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In This Issue: Shifting the Affordable Housing Narrative Through Arts and Culture ● Living in a Bubble: Development When Community Doesn't Matter ● Maurice Jones on Job Creation, Community Development, and Wealth Building ● Also: Jobs ● ICYMI+

Week of Feb. 7 Maurice Jones on Job Creation, Community Development, and Wealth Building Interview by Amanda Abrams, Shelterforce Former LISC CEO Maurice Jones says the fact that so many well-paying jobs require a four-year degree is “having a huge, huge adverse impact on Black talent earning their way into the middle class.” Read Full Article Living in a Bubble: Development When Community Doesn’t Matter Gail Schechter, H.O.M.E. How suburban luxury high-rises are lowering everyone’s quality of life. Read Full Article Shifting the Affordable Housing Narrative Through Arts and Culture Brandon Duong, Shelterforce Housing activists want to use this political moment to shift long-standing narratives surrounding housing. From film to theater, here are some arts strategies that might work. Read Full Article In Case You Missed It Lessons from Award-Winning Hospital-Community Partnerships Generous Philanthropist or Rapacious Developer? Pandemic Housing Market Is Not Like the Great Recession’s Industry News Home Forward has selected its next executive director, Ivory Mathews. She most recently served as the chief executive officer at Columbia Housing. Mathews will succeed Michael Buonocore, who announced his resignation in September 2021. Events Feb. 8, 6:30 p.m. ET | John T. Dunlop Lecture: The Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, “Building the World We Want to See: What Do We Want Our Legacy to Be?” | Join The Joint Center for Housing Studies’ annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, honoring a distinguished member of the Harvard community in recognizing the contributions of Professor John T. Dunlop. Join here. We only list free events and resources of national interest.  To learn about advertising, click here. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... You Said It On “So Your State Outlawed Inclusionary Zoning. Now What?” Tim McCormick: for a new model of #InclusionaryHousing, we could join Wegmann's proposal for tax-increment revenue generation, '#SyntheticIZ', with the #FundedInclusionary approach below, & buy/lease social/affordable homes within private developments, as often done in France. Via Twitter On “Minor Defendants: Kids Are Being Named in Evictions” Liferuiner103: Outrageous! I had no idea. Via Twitter On “Understanding Community Land Trusts” Stephen Valder: Great overview. Want to know what is happening in Charlotte check @WestSide_CLT the Charlotte community land trust. Via Twitter On “Jerome Rappaport: Generous Philanthropist or Rapacious Developer?” Marcus Weiss: Brilliant piece, Peter. Evocative of my own neighborhood’s demolition of comparable acres in Atlantic City during the Urban ( “removal”) Renewal years. Read More Jobs Director of Asset Management, Imagine Housing, Kirkland, Washington ● The Director of Asset Management is responsible for the overall ownership, operations, and management of the real estate portfolio ensuring the financial and physical conditions of the properties meet industry standards and serve the organization’s mission. Responsible for assessing . . . Read Full Listing Policy and Research Analyst, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, Washington, D.C. ● CLPHA is seeking a dynamic and experienced Policy and Research Analyst. Under the general direction of the Director of Policy and Research, this position is responsible for conducting research, analyzing and projecting the impact of proposed federal, state and other laws, rules, and regulations . . . Read Full Listing Corporations and Foundations Development Officer, La Casa de Don Pedro, Inc., Newark, NJ ● La Casa de Don Pedro seeks an experienced and passionate Corporations and Foundations Development Officer [CFDO] to help strengthen its resource development capacity and impact in order to carry out La Casa’s mission to foster self-sufficiency, empowerment, and neighborhood . . . Read Full Listing Manager - Market-Based Affordable Housing Team, Office of Housing, Seattle, WA or Philadelphia, PA Preferred ● We are looking for a Senior Capital Investments Officer to help the City invest in the development and preservation of affordable multifamily rental housing. You will participate in all aspects of the financing process, from underwriting through closing and construction draws. Project assignments will . . . Read Full Listing Senior Capital Investments Officer, Office of Housing, Seattle, WA ● We are looking for a Senior Capital Investments Officer to help the City invest in the development and preservation of affordable multifamily rental housing. You will participate in all aspects of the financing process, from underwriting through closing and construction draws. Project assignments will . . . Read Full Listing Homeownership Specialist, Office of Housing, Seattle, WA ● Our Homeownership Division is looking for a Homeownership Specialist who will work to advance and strengthen programs and policies that serve low- and moderate-income homebuyers and homeowners. Reporting to the Strategic Advisor for Homeownership, . . . Read Full Listing CEO, Downstreet Housing & Community Development, Barre, VT ● Downstreet Housing & Community Development is seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to guide this respected regional housing organization. Downstreet is Central Vermont’s premier housing advocacy organization, with a primary focus on affordable housing, homebuyer education and assistance as well . . . Read Full Listing Executive Director, The Fund for Public Housing, New York, NY ● The Fund for Public Housing seeks an individual with extraordinary leadership and communications skills to be its next Executive Director. The Executive Director will lead the implementation of the refreshed strategy and be responsible for the creation of new strategic plans, fundraising, communications . . . Read Full Listing CEO, Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation, Boston, MA ● The CEO will have the opportunity to lead a prominent, long-standing, well-respected, sizable, and innovative economic development corporation which has had tremendous impact on its Dorchester community and the City of Boston since 1979. Situated in vibrant Uphams Corner . . . Read Full Listing Executive Director, Affordable Housing Education and Development, Inc., Littleton, NH ● The Board of Directors of the Affordable Housing Education and Development Inc. (AHEAD) seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and seasoned executive to lead the organization into the next decade. The next Executive Director will manage a $2.3 million dollar budget, $66 million dollars in assets and 514-unit housing portfolio of . . . Read Full Listing Chief Executive Officer, LeadingAge Oregon, Tigard, OR ● LeadingAge Oregon (LAOR) is the statewide association of not-for-profit and other mission-directed organizations dedicated to advancing quality aging services in Oregon through advocacy, education, and partnership. Together with our national partner, LeadingAge, we advance policies, promote practices and . . . Read Full Listing Audience Growth & Engagement Specialist, Shelterforce, Remote ● The driving goal of Shelterforce’s audience growth and engagement specialist will be to expand our readership, our presence online, and our content uptake/backlinks with national and local media. You will have the pleasure of working in partnership with the publisher and . . . Read Full Listing More Jobs Program Officer – Arts and Culture, Troy, MI ● The Kresge Foundation Executive Director, Arlington, MA ● Housing Corporation of Arlington NYU Furman Center Housing Solutions Lab Data Analyst, New York City ● NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy Chairperson - Construction Management Department, Brooklyn, NY ● Pratt Institute Director, Democratizing Development Program, Remote, CA ● Neighborhood Funders Group 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 Investigative Reporter, Shelby R. King Assistant Editor, Elizabeth Sheedy Operations Manager, Sam Fields Made possible by the generous support of ● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● The Kresge Foundation ● Oak Foundation ● Wells Fargo and ● The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● Kaiser Permanente ● NeighborWorks America ● PNC Bank Foundation   ● Valley National Bank ● Ford Foundation ... 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.