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Race Is Still More Important Than Place

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
In This Issue: Bold Political Leadership on Housing? In 2018? You Heard Right ● Solutions to an Unjust Housing System ● Race Is Still More Important Than Place ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events ● Industry News ● ICYMI +
Tom Angotti, Hunter College
We should have known better. The Kerner Commission taught us that race matters most, not place. But it also embedded in our psyches the equation of Black = central city and the similarly absolute equation of white = suburbs. But this simplistic dualism ignored the obvious fact that… Read Full Article
Shelterforce Staff
Whole Foods Employees Seek to Unionize | Your Job Won't Save You From Homelessness | Rent-to-Own May Equal Jail Time | More… Quick Takes From Our Editors
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Noel A. Poyo, National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders
Most politicians see housing as an issue with a lot of downside and not much upside. But that might be changing. Read Full Article
Anamika Jain and Malcolm Torrejón Chu, Right to the City Alliance
Four scalable land and housing models can provide justice, and homes, for our communities. But we need support to protect them from market pressure. Read Full Article
Industry News
Patricia L. Smith Joins the Funders’ Network as New President & CEO | Smith has previously served as senior policy advisor and director of special initiatives at the Reinvestment Fund, and as director of Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative. She also launched the Human Capital Development Initiative, a national leadership development and grantmaking program funded by Living Cities.
Events
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2 p.m. ET | “Connecting Leaders to Learning” Webinar Series: The Empty House Next Door | Presented by the Center for Community Progress and Bank of America Charitable Foundation, this webinar will draw from the recently-released The Empty House Next Door by Alan Mallach. The webinar features Mallach and will use data and visuals to explore trends in property vacancy in recent years—including where the challenge is worsening—with a focus on the growth in particularly distressed “hyper-vacant” areas.
You Said It!

Excellent analysis of housing programs. Fair housing is critical but the anti-discrimination measures aren’t working to fix… —Anne E Mannix, more

Powerful analysis, thank you. But would you say that the New Deal housing programs were also inadequate by themselves, since public housing developments tended to be… —Rose Phillips, more

Author Reply
I would. But racism wasn’t the only shortcoming of the 1937 Housing Act. … While organizations such as the National Association of Real Estate Boards succeeded in watering down the law, it was really the intransigence of… —Fred McGhee, more
While I understand advocating for affordable housing, I cannot advocate for this proposal. … I wish you guys would stand down and create a whole policy because this half way maneuver is gonna be ruinous. It is not based upon… —Burke Ericson, more

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