(ShelterForce) People are talking race & housing. Can we seize the moment?

In this Issue: ● Systemic Racism Starts and Ends with Housing ● This Moment Calls for Finally Making Homeownership Access Fair ● We Need a Rural New Deal ● Also: Jobs ● Resources ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It +

Week of July 20 In this Issue: ● Systemic Racism Starts and Ends with Housing ● This Moment Calls for Finally Making Homeownership Access Fair ● We Need a Rural New Deal ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It + If you upgrade to an all-access pass after registering via this link, Shelterforce receives a commission. This Moment Calls for Finally Making Homeownership Access Fair Doug Ryan, Prosperity Now As a rare national conversation about race and housing is underway, now is the time to implement the tools we already know work to advance homeownership. Read Full Article Systemic Racism Starts and Ends with Housing Gail Schechter, organizer All I could think of as I scanned a crowd of 4,000 mostly young, white, earnest faces was that to end the shame of systemic racism on Chicago’s North Shore, their next step should be to . . .  Read Full Article In Case You Missed It We Need a Rural New Deal Katie Parker, The Democracy Collaborative Just as the original New Deal was in large part designed to address the dire challenges rural America faced in the 1930s, today’s rural community economic development practitioners can learn from the Green New Deal, the policy framework that . . . Read Full Article Did Ithaca Really Cancel Rent? Did Extending More Credit to Subprime Borrowers Cause the Foreclosure Crisis? 6 Ways to Prevent Post-COVID Vacancy Response to Pandemic Shows What's Possible in Housing Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... Events Wednesday, July 29, 2 to 3 p.m. ET | Preventing Eviction During COVID​ | LISC's Family Income and Wealth Building will host a webinar with Noëlle Porter of the National Housing Law Project on navigating housing instability and preventing eviction as many of the protections under the CARES Act come to a close. Register here. We only list free events and resources of national interest.  To learn about advertising, click here. Help Shelterforce bring you the stories you need now! Supporting us is simple and fast. You can do it on Patreon! You Said It On “More Housing Could Increase Affordability—But Only If You Build It in the Right Places” Brandon Kovnat: Great article! It summarizes many of the points I have tried to articulate before. Economists by and large do not take geography into account. It has frustrated me to see discussions on how hard it is to build a house within a city that already had high-density while ignoring . . . Read More On “Using Inmate Labor to Build Affordable Housing” Rose Alexandra Phillips: . . . Between the pandemic and re-energized discussions about criminal justice reform, hopefully more states are questioning the length of sentences for drug offenses. If these inmate-labor affordable housing programs are going to be around for awhile, hopefully they’ll take some risks and provide opportunities to violent offenders who are within two or three years of release. Read More Jobs Executive Director ● Raise Texas, a 501(c) (3) statewide network of nonprofit organizations, for-profit corporations, and public institutions working to support and expand asset-building activities in Texas, seeks an executive director. Read Full Listing Chief Executive Officer/Publisher, Shelterforce, Montclair, NJ ● Shelterforce seeks a Chief Executive Officer/Publisher (CEO/Publisher) to advance its mission, grow its capacity, audience, and influence, and strategically and sustainably guide the organization through an evolving and dynamic media landscape. Read Full Listing Executive Director, The Community Fund of North Miami Dade, Inc., Miami-Dade, Florida ● The Community Fund of North Miami Dade, Inc., a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), a subsidiary of Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation (OLCDC), is seeking an Executive Director to manage and provide overall leadership, strategy, and stewardship of its loan fund. Read Full Listing Rehab Project Manager and Sustainability Director, Northern California Land Trust, Berkeley, CA ● Northern California Land Trust seeks a Rehab Project Manager who will be a core team member of both the Property Management/ Stewardship team and the Project Development team and will lead the rehab and energy efficiency upgrades at NCLT’s portfolio of more than 20 projects. In addition . . . Read Full Listing Director of the National Land Bank Network, The Center for Community Progress, Washington, D.C. ● The Center for Community progress seeks a Director of the National Land Bank Network, who will serve as the engineer of a new, formalized, national platform for NLBN members to connect and share knowledge, develop innovative programs and policy reforms, and learn new skills through . . . Read Full Listing More Jobs Real Estate Developer, Asheville, NC ● Mountain Housing Opportunity, Inc. Program Manager (Federal), San Antonio, TX ● National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders Project Manager - Vallejo Community Land Trust Pilot, Berkeley and Vallejo, CA ● Northern California Land Trust Deputy Director, MD or D.C. ● St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center Click here to post a job! Editor and Publisher, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Associate Editor, Brandon Duong Assistant Editor, Elizabeth Oguss Operations Manager, Sam Fields Made possible by the generous support of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● The Kresge Foundation ● NeighborWorks America ● Kaiser Permanente ● Bank of America Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● PNC Bank Foundation● Truist Bank ● Valley National Bank ... and with the support of readers like you.