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Unaffordable for-sale single-family housing is no longer a problem confined to coastal urban markets. With homebuying out of reach for about one-third of the U.S. population, cities should encourage more apartment development, which will increase needed housing supply and do well for long-term investors.

IEDC's Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO) program recognizes organizational excellence in the areas of internal and external operations, structures, and procedures. This series profiles recently accredited AEDOs, putting some of economic development's highest-performing organizations in the spotlight. This edition: City of Miramar (Fla.) Economic Development and Housing Department.

IEDC's Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO) program recognizes organizational excellence in the areas of internal and external operations, structures, and procedures. This series profiles recently accredited AEDOs, putting some of economic development's highest-performing organizations in the spotlight. This edition: City of Brampton (Ont.) Economic Development Office.

IEDC held its Annual Conference last week in Oklahoma City featuring dozens of sessions covering today’s most important economic development topics. Here are a few of the highlights.

Michael Harris, CEcD, EDP, executive director of New Haven (Conn.) Innovation Collaborative, is part of the first cohort of certified Entrepreneurship Development Professionals. IEDC’s EDP credential is designed to build capacity for those supporting entrepreneurship in their communities, and demonstrates the skills and expertise to lead communities through entrepreneurship-led economic development (ELED). Harris has headed the New Haven Innovation Collaborative since 2018. NHIC catalyzes growth in technology and fosters entrepreneurship by building a collaborative work and research environment. Anchored by Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, and the University of New Haven, the city has a strong talent pool in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new perspective on how we live our lives and what is most important. Nothing reminds us of our need for socialization more than losing the ability to socialize for weeks or months at a time. As independent-minded as we so often are in good times, this challenge has helped us realize that our community is critical to our success. Reflecting in isolation and quarantine forced many of us to realize just how important our entire community is to our mental, physical, social, and economic well-being. We miss casual conversations with our neighbours, but we have also come to realize just how important it is to know our neighbours and to look out for each other. You may have dropped food at the door of someone in ...

As part of IEDC’s Take Action Against Racism in Economic Development webinar series, four presenters spoke about the geography of inequality and the relationship between place and economic opportunity. Robby Habans, PhD, economist at The Data Center in New Orleans, and Robert Manduca, PhD, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, gave an overview of place-based economic disparities on a micro and macro level. Habans presented his work on how life expectancy and economic mobility can vary at the neighborhood level within a single metropolitan area. In New Orleans and across the country, data show that life expectancy in majority Black census tracts is consistently lower than in majority non-Black census tracts ...

Minneapolis has become the first major U.S. city to end single-family zoning and allow residential buildings such as duplexes and triplexes in every neighborhood (The New York Times). The city hopes to address its affordable housing crisis and begin undoing decades of discriminatory housing and lending practices that have suppressed home ownership among minorities. This is a bold step to increasing supply; like Minneapolis, cities across the country continue to grapple with housing shortages. Meanwhile in Grand Rapids, Michigan, they’ve “kind of been doing this for a decade,” according to a city official (Next City). The city created a master plan to encourage different housing types and densities at various price ...