It's Time to Connect Mental Health and Community Development

In This Issue: We Need State Law That Allows Multifamily Housing ● Greening Vacant Lots: Low Cost, Big Effect in Philly ● Mental Health and Community Development ● The Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events +

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 In This Issue: We Need State Law That Allows Multifamily Housing ● Greening Vacant Lots: Low Cost, Big Effect in Philly ● It's Time to Connect Mental Health and Community Development ● The Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles: A Review of City of Segregation ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + It's Time to Connect Mental Health and Community Development Laura Choi, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Over the past decade, the community development field has made great progress in bringing a health lens to its work, but the healthy communities movement has been less explicit about mental, emotional, and behavioral health. That needs to change. Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff Shutdown Stopgap | HUD Changes | Utah Says, "If its fixed, let's break it." | Public Housing and Health | Census 2020 News | Renter Protection | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... We Need State Law That Allows Multifamily Housing Kent R. Pipes, Affordable Homes Group This zoning law change would make the creation of thousands of affordable housing units possible without government funding … and may even be invisible to NIMBYs. Read Full Article Greening Vacant Lots: Low Cost, Big Effect in Philly Maggie Loesch, Photojournalist Block by block, a Philadelphia program is cleaning up abandoned lots, helping formerly incarcerated residents get jobs, and improving the overall health and well-being of neighborhoods. And research shows that the results are . . . Read Full Article The Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles: A Review of City of Segregation Reviewed by Jacob Woocher, Organizer Andrea Gibbons’s City of Segregation shows why empowering capitalist processes and actors is the last thing we should do to fight gentrification. Read Full Article Events Wednesday, Jan. 30, 10 a.m. PST | Development Without Displacement in Opportunity Zones | Presented by the Neighborhood Funders Group’s Democratizing Development Program, this webinar is the second in a series of conversations on Opportunity Zones. Hear how community, philanthropy, and the public sector can work together to prioritize investments in projects that yield equitable growth, benefits, development without displacement, and economic opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color. Info or register here. Monday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. EST | What Really Works in Homelessness Prevention: Lessons from Literature and the Field | Presented by Abt Associates’ Center on Evidence-based Solutions to Homelessness, this webinar will feature practitioners from three communities will discuss their experience planning or implementing prevention activities, and how the evidence aligns with their work on the ground. Info or register here. Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! You Said It! On Speaking Up On Race, Housing, and Opportunity in Minnesota After working in community development for the last 40 years I find your analysis of “moving to opportunity” to be exactly right. Equity in Place is also right. Providing resources directed by residents of the neighborhoods that have been affected by decades of discrimination is… — Tim Mungraven, more On Can Housers Unite Around the Warren Proposal? The challenge posed by a federal government approach is that without a consensus between the two political parties it is difficult to have a broad, consistent, long-term solution to our affordable housing needs. Control of the Congress and presidency revolve around a very small number of votes that… — Howard Hecht, more On A D.C. Neighborhood’s Transformation From “Chocolate” to “Cappuccino” Good question! Public housing is often knocked down in the name of integration. So if integration is not in fact achieved through knocking down public housing, policy makers should… —Sara D., more On Who Gets to Live Where, and Why? The Answer May Be Settled By Our Narratives The Fifth Amendment guarantees property owners due process before government can take their property, as well as just compensation upon taking their property. Those without property have only an insecure right to acquire property, which government can and often does infringe with impunity and without… —Frank Lessa, more In Case You Missed It Expanding Community Benefits Agreements to Events A Message for CFPB's Kathy Kraninger: Stand with People, Not Profits The Mission: End Childhood Lead Poisoning in Rochester Speaking Up On Race, Housing, and Opportunity in Minnesota Too Many Conferences Miss the Bus Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! Jobs External Relations Manager • The Center for NYC Neighborhoods seeks an individual who is driven to work for a mission-oriented organization and has the skills to expand our fundraising and income generation through the strategic use of impact storytelling, events, and other cultivation strategies. This is an exempt position that reports to… Read Full Listing Racial Equity & Inclusion Program Manager ● NPH is looking for an experienced individual dedicated to racial equity to move our work and programs forward in support of improving internal and member/sector-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Racial Equity & Inclusion Program Manager is responsible for developing, growing and ... Read Full Listing Policy Director ● NPH seeks a dynamic, innovative, collaborative, and team-oriented Policy Director to provide strategy, leadership and expertise in the Bay Area and statewide on affordable housing policy. The position provides key staff support to the organization in the areas of public policy development, strategic planning, legislative and…Read Full Listing Multifamily Housing Lender ● Seattle's Office of Housing works to build strong, healthy communities and increase opportunities for people of all income levels to live in our city. We are looking for a Multifamily Housing Lender to help the City decide which projects should or should not be funded. You will review and evaluate multifamily and bridge loan applications for policy and…Read Full Listing Grant Support Technician ● The City of Medford seeks a Grant Support Technician who performs a wide variety of professional and administrative services related to grant administration and departmental programs and activities. This position reports to the Housing and Community Development Principal Planner and. . .Read Full Listing Click here to post a job! 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