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Housing Advocates Design a Better Homecoming for People Leaving Incarceration

September 4, 2024 | Frances Nguyen

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?

August 27, 2024 | Shelby R. King

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

September 5, 2024 | Gregory D. Squires

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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Dual Crises: Housing in a Changing Climate

Americans are struggling more than ever to find and maintain housing they can afford. The climate crisis is only making things worse. In this series, Shelterforce takes a deeper look at the intersection of housing and climate change, and the threat a changing climate poses to the nation’s stock of affordable housing. What are some of the possible solutions and challenges to confront that threat?
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Shelter and the Storm: Housing and Climate Change are Intertwined

July 24, 2024 | Lara Heard

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Beating Extreme Heat as a Community

July 30, 2024 | Jill Webb

U.S. cities don't provide residents with enough protection against heat, the deadliest weather-related killer in the world. But in NYC, one organization came together to distribute ACs to neighbors in need.

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There's no one way to determine what makes "green" housing. Here's a breakdown of the standards and considerations used by the affordable housing industry.
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Retreating From the Coasts Makes Sense, But Our Current Approach Isn’t Working

August 6, 2024 | Tim Robustelli and Yuliya Panfil

As flooding, sea level rise, fires, and other climate impacts increase, we'll need to move about 20 million Americans by 2100. Here's how we can rethink managed retreat to get ahead of the rising tides.

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We’re Approaching Social Housing Wrong

September 10, 2024 | Kristen Hackett

Components common to most U.S. social housing proposals are bound to replicate problems we already have.

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Standing Up for Small CDCs

August 28, 2024 | Bill Taft

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.

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What’s Happening with the Billions in Climate Funding for Low-Income Communities?

August 23, 2024 | Lara Heard

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?

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Redlining Maps Didn’t Affect Neighborhoods the Way You Think They Did

August 21, 2024 | Alan Mallach

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation maps have long been blamed for racial inequities in today’s Black neighborhoods, but recent research shows that’s misleading.

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In Houston, ‘Climate Ambassadors’ Represent Their Own Neighborhoods

August 20, 2024 | Lara Heard

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.

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How Quito’s Climate Relocation Plan Left 44 Families in Jeopardy

August 16, 2024 | Robinson Markus

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.

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