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| Partnership for New Communities | |
|---|---|
| Name | Partnership for New Communities |
| Formation | 1990s |
| Type | Nonprofit consortium |
| Headquarters | Community-based |
| Region served | Urban neighborhoods |
| Leader title | Executive Director |
Partnership for New Communities is a nonprofit consortium focused on neighborhood revitalization, housing development, and community services in urban areas. Founded amid urban redevelopment efforts, the organization collaborates with public agencies, philanthropic organizations, and community groups to pursue mixed-income housing, economic development, and social services. It operates through partnerships with municipal agencies, housing authorities, nonprofit developers, and financial institutions.
The organization's origins trace to collaborations inspired by urban renewal debates following projects like Hope VI and programs modeled after Community Development Block Grant initiatives, drawing lessons from Brown v. Board of Education litigation impacts on housing patterns and from policy shifts exemplified by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Early partners included local housing authoritys influenced by precedents set in cities such as Chicago and New York City, and philanthropic funders similar to Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation. Its founding period overlapped with influential urban studies by authors like Jane Jacobs and planning movements associated with Robert Moses controversies, and later collaborations echoed efforts in Cleveland revitalization and Detroit neighborhood stabilization. The group’s evolution paralleled federal initiatives like the Community Reinvestment Act updates and state-level housing trusts modeled after California Housing Finance Agency programs, often engaging with policy debates highlighted by the Urban Institute and housing research from Harvard Kennedy School.
The partnership uses a coalition model combining nonprofit developers, resident councils, and municipal agencies such as offices akin to New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Chicago Department of Housing. Governance typically includes a board with representatives from foundations like Rockefeller Foundation, legal partners resembling Legal Services Corporation, and financial partners patterned after Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Day-to-day operations are overseen by an executive director and program directors with advisory input from technical experts drawn from institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University, and from civic organizations including Local Initiatives Support Corporation and Enterprise Community Partners. The model features community advisory boards comparable to resident councils in Seattle or San Francisco HOPE SF initiatives.
Programs include mixed-income housing development inspired by HOPE SF and HOPE VI conversions, tenant services reminiscent of those offered by Mercy Housing and Habitat for Humanity, and workforce development aligned with Year Up and JobTrain efforts. Services incorporate supportive housing models grounded in practices from Corporation for Supportive Housing and Pathways to Housing, early childhood programming similar to Head Start, and small business technical assistance modeled after SCORE and Accion USA. The partnership runs asset-building initiatives like those associated with Asset-Based Community Development practitioners and homeownership counseling akin to NeighborWorks America programs. It often pilots transit-oriented development strategies reflecting projects around Metra, Bay Area Rapid Transit, and Washington Metro corridors.
Funding sources mirror a blend of public subsidies such as Low-Income Housing Tax Credit allocations like those overseen by Internal Revenue Service rules, capital from community development financial institutions similar to Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, and grants from major philanthropies such as Annie E. Casey Foundation and Kresge Foundation. Partnerships extend to municipal housing departments similar to Philadelphia Housing Authority, state housing finance agencies like Massachusetts Housing Partnership, and federal agencies including Department of Housing and Urban Development programs. Private sector collaborations involve banks engaged under Community Reinvestment Act commitments, philanthropic intermediaries like The Rockefeller Foundation, and research partnerships with universities such as University of California, Berkeley and University of Chicago urban labs.
Impact assessments reference metrics used by organizations such as Urban Institute, Abt Associates, and evaluators at RAND Corporation, measuring outcomes like housing stability, eviction rates influenced by trends in Eviction Lab data, small business survival comparable to studies by Brookings Institution, and educational outcomes tracked by Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT indicators. Evaluations have used mixed-methods approaches seen in reports from Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and National Low Income Housing Coalition, and leveraged data from municipal registries and census tools like American Community Survey. Documented impacts often include reductions in concentrated poverty similar to results reported in Moving to Opportunity studies and improvements in neighborhood amenities comparable to redevelopment in Pilsen, Chicago or Times Square revitalization narratives.
Critiques parallel controversies faced by initiatives such as HOPE VI and debates around displacement documented after gentrification episodes in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C., raising concerns akin to those in reports from NAACP advocacy and civil rights litigation exemplified by cases involving Fair Housing Act enforcement. Critics have cited tensions comparable to those in collaborations with municipal agencies like Los Angeles Housing Department over resident inclusion, and contested outcomes similar to anti-displacement campaigns led by groups such as Right to the City and ACORN. Academic critiques from scholars affiliated with Princeton University and University of California, Los Angeles have raised questions about measurement practices used by evaluators like Urban Institute and about equity effects noted in analyses by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Category:Community development organizations