Tools and Resources
The Community Development Department offers a variety of tools and resources pertaining to community development issues.
Fed Small Business
This website is home to the latest reports base on the Small Business Credit Survey. This survey provides timely insights on small-business conditions to policymakers, service providers, and lenders. The survey is a national sample of small businesses, and its reports focus attention on growing and changing segments of the small-business market, including startups, minority-owned firms, women-owned firms, rural firms, and self-employed and gig-economy workers. Learn more
Home Mortgage Explorer
This data tool, developed by the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and Cleveland, allows users to more easily explore trends in mortgage lending between 2010 and 2017 for the nation, states, and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Explore
Investing in America’s Workforce
Focused on improving outcomes for workers and employers, this Federal Reserve System initiative provides resources including reports, books, and webinars.
Community Issues Survey
These reports summarize the foremost concerns both current and emerging among respondents of our Fourth District Community Issues survey.
FedCommunities.org
Through this one portal you can access hundreds of community development resources from thirteen Federal Reserve sites. Whether you’re a community development practitioner, banker, government official, policymaker, or academic, you’ll find data, applied research, webinars, podcasts, events, and much more from across the Federal Reserve System.
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