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Done Waiting for Feds, State and Local Governments Step Up on Housing

Daniel McCue, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

Some state and local governments are no longer waiting for federal funds to help alleviate the affordable housing crisis. Here are some ways they're working to keep and add to their stock, but will it be enough? More

Starting a Social Enterprise? You Need to Know This

Jenifer Kaminsky, Buffalo Neighborhood Stabilization Company

This CDC knew what it was doing in most aspects of its new business line. But one thing it hadn't thought of nearly brought the endeavor to the brink of disaster. In the end, it was an easy fix. More

Earned Income Shouldn't Replace Public Funding for Community Development

Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce

Our original plan for "Getting Beyond the Developer Fee" was to seek out community-based organizations that were actively trying to back away from developer fees. We found none. We did find, however. . . More

Housers: Seniors Need You to Branch Out

Jonathan Reckford, Habitat for Humanity International

Aging in place brings a host of benefits to seniors and communities, but housing groups will need to move beyond standard new construction programs to support it, by. . . More

You Said It!

On Say What, Washington Post? Declining Homeownership Rates Aren't a Good Thing

It's unfortunate that many families who were suckered into bad loans are living with the consequences of mortgage exploitation. And, yes, many of those families continue to rent to this day. But, this blanket assumption that homeownership should be . . . --Chris, more

Ownership doesn't always mean detached single family home ownership. The ownership rate in Italy is higher than the U.S. but that comes in the form of . . . --Eric, more

On Homelessness Is Falling Despite Worsening Conditions. Why?

I recently heard a director of social services state that, in a recent Point-in-Time Count . . . only three persons were counted as homeless. However, according to the public school bus driver that picked up 40 children each day from two local hotels in the small community, the number of homeless far exceeds the three persons identified . . . --David Cooper, more

Nan, I share your policy analysis and appreciate your optimism. Yet in 2016 cities up and down the West Coast are setting new records for encampments. NYC homelessness has also gotten worse. Meanwhile, the nation's housing and homelessness crisis is . . . --Randy Shaw, more

On Does Place Matter Anymore? Cities and the 2016 Election

I think it is clear, just not apparent enough, that there is certainly one Presidential candidate who has acknowledged the need for better housing policy and . . . --Angela Shuckahosee, more

Is it possible we in the urbanist universe are experiencing a choir effect? It feels like we are part of a "movement," that we have some critical mass, but if I step through the veil to . . . --Adam Tauno Williams, more

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