Community Developers Roundtable

The Community Developers Roundtable is a collective network and capacity-building initiative for established non-profit and for-profit community oriented real estate developers, that reflect the communities in which they serve.


The Roundtable builds the community development ecosystem by offering a longer term, developer-led structure with ongoing feedback and accountability. Roundtable participants have access to critical capital to fund innovative and impactful community-oriented real estate projects and to grow their organizational capacity.



Why Now?


Across Dallas, there is a need to build capacity for existing and rising community-oriented developers bringing innovative solutions to increase housing affordability and community-based amenities in order to stabilize and revitalize neighborhoods. 


Many emerging markets are limited in capacity and typically lack access to flexible capital and partnerships. Empowering existing, community-focused developers will allow increased possibilities to address neighborhood-level concerns in our communities, including minimal attainable housing options, fear of displacement, and loss of communal assets like community-led grocers and retailers.



Impact:

By aggregating partnerships, maintaining community, and promoting collective strategies, the Roundtable will strengthen the community development ecosystem, increase the capacity and collective voice of community-oriented developers, and increase developer’s pipeline focused on housing affordability and community-based amenities.


2022-2023 Impact Report

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