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The interorganizational connections maintained by community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are examined with data obtained from a survey of CDFI executive directors and three case studies. The network actors are observed across three dimensions: collaboration, resource dependence, and information exchange, from the perspective of an intermediary organization. The following analysis, couched in the theory of efficient network structure, illustrates that governance structures within the CDFI industry involve an identifiable cohort of public, nonprofit, and private sector actors, and these associations facilitate a system of network links across an expansive array of resource needs.

Housing investment activities of community development corporations (CDCs) can be associated with a positive impact on the residential real estate market within their respective service area. Relying on a pseudo-experimental approach, the appreciation rate of single-family housing in CDC treatment and comparison areas is tested with a traditional hedonic model with pooled data. The results suggest that the area that is served by the 12 established CDCs operating in Center Township in the city of Indianapolis experienced a higher overall appreciation in the mean residential home value from 1987 to 2000 than did a comparison area in Center Township not served by CDCs.