Shelter Shorts

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation plans to invest $25 million over the next five years in research into the causes, effects and solutions to the nation’s affordable-housing […]

House Committee on Financial Services chair Barney Frank’s plan to include provisions for an Affordable Housing Fund in the House version of regulatory reform legislation governing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac […]

One Missouri school district has given new meaning to “no child left behind.” Discouraged by the number of homeless students in its district, and by the limited shelter options available […]

Testifying before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on the effects that predatory lending and exotic mortgages have on the rising rate of home foreclosures, Douglas G. Duncan, senior vice president […]

When it comes to covering affordable housing and homelessness crises that plague our country, the press has given it the good-old college try. Small-town papers like California’s Modesto Bee and […]

To secure the benefits of resident ownership for mobile-home park residents, it is important for states to enact laws giving residents the opportunity to buy their communities. A handful of […]

New Century Financial, the former subprime-lending giant that filed for bankruptcy in April 2007, won permission in May to pay 116 executives and top managers $3.2 million in bonuses. U.S. […]

Professional athletes have become synonymous with big cars and bling, not with random acts of kindness. But the Houston Texans’ Jason Simmons is not a stereotypical pro athlete. Simmons wore […]

It’s not easy to rattle Louise Arbour, the Canadian jurist who was the chief prosecutor for tribunals on the genocide in Rwanda and human-rights abuses in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. […]

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer in July signed into law authorization to create the nation’s first State Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) program. The as-yet unfunded program is designed to […]

Shelters and food pantries are lifelines for homeless people. But soon they may be out of reach. When in May the House passed the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act (HR […]

The Whittier Street Health Center, a 78-year-old clinic serving Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, rang in the new year by relocating to a new six-story, 78,900 square-foot, $37 million facility. The clinic […]