Resources for community partners

How to advance community wealth building in your geography. To learn more about different strategies for community wealth building, see our community wealth building page.

August 19, 2018

Community Control of Land and Housing: Exploring strategies for combating displacement, expanding ownership, and building community wealth

by Thomas Hanna, Jarrid Green

This report seeks to broaden awareness, discourse, and adoption of community control of land and housing strategies among various stakeholders who have a genuine desire to see stable, healthy, equitable, and sustainable local communities flourish.

July 12, 2021

Constructing the Democratic Public Bank: A governance proposal for Los Angeles

by Michael Brennan

Public banks have the potential to address a host of economic, social, and ecological crises. This report proposes a democratic public bank model for Los Angeles and elsewhere that addresses key questions of how public banks can best live up to that potential.

February 28, 2019

Building Resiliency through Green Infrastructure: A Community Wealth Building Approach

by Johanna Bozuwa

How investments in the green infrastructure needed for climate resiliency can be leveraged to build community wealth with worker cooperatives and social enterprises.

August 16, 2016

Conversations on Community Wealth Building

by Steve Dubb

Drawing on a decade’s worth of conversations with key leaders in the growing field, from cooperative developers and community activists to impact investors and social enterprise innovators, this book of interviews from the Democracy Collaborative dives into the front lines of the movement to build community wealth.

March 19, 2018

Community Wealth Building: Eight Basic Principles

Based on Ted Howard’s remarks to the recent Alternative Models of Ownership conference, we’ve distilled the eight basic principles behind community wealth building—a transformative approach to local economic development—into this handy one page guide.