(ShelterForce) Losing Nonprofit Control of Tax Credit Housing?

In This Issue: Perspectives on the Community Land Trust ● Affordable Housing Providers Fear the Worst Pandemic Impacts Are Yet to Come ● Refusing the Right of First Refusal ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It +

Week of Oct. 19 In This Issue: Perspectives on the Community Land Trust ● Affordable Housing Providers Fear the Worst Pandemic Impacts Are Yet to Come ● Refusing the Right of First Refusal ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It + Losing Nonprofit Control of Tax Credit Housing? Brandon Duong, Shelterforce This tax credit loophole is enabling predatory groups to gobble up nonprofits' developments. Read Full Article Affordable Housing Providers Have Done Better Than Expected So Far in the Pandemic Josh Cohen, Shelterforce Can it last? Read Full Article International Variations on the Community Land Trust Interview by James Tracy, Community Housing Partnership The editors of On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust discuss the way community land trusts have been adapted across Europe and Latin America and what we can learn from what they’ve done. Read Full Article Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... In Case You Missed It Loneliness Kills; Community Developers Can Help Regrets of an Accidental Placemaker 11 Is Better Than 1: How Scaled Affordable Housing Asset Management Helps in the Time of COVID Valuing Black Lives and Black Cities NJ Tenant Organizing—Looking Back at the Film Techos y Derechos These articles are free to read, but not free to write. Supporting us is simple and fast. You can do it on Patreon! Events Monday, Oct. 26, 4 p.m. ET | Safer Communities through Racial Justice: Coordinated Virtual Action | Join the Prevention Institute to take action in support of local and national campaigns that are creating community safety by advocating for divestment from mass punishment, detainment, and incarceration and investment in thriving communities and racial justice. Register here. Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 11 a.m. ET | Leveraging Black Led Financial Institutions to Tackle the Racial Wealth Gap | Join LISC for a roundtable discussion of investing in Black financial institutions to help close racial wealth gaps and create economic opportunity in Black communities in the US. Register here. Through Oct. 31 | Home Truths: Films about Housing Rights, Displacement, and the Meaning of Home | This online film series, presented in association with Shelterforce, highlights a variety of films that have dramatized the plight of those who wage a daily battle for safe and secure housing, that have unveiled the structural and economic forces that render that struggle so difficult, and that have chronicled the efforts of activists to make change. Learn more here. We only list free events and resources of national interest.  To learn about advertising, click here. You Said It On “Three Local Policy Innovations that Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities” Fernando Centeno: Unless and until policy changes and strategies are examined for their impacts & outcomes—which doesn’t happen—the status quo prevails. Policymaking is poorly understood, practiced, measured, examined, or accounted for, by all public officials, at all levels of government. Read More On “The Paradox of Prevailing Wage” Bill: Yes there should be training, however the easy fix for any contractor is to become signatory with the local unions. Contractors big and small will cheat and pay as little as possible if possible. They should do the right thing and pay a living well deserved rate of pay, health care, and pension to construction workers. These men and women give up their bodies for the work and should be compensated accordingly. Read More Jobs Initial Executive Director, California Community Land Trust Network, Berkeley, CA ● The California Community Land Trust Network seeks an initial Executive Director to support the organization in its transition from a member and volunteer board-led organization to a fully staffed one while maintaining the collaborative member relationships and member-centric structure. Read Full Listing Manager/Director of Media Relations & Communications, National Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, D.C. ● National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) seeks a manager/director of media relations and communications to develop, implement, and manage media and public relations strategies to advance NLIHC’s mission of achieving socially just public policy to ensure . . . Read Full Listing President, Berkshire Housing, Pittsfield, MA ● Berkshire Housing seeks a President to help further the organization’s vision to improve the quality of life for residents of Berkshire County by increasing affordable housing opportunities, delivering community development programs and projects, and operating a professional management company. Read Full Listing More Jobs Vice President – Community Development and Policy Studies, Chicago, IL ● Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Click here to post a job! CEO/Publisher, Schlonn Hawkins CEO/Editor-in-Chief, 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 ● Oak Foundation ● Wells Fargo and  Bank of America Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● Kaiser Permanente ● NeighborWorks America ● PNC Bank Foundation● Truist Bank  ● Valley National Bank ... and with the support of readers like you.