The Jobs-Housing Hamster Wheel

In This Issue: HUD's RAD Program—The Promise and Peril ● What Future for America's Small Cities? ● The Jobs-Housing Hamster Wheel ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events ● You Said It! +

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 In This Issue: HUD's RAD Program—The Promise and Peril ● What Future for America’s Small Cities? ● The Jobs-Housing Hamster Wheel ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events ● You Said It! + In Memoriam: Jeremy Nowak Jeremy Nowak, a founder of The Reinvestment Fund and founding board member of the Opportunity Finance Network, passed away on July 28. Nowak's insights and challenges will be missed in the field. He wrote for Shelterforce about expanding our view of community to include entire regions, focusing on “people” not just places, and considering mixed-income housing and locating housing in areas of opportunity long before they were called that. Read More... The Jobs-Housing Hamster Wheel Rick Rybeck, Just Economics LLC A deeper dive into the cause of high housing prices reveals that it is not the price of lumber, bricks, or labor that accounts for high or low housing prices—the controlling factor most often is the price of land. Some analysts have documented that the 2008 recession, typically reported as the collapse of a “housing bubble,” is more accurately described as the collapse of… Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff HUD's Latest Assault on Fair Housing | Decriminalizing Homelessness | "Buying the Block" | FEMA's Roadblocks In Puerto Rico | Public Transport And Health | More… Quick Takes From Our Editors Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... What Future for America’s Small Cities? Alan Mallach, Center for Community Progress While the story of the predatory lenders that victimized millions of homeowners and home buyers with subprime mortgages in the late 1990s and early 2000s is well known, far fewer people are aware of the similar practices that played a crucial part in the gutting of... Read Full Article The Promise and Peril of HUD’s RAD Program Shamus Roller and Jessica Cassella, National Housing Law Project HUD’s RAD program facilitates the privatization of public housing in order to preserve and repair aging infrastructure. But, as with privatization of any public asset, there will always be promises and perils on the path. Here are a few of them… Read Full Article Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Events TODAY! Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2 p.m. EDT | Building Healthy, Equitable Communities Through Comprehensive Long-Range Planning | This webinar from Changelab Solutions will look at building health and equity into long-range plans by discussing how place-based strategies are central to health equity, building a framework categorizing the elements of healthy places, and how to organize long-range plans using health equity concepts. TODAY! Tuesday, Aug. 21, 3 p.m. EDT | Voter Mobilization: Getting Out the Vote! | Our Homes, Our Votes presents this final webinar presentation in a 6-part series. Getting out the vote is no longer just about election day. Learn about the best ways to engage low-income renters in communities with early voting or vote-by-mail options. Presenters will also discuss considerations for providing rides to the polls and coordinating election day reminder calls. Thursday, Aug. 23, 12 p.m. EDT | Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties: Lessons Learned from the Field | Center for Community Progress presents this webinar to highlight key findings from the new report, Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties: Lessons Learned from Four Cities, which details challenges faced, lessons learned, and impacts of efforts to employ creative placemaking as a tool to revitalize vacant properties. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2 p.m. EDT | All In Webinar: Data Sharing Across Sectors—Challenges and Opportunities | While the importance of data in our collective efforts to improve community health is widely agreed upon, the way in which we leverage and apply data is not. The newest report from the BUILD Health Challenge features the five most common data challenges faced by cross-sector teams participating in BUILD. In this webinar, learn about top takeaways from the report and hear what strategies teams use in the face of real-world challenges. Looking for a Job? Keep scrolling... You Said It! On Loneliness Kills; Community Developers Can Help There’s more to loneliness than feeling blue. @Shelterforce shares how addressing loneliness is an important part of building healthy communities, —CountyHealthRankings, via Twitter On Tenant Power: Organizing for Rent Strikes and Landlord Negotiations Great story Lillian Ortiz @Shelterforce on low-income renters organizing to shift tide of #gentrification #displacement. Here's more rent data for various CA counties plus #affordablehousing #sustainability policy solutions. —Collin Tateishi, via Twitter On Taking Sexual Harassment Seriously: Tips for Nonprofits If the nonprofit housing sector were to take the potential for sexual harassment of residents by employees or contractors seriously, what might that look like? Thanks @Shelterforce for such a timely and important article. —Philadelphia Association of CDCs, via Twitter Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! In Case You Missed It Tenant Power Is Here!  How to Kill Land Speculation Homeless Vets Given Keys to a New Home and Life Loneliness Kills, But Community Developers Can Help Controlling Land Collectively: The CLT Ground Lease Reimagined Click here to post a job! Jobs Executive Director, Lexington Community Land Trust ● This individual will create strategic partnerships for LCLT’s inaugural neighborhood, which, at completion, will include over 100 permanently affordable homes, a mixed-use area, and more. The executive director will also develop scattered site infill homes and grow the organization toward sustainability… Read Full Listing Senior Multifamily Housing Lender, City of Seattle ● Seattle’s Office of Housing seeks an individual to help the City invest in the development and preservation of affordable multifamily rental housing. This person will participate in all aspects of project development and financing, including feasibility assessment, underwriting… Read Full Listing Senior Program Manager, Build Healthy Places Network ● This individual will help shape and deliver our projects and programs; provide leadership and technical assistance to community partners; shepherd research and analysis; and join leadership in planning for the future. Entrepreneurial spirit and background in community development strongly desired. Read Full Listing Project Manager/Affordable Housing Development ● Telesis seeks an experienced project manager to join our D.C. office and to oversee projects in D.C and across the country, managing all aspects of the development cycle from acquisition through completion. Most of our projects are complex, large-scale redevelopments with multiple financing sources. Our portfolio includes... Read Full Listing Senior Research Associate ● Local Initiatives Support Corporation seeks a senior research associate to join a small, multidisciplinary team whose objectives are to rigorously assess our impact and those of our partners, support through research new innovative tools to advance LISC’s mission, and support the... Read Full Listing Executive Director, Northcountry Cooperative Foundation ● This individual will manage all aspects of our operations and provide leadership toward our strategic goals: supporting the creation of more (and better) cooperatives, being a key source of information about cooperatives and a center for the practice of creative innovation in the sector... Read Full Listing Director of Communications ● Grounded Solutions Network seeks a dynamic individual to join our senior leadership team. Your communication strategies will drive support for our financial sustainability strategy, deepen programmatic impact, and elevate our position as a national leader in long-term affordable housing… Read Full Listing More Jobs Project Manager/Affordable Housing Real Estate Development ● DHIC—Raleigh, NC Vice-President for Development and Communications ● Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED) Executive Director ● Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation Research Assistant ● Lisa Sturtevant and Associates Executive Director ● Houston Community Land Trust Lending Manager ● United Housing Inc. Senior Planner (Housing) ● City of Palo Alto Managing Director, Housing & Homelessness ● Trinity Wall Street Program Coordinator ● Neighborhood Funders Group Community Organizer ● NewVue Communities, Fitchburg, Massachusetts 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. MacArthur Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● PNC Bank Foundation ● Hyde and Watson Foundation ● Ocwen Financial Corporation ● Valley National Bank ...and with the support of readers like you.