Housing Advocates Design a Better Homecoming for People Leaving Incarceration
Programs that offer reentry housing for formerly incarcerated people often replicate jail or prison settings. How can housing providers do better?
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Housing Equity in Limbo—Why Hasn’t Biden Finalized an Update to AFFH?
Last year it seemed like a new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule was imminent, but it never happened. And now it’s late enough in the term that if it were finalized, next year’s Congress could invalidate it.
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Insurance Redlining Is Back—But We Can Fight It
For decades, insurance regulators have resisted requiring the kind of disclosures that are now routine around mortgage lending. But that might change.
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Standing Up for Small CDCs
Neighborhood-scale community development organizations have community connections and trust that can’t be replicated by larger organizations, and they should be valued as the foundation of the field.
What’s Happening with the Billions in Climate Funding for Low-Income Communities?
Shelterforce breaks down the latest information on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. How can the affordable housing industry take advantage of the funding opportunities, and why are some folks worried about the fund’s rollout?
Redlining Maps Didn’t Affect Neighborhoods the Way You Think They Did
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation maps have long been blamed for racial inequities in today’s Black neighborhoods, but recent research shows that’s misleading.
In Houston, ‘Climate Ambassadors’ Represent Their Own Neighborhoods
CEER recruits residents to gauge their communities’ climate needs and to act as climate educators. Shelterforce asked Rita Robles and Carmen Cavezza about the program, how it works, and future plans.
How Quito’s Climate Relocation Plan Left 44 Families in Jeopardy
Thirteen years ago, an ambitious government initiative set out to move hundreds of families away from perilous conditions, including landslides, in Ecuador’s capital. Today, 37 of those households are still waiting for the subsidies they need to become true owners of their new homes.
Will This Resident Group Get Full Control of the Complex They Helped Fix?
For decades, a group of Cambodian refugees worked to improve and upgrade their Stockton, California, affordable housing complex. While they technically own half of the property, they’re still waiting for HUD to approve their full ownership. Why hasn’t it happened yet?
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State & Local Policy
How Policy Can Help Tenants Purchase Their Homes, a Webinar
Laws that give tenants the ability to purchase their own apartments are popping up across the country. In this webinar, a panel of folks who have been reporting on, fighting for, and using these policies offer their perspectives on this powerful anti-displacement tool.
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Community Development Field
Her Story, Her Power in Community Development: A Shelterforce Webinar
Five women from diverse backgrounds who span the country—Missouri, New Mexico, Hawaii, California, and Texas—got together with Shelterforce to talk about the community development field and their work in it.
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LIHTC
LIHTC: Are Little Changes Enough? A Shelterforce Webinar
There are reforms and expansions of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit afoot. But some in the field argue that we need to change the tax credit model of financing housing more deeply—or move away from it entirely. Join scholars and organizers as they discuss these issues and explore a path forward.
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Disability
Getting to More Accessible, Affordable, Inclusive Housing, a Shelterforce Webinar
Four disability advocates and experts explain what’s needed to house Americans with disabilities and some of the work that’s being done to get there.