In Washington state, the dilemma for advocates is how to ask city and county elected officials to significantly increase public resources for housing when their only current choices are regressive tax tools.
Single-Family Subsidies Are Needed Outside Hot Markets
There isn’t a tax credit program available to spur investment in single-family residential neighborhoods, but an alliance of national real estate, housing, community development, lending, and construction organizations is working to change that.
Why We Must First Be Well Before We Can Do the...
An Alaskan collective's perspective on taking care of oneself can apply to organizations that work with communities that have experienced trauma. After all, organizations should make the mental and physical health of their staff a top priority, too.
A Tale of Two Murals in Albany
Having had the experience of public art with no public involvement, a community organization set out to show there could be another way.
Q: Does Airbnb Cause Rents to Increase?
A: Yes! Since hosts can make 50 to 200 percent more on short-term rentals than on long-term rentals, Airbnb affects purchase prices as well.
Facing Down Segregation—Half-heartedly or With Steely Determination?
A new book explores the history, impact, and policy solutions to racial segregation.
Fearing Privatization: Public Housing Activists Push Back Against RAD Plans
As their city rapidly gentrifies, a group of residents say the Minneapolis housing authority could address its capital needs backlog with a property tax levy instead of opting for RAD and Section 18 conversions.
Tiny House Villages in Seattle: An Efficient Response to Our Homelessness Crisis
Over the past three years, Seattle has led the country in piloting tiny house villages as a response to the homelessness crisis. Here's how they're doing it, and the lessons they're learning.
The Paradox of Prevailing Wage
The complicated relationship between the Davis-Bacon Act, Black construction workers, and Black-owned construction businesses in Boston.
Entrepreneurship as a Path to Health?
New partnerships between health funders and small-business lenders highlight another possible way to influence health.
Carson Lies Again as He Announces Plans to Leave HUD
HUD secretary Ben Carson told the right-leaning outlet Newsmax on Monday night that he intends to leave his cabinet post at the end of...
Ignore the Myth—Voters *Do* Rally for Housing
When it comes to whether voters support building more housing as one key strategy for expanding affordability, election outcomes show the case is closed.
Can Estate Planning be Used to Help Preserve Economic Assets in Low-Income Communities?
Estate planning should be employed as part of a broader plan of preservation of wealth and assets in communities of color.
Community Land Trusts in the Age of Climate Change
With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.
Putting Health Care Dollars to Work
Several key organizations are working to take health care institutions’ funding for social determinants of health to a new level.
After Redlining: Part 2
Headrights and redlining were parts of a systemic structure designed to aid some and debilitate others. Their repercussions are still felt.
Shelter Shorts
The Week in Community Development—March 22
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: An aging homeless population, SB50 protections, Livable city ranking ranks affordability (!), Chronic homelessness, Holding two truths, more.