Lisa Sturtevant, former vice president for research at the National Housing Conference (NHC) recently stepped down from that position to launch a consulting firm focusing on housing market analyses and program and policy evaluation. Read her writing for the Rooflines blog here.
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Call for Applications | Culture of Health Leaders
The Build Healthy Places Network announces a $60,000 leadership development funding opportunity. This 3-year leadership program includes a leadership development curriculum, mentoring and coaching, in-person convenings and support to complete a bold cross-sector project. The call for applications is open through April 19, 2016.
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 What Made NJ Divest from Payday Lending?Shawn Aiken, freelance writer
How advocates in New Jersey mobilized to make a state pension fund put its money where its state regulations are . . . More
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Luxury Housing Is Not the Enemy
Rick Jacobus, Street Level Advisors
In hot markets, displacement is a real problem, and there are many ways to address it, but restricting construction shouldn't be one of them . . . More
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In Austin, Corporations Don't Get Paid for Promises
Amy Evans, writer and educator
Many cities give away the store to corporations to get them to come to town.
Austin is not that city . . . More
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Matthew Desmond's "Evicted" Supports, Challenges Housing Field
Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce
For the community development field, the publication of Evicted is a very interesting moment. The need for stable, decent-quality, affordable housing is suddenly the unapologetic center of a sensation . . . More
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Let's Transform the Zip Codes
Bill Bynum, HOPE Credit Union
One of America's best writers, William Faulkner, in explaining why he always set his fiction in the South, said: "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about, and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it." . . . More
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| Cities will have to start backing the projects in better areas if they want to attract and retain working income families. Since the middle class is shrinking everywhere, this is the income group for whom we should be building . . . --Maryellen Hess Cameron on Are the Kids All Right? Austin Is Asking |
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HUD has a terminated mortgage insurance database that shows, since 1940, the buildings it stimulates through insurance and interest right downs -- via the Sections of the first Housing Act. Take a glance at the properties that were built housing for the working class. Seems to me that significant precedent exists to renew, revive, or mimic these financing streams . . . --Rachel Johnston
Nice idea, however the problems are services, like transportation and other appointments that must be traveled to. Additionally, it doesn't take developers long to start selling $200,000 houses to those needing/desiring affordable options in housing, for $300-400,000. We have been seeing this for many decades . . . --Dan Rapson
This option may not work well for all households with low incomes (especially those who would benefit from onsite services or case management), but it may work well for some. At a minimum, it would provide an additional option for creating inclusionary housing in jurisdictions where inclusionary zoning is not enabled or is outright prohibited. More arrows in our quiver sounds good to me . . .
--Andree Tremoulet
San Francisco is expensive, but the city has already embarked on your recommended strategy through its Small Sites Program. The city funds nonprofits and community land trusts to acquire buildings of six units or less whose residents typically include longterm tenants facing Ellis Act evictions. So the strategy stops evictions and adds to the permanently affordable housing supply . . .
--Randy Shaw
This idea makes me want to move to France but it's more or less navel gazing in the USA where the lack of resources for affordable housing is a far bigger problem than the way it's delivered . . .
--Tim Mungavan
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Community Development Director
The Community Development Director will prepare assessments and inventories of existing community conditions and resources for revitalization and related projects in cooperation with community-based groups, local businesses, individual residents, appropriate city departments and other nonprofit org . . . Read Full Listing
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Director - Single Family Housing
This position requires strong real estate experience and a genuine commitment to the mission of building and preserving quality housing and transforming communities. The ideal candidate will have experience managing traditional "soft second" and NSP/HOME acquisition/rehab/sale programs, as well as a thorough understanding of . . . Read Full Listing
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Vice President for Applied Research
The Vice President for Applied Research designs and conducts applied research projects to examine the relationships between economic and demographic disparities in access to economic opportunity, and to support Woodstock Institute's policy advocacy. The research encompasses equitable lending and investments . . . Read Full Listing
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Associate Director,
Affordable Homeownership
CFED is a national nonprofit with a mission of empowering low- and moderate-income households to build and preserve assets. We seek a proven leader who combines a depth of affordable housing policy experience and project management know-how, who thrives on collaboration, curiosity, and . . . Read Full Listing
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