Sarah Greenberg joins Forward Community Investments as regional director for southeast Wisconsin. Greenberg has previously served in various roles at NeighborWorks America, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Northwest Side CDC. 
 
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Webinar | Connecting Communities | Preserving Affordable Rural Rental Housing: New Tools and Promising Practices | May 4, 3 p.m. EDT 
  
This webinar, sponsored by the Federal Reserve System, will explore strategies that are being implemented to preserve the thousands of affordable rental properties in rural communities in danger of being lost in the next decade.  
 
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Medicaid Fills Coverage Gaps in Rural Areas 
  
A  new brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the role of Medicaid in rural America, where residents are more likely than in urban areas to be low income, have a disability, be unemployed or lack private health insurance.  
 
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SAHF: The Path to Partnership 
In  this new report, the Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future present lessons learned from their joint initiatives between affordable housing providers and Medicaid managed-care programs.  
 
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On Unequal Footing: Racial Divides in the Housing Market 
This  brief report by Zillow shows how people of color are harmed by decreases in housing affordability.  
 
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The New Shelterforce Weekly 
  
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Doctors Join the Fight Against Speculators 
Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce 
Could the next frontier of cooperation between health care professionals and housing advocates be tenant rights organizing? Campaigns in these cities show that it might be. More 
 
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A New Kind of Foreclosure Crisis Is in the Making 
Brian Levinson, NeighborWorks America 
Some folks, even in community development, think the foreclosure crisis is over, but there's a new emergency within the more vulnerable segments of our population--and it's hitting the elderly particularly hard. More 
 
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Upside-Down Tax Reform: Cuts at the Expense of Working Families 
Chad Bolt and David Newville, CFED 
This Wednesday, President Trump released a one-page outline of a tax plan that he says provides tax relief for the middle class, but don't be fooled: like the American Health Care Act, which actually was a massive tax cut for the wealthy disguised as health care reform, this plan is also a massive tax cut for people who need one the least. This time, it is merely disguised as "tax relief" and "simplification." For starters . . . More 
 
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More power to the residents in Atlanta occupying abandoned Turner Field. Where are the organizations going online to raise money to support their efforts? --Herb Fisher,  more 
 
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Senior Manager, Communications 
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Housing and Facilities Program Manager 
Oversees the effective development of housing and community facilities for our project sponsors, and is responsible for the development of multi- and single-family housing and community facility projects for CASA and . . . Read Full Listing 
 
 
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MHC seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial, mission-driven CEO to champion and implement the development and operations of high-quality, innovative affordable housing and resident leadership programs . . . Read Full Listing 
 
 
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