Too Many Conferences Miss the Bus

In This Issue: A Pipeline for Vacant Building Rehab ● Prosperity Accounts: A Proposal to Bring Everyone Into the Financial Mainstream ● Too Many Conferences Miss the Bus ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events +

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 In This Issue: A Pipeline for Vacant Building Rehab ● Prosperity Accounts: A Proposal to Bring Everyone Into the Financial Mainstream ● Too Many Conferences Miss the Bus ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + Too Many Conferences Miss the Bus Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce In my eight years of attending at least half a dozen conferences a year, there’s one thing I have almost never seen… Read Full Article Making a Pipeline for Vacant Building Rehab Tamara E. Holmes, writer and editor Baltimore’s Vacants to Value program sparked revitalization block by block with a few key legal powers and partnerships. Read Full Article Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff The Country’s Political and Ideological Realignment | Taking Income Protections National | CVS Buys Aetna | Cities Can Learn From Nashville | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Prosperity Accounts: A Proposal to Bring Everyone Into the Financial Mainstream A Few Thousand Dollars, reviewed by Robert O. Zdenek, Public Health Institute If the asset-building field is ready to move from comfortable “incrementalism” to a bold and systemic policy change that can begin to address the growing economic inequality that is tearing our society apart, this book offers… Read Full Article Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Events TODAY! Tuesday, Dec. 4, 12 p.m. ET (Webcast) | SPARCC: Investment Without Displacement | This live event and webcast from the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC) brings together national and community leaders working at the forefront of tackling residential, economic, and cultural displacement. The day-long convening will explore the strategies that can help cities and regions around the country achieve equitable, inclusive growth informed by the voices, needs, and interests of those communities most threatened by growing displacement pressures. There will be a webcast of the morning plenaries. You Said It! On What the Fight for Universal Rent Control in New York Can Learn from Prop 10’s Defeat in California Profiteering [is] called price gouging when it’s gasoline, not called anything when it’s housing… —Yvonne Farrell, via Twitter On our coverage of the social determinants of health Just wanted to say in case I haven’t already that Shelterforce has been doing an *amazing* job on the connections between health equity and community development! —John Duda, Democracy Collaborative, via email Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! In Case You Missed It Eviction Lab Misses the Mark The Two Vacancy Crises in America’s Cities States' Big Role in the Fight Against Vacancy What NYC’s Rent Control Fight Can Learn From California What We Know About Market-Rate Housing Development and Displacement Click here to post a job! Jobs Manager, Community Reinvestment Act—Federal Reserve Board of Governors ● The successful candidate will manage the division’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) team responsible for developing thoughtful CRA policy proposals for Board senior leadership and policy makers. Utilizing ideas that are informed by research/data and consultation with internal and external stakeholders, this… Read Full Listing Equitable Development Policy Analyst ● InterIm CDA is seeking an individual to lead the organization’s policy, planning, and advocacy efforts to address displacement and housing issues impacting low-income, Asian and Pacific Islander, immigrant, and refugee communities in Seattle’s International District and beyond. This person will bring technical expertise in planning, policy, housing, and… Read Full Listing Director, National LGBT Elder Housing Initiative ● The person in this role will create, strategize, execute, and monitor SAGE’s National LGBT Elder Housing Initiative; deepen SAGE’s relationships with existing housing partners; provide technical assistance to those across the country that are seeking to build/develop their own LGBT-friendly elder housing; and… Read Full Listing More Jobs Executive Director ● South Florida Community Development Coalition Director of Real Estate Development ● Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation Project Manager ● Urban Edge Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Senior Editor/Development Manager, Keli A. Tianga Assistant Editor, Elizabeth Oguss 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. Shelterforce began in 1975 and is the oldest, national, independent, nonprofit community development publication in America. Whether you provide or support affordable housing, economic or workforce development, community organizing, arts and culture, community planning, health, or transportation, Shelterforce will help you do your work better tomorrow than yesterday.