Are Homeowners Fueling the Housing Crisis?

In this Issue: Black Panther-Inspired Gift to Oakland Should Have Looked Like This ● New Program to Help CLTs Get to Scale ● Are Homeowners Fueling the Housing Crisis? ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events ● Industry News +

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 In this Issue: Black Panther-Inspired Gift to Oakland Should Have Looked Like This ● New Program to Help CLTs Get to Scale ● Are Homeowners Fueling the Housing Crisis? ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events ● Industry News + Black Panther-Inspired Gift to Oakland Should Have Looked Like This Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce On the heels of Disney’s billion-dollar blockbuster Black Panther, the studio has made a $1 million donation to Boys and Girls Clubs of America, which will open STEM centers in “underserved areas” of many cities, including Oakland, where the movie starts and ends. But how much of a difference will that make if the kids being served are no longer able to live near those centers? Read Full Article Are Homeowners Fueling the Housing Crisis? Randy Shaw, Tenderloin Housing Clinic Cities believe developers must contribute a public benefit in exchange for the right to build housing—which many see as a public good. In contrast, homeowners who prevent housing in their neighborhoods make huge profits by artificially restricting supply—and cities require them to provide no public benefits at all. There’s clearly a double standard at play here. Read Full Article Shelter Shorts: The Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff Climate Gentrification | HUD’s Work Requirements | A Marijuana Tax to Build Affordable Housing? | Homeownership Alone Can’t Close the Wealth Gap | Illegal ICE Raids on Farms | Keeping An Eye on Opportunity Zones | More... Read Full Article New Program Aims to Help Community Land Trusts Get to Scale Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce A new program invests in the belief that community land trusts can become more than a boutique housing solution. Read Full Article Events National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) | Our Homes, Our Voices National Housing Week of Action is happening all week this week and leads up to NLIHC's National Call-In Day and the Twitterstorm on May 7 and 8. Local events have already begun, so click here to find an event happening near you and/or to announce an event your organization is coordinating. Wednesday, May 16, 2 p.m. EDT | Preserving Affordable Homeownership Opportunities: Part I | Communities across the country are trying to create policies that do more with less, balance individual benefits with community benefits, and make a dent in their local affordable housing needs. Join UHAB and Grounded Solutions Network for this webinar to discuss making the case for permanently affordable homeownership and share how you can adopt and customize these models to fit your community’s needs. Grounded Solutions Network's 2018 E-Learning Series is presented in partnership with Citi Community Development. Thursday, May 17, 2 p.m. EDT | Cross Sector Collaborations: The Power of Partnership in Driving Community Change | Webinar participants will learn about the Strong, Prosperous, And Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC), a three-year, $90 million initiative to amplify locally driven efforts to ensure that major new infrastructure investments lead to equitable, healthy opportunities for everyone. The webinar will feature SPARCC’s national team members focused on data, research, capital, and communications—Enterprise, Low Income Investment Fund, and the Federal Reserve—and will include a deep dive on SPARCC’s work in Atlanta. Webinar presented by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... Industry News Mission Housing Development Has Promoted Márcia Contreras to the Position of Deputy Executive Director | Contreras joined Mission Housing in 2009, serving in various departments before taking on a dual role in 2015 as director of operations and resident services. Executive director Sam Moss credits Contreras with growing the Mission Housing team from eight people to 25, expanding their supportive services partnerships to include numerous human services agencies, and re-connecting Mission Housing to grassroots community organizations throughout the Mission District and San Francisco in general. She will serve as Mission Housing’s acting executive director when Moss is unavailable. Mission Housing Development Has Promoted Michael Chao to the Position of Director of Housing Development | Chao has served as senior project developer at Mission Housing since 2014, having added more than 1,000 units of new 100 percent affordable housing to their portfolio. Executive director Sam Moss credits Chao with solidifying Mission Housing’s role as a leader in community-based affordable housing development. With Chao’s promotion, Mission Housing is investing in the continued growth of current staff into leadership positions. Prior to joining Mission Housing, Chao oversaw housing development at several local nonprofits, including at Community Housing Partnership from 2008 to 2014. Request for Comment The Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) has drafted “Principles for Building Healthy and Prosperous Communities.” The six principles are in the consultation draft, meant to start a conversation and get feedback from those who are working to bridge the community development and health fields. BHPN wants to hear from you about where they got it right, what you would add or change, and whether you would adopt the principles for your own organization. A revised and final set of principles is expected to be released in the fall. Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! You Said It! On The Power of Proximity: Making the Case for Living Where You Work Shelterforce is an excellent magazine/resource and has a pro-community perspective that deepens my thinking and broadens what I understand to be viable or possible. —Scott Stafford, via Twitter On Why Aren’t We Building Middle-Income Housing? One cannot ignore the fact that many of these poorer communities also still carry the burdens of racism from another era. These housing issues appear to be tied to longstanding and growing economic inequality that has been well documented, and I fear these problems will not be solved until... —Albert Zabin, more The lowest-cost way to create housing opportunities for low-income and working class households requires us to understand that “acquisition and development” is not synonymous with affordability. Government officials, development corporations (even non-profits), funders, lenders, syndicators, contractors, consultants, policy makers and resident-groups are too often… —Michael Rohrbeck, more Help support Shelterforce, the voice of community development! Subscribe to our quarterly print magazine. In Case You Missed It Remember Slavic Village? It's Back Ask Yourself: Who Do Anti-Rent Control Policies Serve? Dear Business School Professors: You’re Wrong, Rent Control Works HUD Secretary Ben Carson and His Perverse Actions on Fair Housing Homeownership Is a Ponzi Scheme. Time to Build New, Mixed-Income Public Housing Click here to post a job! Jobs Director of Supportive Housing Management ● The person in this role is responsible for overseeing Foundation Communities’ permanent supportive housing portfolio and accompanying services, and creating a collaborative environment for our blended team of property management and supportive services staff. Shared accountability for outcomes is... Read Full Listing Director of Real Estate Development ● Homestead Community Land Trust seeks an innovative real estate development professional to identify partnerships and opportunities for the development of homeownership properties, to conduct feasibility analyses of prioritized sites, to interpret and explain contracts to internal... Read Full Listing CDT Acquisitions Associate ● The Community Development Trust (CDT) seeks an individual to assist in managing the evaluation, acquisition, and, in some cases, rehabilitation of existing affordable housing properties throughout the U.S. The primary responsibility will be to quickly analyze and underwrite... Read Full Listing Real Estate Asset Manager ● The Asset Manager will assist with the management of the Community Development Trust’s growing debt and equity investment portfolios. Duties include monthly review of property operating statements, real estate valuations for debt and equity investments, active communication with... Read Full Listing Associate—Debt Originations ● The Associate for Debt Originations will support the Community Development Trust's production team in the origination of affordable multifamily housing loans from sourcing to closing by pre-screening application packages to determine program/investor/underwriting compliance, analyzing proposed... Read Full Listing Senior Communications Manager ● Capitol Hill Housing seeks a Senior Communications Manager to work across all departments and be the primary staff contact for projects with a significant communications or marketing element. The SCM works as part of the CHH Foundation and manages the Grant Writer and Associate of... Read Full Listing Executive Director ● Housing Initiatives is a nonprofit that serves homeless mentally ill individuals using the housing-first model. Our new ED will need experience in financial and human resources management and nonprofit fund development, and will oversee a staff of at least ten people, as well as management of over... Read Full Listing More Jobs Senior Project Manager ● Urban Edge Housing Advocacy Organizer ● National Low Income Housing Coalition Executive Director ● Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation Community Organizing Supervisor ● Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation  Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Associate Editor, Keli A. Tianga Publisher, Harold Simon Assistant Publisher, Terri L. Clegg Made possible by the generous support of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● Kresge Foundation ● NeighborWorks America ● Kaiser Permanente ● Bank of America Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● John D. and Catherine T. 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