Blaming Redlining is Too Easy

In This Issue: Blaming Redlining is Too Easy ● Getting Beyond Appraisal Bias ● Are Tiny Homes A Piece of the Affordable Housing Puzzle? ● Also: Jobs, ICMYI+

Week of March 7 Are Tiny Homes A Piece of the Affordable Housing Puzzle? Meir Rinde, Shelterforce If you have the resources to quickly build affordable housing, then do it, "but leaving people out on the streets for years at a time while you’re trying to build affordable housing is cruel and inhumane."  Read Full Article The Racial Wealth Gap—Moving to Systemic Solutions Getting Beyond Appraisal Bias Dan Reed, Shelterforce Homes owned by people of color are appraised for less than identical homes owned by white families, leading to more than $150 billion in lost equity. How can we stop this? Read Full Article Blaming Redlining is Too Easy David Imbroscio, University of Louisville The answer to redlining has been to increase access to the housing market. But what if the problem is deeper than just racist policies? Read Full Article In Case You Missed It When the Unemployed Fought Back Credit Where Credit Is Due: Expanding Access to Capital for BIPOC Developers The Post-Protest Pledges: Banks’ Racial Equity Initiatives Events Thursday, March 10, 10 a.m. ET | +You: 3D-printed houses: New trend or lasting solution? | This panel, moderated by Shelterforce's Miriam Axel-Lute, will kick off a series on innovations in housing that will highlight cutting edge technologies and nonconventional methods aimed at addressing the global housing shortage of affordable housing. Read more in Shelterforce's recent series on Building Differently here. Register here. Thursday, March 10, 2 p.m. ET | Remaking the Economy: Redefining Risk | Investments to low-income communities and communities of color are often denied because they are deemed too risky. NPQ will host a webinar to discuss what risk means, who bears it, and how risk can be shifted to those who can afford it to build wealth in low-income communities and communities of color. Join Deborah Frieze of Boston Impact Initiative, Kate Khatib of Seed Commons, and Ojan Mobedshahi of East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. Register here. Tuesday, March 15, 2 p.m. ET | LIHTC & Racial Equity: Developing an Equity Scorecard of QAPs | The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation is in the process of developing a ‘QAP scorecard’ to strengthen standards within the nation’s largest affordable housing program—the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Join Miriam Zuk, of Ground Works Consulting, to learn more about the intersection of racial equity and LIHTC and provide input into the development of scoring criteria. Register here. Wednesday, March 23, 3 p.m. ET | Push Back on Racial Wealth Gap, Co-hosted by Shelterforce and NerdWallet | The racial wealth gap has been an intractable problem for decades—how do we move beyond what we’ve been trying to solutions that will help communities as well as individuals? Join authors from Shelterforce’s recent Racial Wealth Gap—Moving to Systemic Solutions series and other experts to explore questions like how to make a more just financial system, what role homeownership does or doesn’t play in addressing the racial wealth gap, and how to make homeownership a better wealth building tool. Register here. We only list free events and resources of national interest.  To learn about advertising, click here. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... Jobs Executive Director, Blaine County Housing Authority, Ketchum, ID ● Make a difference in affordable housing by serving as Executive Director of the Blaine County Housing Authority. You will manage current programs, undertake and evaluate the current functions and duties of the Authority, and propose initiatives to improve its services to the local community . . . Read Full Listing Associate Director of Real Estate, Urban Edge, Roxbury, MA ● Urban Edge seeks a skilled and mission-driven team member who is interested in supporting a growing team as the Associate Director of Real Estate. he Associate Director of Real Estate will play an essential role in supporting staff and in executing complex real estate projects. Reporting to the Director of Real Estate . . . Read Full Listing Community Loan Fund—Loan Officer, CASA of Oregon ● As a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), CASA operates a loan fund of approximately $20 million and generates a limited number of large real estate loans each year. The Community Loan Fund - Loan Officer is responsible for activities related to production, underwriting, processing . . . Read Full Listing Vice President of Innovative Finance, Grounded Solutions, Remote ● The Vice President of Innovative Finance will ensure that Grounded Solution’s primary audiences have the appropriate level of affordable housing finance knowledge and expertise needed to produce and preserve 1 million homes with lasting affordability over the next 10 years in a . . . Read Full Listing Director of Policy, Housing Assistance Council, Washington, D.C. ● The Director of Public Policy is a newly created position based in HAC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, reporting directly to the CEO and serving on HAC’s Executive Leadership Team. This individual will be expected to maintain HAC’s position as the leading authority on current rural housing . . . Read Full Listing Senior Project Manager–Transit-Oriented Development, Sound Transit, Seattle, WA● Guided by Sound Transit’s Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) policy and with a focus on affordable housing, Sound Transit’s TOD team is helping to realize community-supported development outcomes on excess public land near transit stops and stations. The Senior Project . . . Read Full Listing Deputy Director, National Affordable Housing Retrofit Initiative, ACEEE, Washington, D.C. or Remote USA ● ACEEE seeks a deputy director for a national project to scale up clean energy retrofits in the LMI housing market. Capacity-building will be aimed at states and localities to help ensure state, local, and federal resources are effectively deployed to accelerate LMI retrofits in ways that address climate . . . Read Full Listing Fiscal Director, Valley Community Development, Northampton, MA ● Valley Community Development Corporation (Valley) seeks an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced Fiscal Director. Valley is a community based nonprofit organization formed in 1988 and serving Hampshire and Franklin counties. Our mission is to empower underserved . . . Read Full Listing Technical Assistance Coordinator, National Affordable Housing Retrofit Initiative, ACEEE, Washington, D.C. or Remote USA ● The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a leading national research organization based in Washington, DC, seeks a technical assistance coordinator for a new initiative designed to scale up low- and moderate-income (LMI) building retrofits . . . Read Full Listing Community Development Research Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA ● This position is in the Philadelphia Fed’s Community Development and Regional Outreach Department, which works with low- and moderate-income communities to support the growth of an inclusive economy. Research analysts are responsible for performing quantitative and qualitative analyses, primarily . . . Read Full Listing More Jobs Community Engagement Manager, Seattle, WA ● Compass Housing Alliance Data Manager, NYC ● NYU Furman Center Staff Counsel for Housing, Chicago, IL ● BPI Director of Real Estate Development, Richmond, VA ● Southside Community Development Housing Corporation Vice President of Housing/Real Estate, Miami-Dade, FL ● OLCDC Senior Policy Associate, Washington, DC ● Rapoza Associates Program Coordinator at Supportive Shelter, Seattle, WA ● Compass Housing Alliance Analyst, Impact, Remote ● New Markets Support Company Director of Community Development, Petaluma, CA ● City of Petaluma 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. 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