CD Publications began as a news service firm located in Silver Spring, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C.

It produces web-based news services and newsletters, whose topics of coverage include housing, health care, education, funding, aging and Native Americans.

In December 2013, the Gerecht family relinquished ownership of the company, selling it to Eli Global Research of Durham, North Carolina.

In late 1999, CD Pubs bought The Maturing Marketplace from Silver Spring-based Business Publishers, Inc., and folded it into Selling to Seniors, which at the time was edited by Allison Patterson.

As part of the same deal in which the company acquired NAR and CPR, CD Publications sold Homeland Security Funding Report to Eli.

In September 2010, however, the company reprised its coverage of security-related issues with the creation of Public Safety Funding Report.

CYF posts announcements of federal, foundation and private grants for child welfare, juvenile justice, education, health care and other related areas.

CDD's coverage of community development projects has included transit, as in February 1999 reports on federal light-rail systems to be funded under the 1998 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

[2] In early 2008, CDD invested news space on lobbying efforts of the National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations (NACEDA) for legislation to prevent home foreclosures,[3][4] as well as attacks on the Bush Administration's proposed FY09 budget cuts to CDBG.

[11] Currently, CDD posts updates on such issues as community planning, infrastructure financing, enterprise zones, downtown and rural development, housing rehabilitation and preservation, and neighborhood revitalization.

[12] It began publication four years before the creation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a significant percentage of its coverage since then has focused on HUD.

Its coverage includes the Older Americans Act, long-term care, Social Security and Medicare, transportation, health and nutrition, senior law and elder abuse.