Miriam Axel-Lute
Miriam Axel-Lute is associate director of the National Housing Institute. She has returned to NHI/Shelterforce, where she began her career in the late 1990s, after overlapping stints as a journalist, newspaper editor, freelance editor, parenting blogger, urban planning student, and community development consultant. Based in Albany, N.Y., she is also a parent, poet, award-winning columnist, and not-so-award-winning gardener.
ARTICLES IN SHELTERFORCE since jan 08
- Disappearing Act
Facing financial difficulties as new technology takes customers away, the United States Postal Service reviewed 3,300 branches to find those that could be deemed disposable. In low-income communities, just how disposable are the final 162?
POSTS ON ROOFLINES
- Jun 18 · Banks Cleaning up Their Mess to Count as CRA Credit?
- Jun 1 · Housing Markets that Will Never Recover?
- Oct 28 · Habitat Gets Into Marin
- Oct 23 · It’s Bankers Versus Realtors in Arizona: What About Communities?
- Oct 19 · What Makes People Love a City?
- Oct 2 · Bring Back Rent Control?
- Sep 19 · Community Developer Wins Contentious Primary for NYC Council Seat
- Aug 21 · Don’t Like 40B? Plan for Affordable Housing
- Aug 5 · Subprime and the Myth of Increasing Homeownership
- Aug 1 · Prove You Own My Loan
- Jul 24 · Because we needed more fraud and foreclosure…
- Jul 21 · Renting From the Bank?
- Aug 30 · Journey to Work: What About Bikes?
- Aug 7 · Keeping Houses Occupied
- Jul 29 · Buffaloonly Problems
- Jul 25 · Small Cities: Stepchildren No Longer
- Jul 18 · “No Pain,” But Lots of Spin
- Jul 1 · Memphis’s Unwelcome News
- Jun 26 · Good News—New York State Style
- Jun 19 · Injury to Injury
- Jun 19 · The Limits of Federalism
- Jun 12 · Massachusetts is watching
- Jun 4 · Free Transit?
- May 30 · Diverse Workplaces Work, Why Not Neighborhoods?
- May 22 · Collective Efficacy—Who’s in the Collective?
- May 21 · Divided We Subsidize Agribusiness
- May 15 · Preparing for Peak Oil: Nutty Survivalism or Crucial Equity Issue?

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