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Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development’s Division of Just Communities Selected for Rural and Small Cities Program

Our 2025 Year In Review

In 2025, our work focused on public finance across nature and the built environment, guided by a core question: How might communities that have historically received the least investment receive more when public finance is approached through an integrated lens that also centers place-based outcomes?

Rural & Small Cities Partner Spotlight: Gina Young, Director of the East Maui Water Authority

As part of the Rural & Small Cities Program, we caught up with Gina Young, Director of the East Maui Water Authority, about how the EMWA is working to advance community priorities and long-term stewardship goals.

Leveraging Community Engagement Practices to Shape & Fund the Future of the East Maui Water System

Learn how we're working with the East Maui Water Authority to leverage community engagement to create a roadmap toward values-based water governance.

Introducing the Rural & Small Cities Program

The mission of the Rural & Small Cities Program is to shift decades-long patterns of disinvestment by actively building the capacity of states, counties, cities, and towns to unlock vital public finance resources.

Municipal Bond Markets & Racial Equity Technical Assistance Cohort Announcement

Cities Provide an Early Look at How Governments Are Advancing Racial Equity

December 27, 2021, The Tax Policy Center

How impact investors can leverage the infrastructure bill to help disinvested communities catch up

November 18, 2021, Source: Impact Alpha

Tax Incentives Can Power More Equitable, Inclusive Growth

May 5, 2021, Source: The Brookings Institution/What Works Cities Medium

New program to help cities tackle fiscal recovery with an emphasis on equity

August 19, 2020, Source: Bloomberg Cities Medium

Upcoming Event: How Do You Create an Innovation Culture in Cities?

July 24, 2015, Source: Microsoft

Microsoft PowerMap and PowerView — Living Histories of Communities Across America

January 27, 2015, Source: Microsoft