
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Housing and Access to Credit Are Two Sides of the Financial Inclusion Coin
While insufficient access to financial systems is understood as a problem for people with low incomes, SF Fed senior researcher in Community Development, Rocio Sanchez-Moyano, looks at how people of color and immigrant communities struggle for financial equity, independent of income levels.
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Residential Instability in the City of Oakland and Implications for Data-Driven Policymaking
As part of our research on residential instability in the Bay Area, we partnered with the City of Oakland’s Department of Housing and Community Development to explore residential instability and racial inequities resulting from gentrification and housing unaffordability. Here are some key findings from our research along with considerations for policy and practice.