Membership Benefits

A responsive staff that will keep you informed and work on your issues.

Access to experts, federal policy makers, and other housing and community development practitioners from across the country.

Legislative and regulatory impact to secure continued funding for CDBG and HOME and ensure the programs work well for local governments.

Email alerts on federal budget and appropriation actions on CDBG and HOME.

Conferences. The NCDA winter and annual conferences bring together hundreds of affordable housing and community development professionals to learn, network, and share ideas. Members receive discounts on conference registration fees.

NCDA Washington Report, a monthly newsletter to keep you informed of developments in housing and community development.

NCDAonline.org. The official website of NCDA. NCDAonline.org provides links to other related sites and allows members to communicate with one another through the NCDAonline Forum on program issues in a real-time format.

The online Jobs Board allows members to post jobs and view jobs from other members.

The online Documents Archive allows members to post and share program documents.

CDBG Coalition. NCDA helped create and leads the CDBG Coalition, a group of national organizations that work together to educate Congress on the importance of CDBG to ensure the protection of program funding.

National Community Development (CD) Week. NCDA helped create National Community Development Week in 1987 to bring national attention and grassroots support to the CDBG program. National CD Week continues as an annual campaign of NCDA, its members, and national partners. NCDA provides an annual National CD Week tool kit and other valuable information for members to organize their National CD Week activities.