High-Risk, Essential, and Illegally Evicted

In this Issue: Amplifying the Stories of the Formerly Incarcerated ● A Fair Chance at Housing for People with Records● High-Risk, Essential, and Illegally Evicted ● Expanding Housing Choice Vouchers Would Strengthen the Safety Net

Week of April 13 In this Issue: Amplifying the Stories of the Formerly Incarcerated ● A Fair Chance at Housing for People with Records ● High-Risk, Essential, and Illegally Evicted ● Expanding Housing Choice Vouchers Would Strengthen the Safety Net ● The Coronavirus Will Explode Achievement Gaps in Education ● Also: Jobs ● Industry News ● Resources ● Opportunities ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It + High-Risk, Essential, and Illegally Evicted Katy Reckdahl, Shelterforce Eviction moratoriums are only as good as their enforcement, as one man’s harrowing story in New Orleans shows. Read Full Article It’s Time to Mend the Housing Safety Net Jill Khadduri, Abt Associates Expanding the Housing Choice Voucher program will help to reinforce a weak social safety net that is only weakening amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Read Full Article COVID-19 Will Explode Achievement Gaps in Education Richard Rothstein, Economic Policy Institute The achievement gap between low-income and other children is already equivalent to at least two years of schooling. Might the shutdown expand that by another half year? Read Full Article Amplifying the Stories of the Formerly Incarcerated A selection of art that highlights the effects of long-term sentencing and the need to support and expand services for those who are reentering society. Read Full Article A Fair Chance at Housing for People with Records Gianna Baker and Kristin Ginger, Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance and Housing Action Illinois If you have an arrest or conviction record, you’ll most likely have a difficult time finding a place to rent. A new law in Cook County aims to protect potential tenants from housing discrimination. Read Full Article Help Shelterforce bring you the stories you need now! Supporting us is simple and fast. You can do it on Patreon! In Case You Missed It Housers: Now Is the Time to Buy Land Help for Small Businesses (Which Includes Nonprofits) Rent Control Promotes Racial Equity Using Inmate Labor to Build Affordable Housing Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... Industry News Brett Oumedian has been appointed chief financial officer of Cinnaire effective April 7, 2020. He will succeed Christopher Cox, who announced his retirement in January. Oumedian previously served as Cinnaire’s controller. Opportunities #AfterThis is an online festival of ideas and art launched by NCRC and Just Economy Club to imagine how we recover and how the world works #afterthis. It is a celebration of creativity, ideas and insights from anyone, anywhere. Learn more here. Resources Leading Groups Online has published a free e-book on leading online courses, meetings, trainings, and events during the coronavirus pandemic. A group of people have come together to create a Google document for tips on hosting trauma-informed Zoom calls. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief's growing directory of mutual aid pandemic disaster care.  Database of Localized Resources During COVID 19 Outbreak. Regional Housing Legal Services has released a map that shows the locations of eviction moratoriums and, importantly, how strong they are, as measured by the criteria in Shelterforce’s article “What an Effective Eviction Moratorium Must Include.” You Said It On “Housers: Now Is the Time to Buy Land” Jeff Levin: Excellent piece and something many of us have been discussing – finding opportunity in crisis. But on the question of whether or not to buy rent controlled properties, I think it’s more nuanced. Here in California, as you know, we have vacancy decontrol, which means that while current tenants are protected, the units themselves will . . . Read More On “How Rent Control Promotes Racial Equity” Mitch Kahn: Glad to report that the mayor and council of Montclair, N.J. passed the town's first rent control ordinance. This has been a decades long battle and the tenants have finally prevailed. Since the year 2000 . . . Read More Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Jobs Senior Project Manager, Somerville, MA ● Sommerville Community Corporation Finance Manager, Somerville, MA ● Somerville Community Corporation Policy Director, Washington, D.C., ● National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development Director of Impact and Evaluation, Tukwila, WA ● King County Housing Authority Click here to post a job! Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Senior Editor, Keli A. Tianga Assistant Editor, Elizabeth Oguss Operations Associate, Sam Fields Publisher, Harold Simon Made possible by the generous support of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● Kresge Foundation ● NeighborWorks America ● Kaiser Permanente ● Bank of America Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● PNC Bank Foundation● BB&T ● Valley National Bank ... and with the support of readers like you.