Webinar | Everyone is Welcome Here: Addressing Immigration Issues Facing Our Communities | March 17, 11 a.m. EDT
The Housing & Community Development Network of NJ and the Alliance for Immigrant Justice cosponsor this webinar about how CDCs can help meet the needs of new American residents, refugees and others in uncertain and challenging times.
|
Webinar | How Advocates Can Help Stop President Trump's $7 Billion Cut to HUD In Its Tracks | March 20, 4 p.m. EDT
The National Low Income Housing Coalition and other leaders of the Campaign for Housing and Community Development Funding present this webinar on proposals to severely cut funding for critical HUD resources that help some of the most vulnerable in our communities. Learn more about how you can help fight back against these budget cuts.
|
Growing Sustainable Communities | Call For Presentations
The 10th annual Growing Sustainable Communities Conference to be held Oct. 3-4 in Dubuque, Iowa, is now accepting proposals for workshop presentations. More than 30 presentations will be selected among those submitted. The submission deadline is March 19.
|
Help support the voice of community development
|
|
 |
|
Preliminary HUD Budget Shows Carson Lied in His Confirmation Hearing Too
Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce
I remember watching Ben Carson's confirmation hearing and remember that despite some classically offensive and terrifying comments about public assistance and dependency, he sounded fairly moderate much of the time, like someone who wasn't salivating to dismantle the agency. But now . . . More
|
Tenant Organizers Go for Scale
Causa Justa :: Just Cause and Tenants Together
Early this month, tenant leaders and organizers from throughout California gathered in L.A. to align our visions of housing justice, share strategies to build power, and move together across issues for a powerful response to the housing crisis, gentrification and displacement. Here is what we learned and plan on doing this year . . . More
|
Disclosure Remains Our Right
Ted Wysocki, Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA)-USA
Social justice relies on disclosure--by our government and from our independent press. The threats to both in this new political age are reminding organizers of our roots and forcing us to again . . . More
|
Millennial Women and Retirement Savings: Start Where You Are
Lillian Singh and Joanna Ain, CFED
Career and life opportunities for Millennial women are greater than any previous generation of women, but the barriers to saving are numerous. How can this age group prepare themselves for retirement and old age now, and advocate for common-sense changes to federal programs designed to care for . . . More
|
Review of The Good Landlord, by Peter Gilman Shapiro
Roger Markovics, United Tenants of Albany
When I picked up Peter Shapiro's book The Good Landlord: A Guide to Making a Profit While Making a Difference, my first thought was, "What happens when you can't do both, or have to choose one over the other?" My cynicism is a product of 46 years of experience as a community worker in a small . . . More
|
Richard, I think your point about results-based vs method-based is interesting and on point, but you qualify for results-based car safety by doing crash tests. Each builder is not likely to want to try to burn down a whole building in order to prove . . . --Miriam Axel-Lute, more
A great read with some good breakdowns of complex issues. However, it's slightly dissatisfying that the "what can be done" conclusion implies a market-based approach, as opposed to angling for more structural aims . . . --Jeff Kruth, more
Author Reply
I am not sure why you say this implies a market based solution. I am not implying that. I am stating it explicitly--in the very first sentence . . . Saying that the market can do something is not the same as saying that it can do everything. --Rick Jacobus, more
Both building more housing generally and investing in affordable housing specifically, are necessary to dig us out of the hole we're in. --Josh, more
New development is not improving the affordable housing situation because much new luxury development replaces existing affordable units. Unfortunately, California's property tax and Proposition 13 exacerbate . . . --Rick Rybeck, more
Author Reply
No two markets are the same, least of all in land development. It is therefore pertinent to ask why "regulations" as a generic concept are the bogeyman of developers . . . These questions are important because bundled among the targeted "regulations" may be those that ensure affordable housing be preserved, financed, and built . . . --Murtaza Baxamusa, more |
|
|
|
Real Estate Developer
This role oversees all stages of affordable housing development, and ensures that project objectives are reached within prescribed time frames and funding parameters . . . Read Full Listing
|
President and Chief Executive Officer
An affordable housing leader in the Northwest seeks an experienced and innovative CEO who has the opportunity to take the organization and its mission to the next level . . . Read Full Listing
|
|
|
|
|
Training Coordinator
Our largest audiences are community land trust and shared-equity practitioners. The TC will be the point person for all virtual and place-based trainings and will play . . . Read Full Listing
|
State and Local Policy Manager
The SLP Manager will be responsible for leading housing policy technical assistance engagements to local governments. They will have the duty and authority to ensure . . . Read Full Listing
|
|
|
|
Share
Shelterforce Weekly
with your colleagues
|
Interfaith Worker Justice
Murtaza Baxamusa
Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC
Housing Assistance Council
USC Price School of Public Policy
Janis Bowdler
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
HOPE Credit Union
Burlington Associates
Democracy Collaborative
Gamaliel Foundation
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service
Planner, Louisa County, Va.
Tulane University
Habitat for Humanity
National Urban League
CFED
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
NCRC
San Francisco Community
Land Trust
Baltimore Community Foundation
|
|
|
|
|
|
