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Short news items from the Shelter Shorts column in print, or gathered in a weekly news round up online.
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The Week in Community Development—Aug. 9
Los Angeles Reaches Historic Settlement with HUD | Austin's Innovative Affordable Housing Strategy | Report Finds NYC Arts Orgs Need More Diversity | Another HUD Fight on the Horizon | What We're Reading | More...
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The Week in Community Development—May 3
Boulder expands equity and its hiring pool, Is help for “three-quarter” housing a problem?, Public housing’s impact on diversity, Where the rural populations are growing, Poverty’s effect on mental well-being, more…
The Week in Community Development—April 26
Gentrification tales, Sexual health in rural places, Housing policy, Opportunity Zones update, Union strike, Hoarding resources, more.
The Week in Community Development—April 19
Making cities good places for children, A Black arts and culture district in Baltimore, A test for universal basic income, Nonprofit developers get a win, The politics of housing in California, more.
The Week in Community Development—April 12
Carson gets defensive, A bank by and for the people, Faith in numbers, Another big(ger) bank is on the horizon, Berliners rally for their housing, more.
The Week in Community Development—April 5
Homelessness is a national emergency, Doctors don’t quite get it, Gentrification doesn’t stand a chance, This hospital mandates paying a living wage, New HUD news, and more.
The Week in Community Development—March 29
Oregon to do away with single-family zoning, NY pushes source of income protection, mixed-income development in London segregates play, housing is on candidates minds, too, and more.
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.
The Week in Community Development—March 15
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: The coming funding cuts, A Ban on cashless, Kansas City fights for affordable housing, Banks divest from private prisons, Reality check for landlords, more.
The Week in Community Development—March 8
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: Criminalizing homelessness, Self-driving cars further inequality?, New ideas for public housing, Commercial CLTs, more.
The Week in Community Development—March 1
Green New Deal, Celebrities Build Affordable Homes-sometimes, Rent Control, School Funding and Race, Dollar Store Proliferation, more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Feb. 22
HUD changes Inspection Policy; Raising the Minimum Wage; Statewide Rent Control in Oregon; Airbnb’s Real Impact on Housing Costs; more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Feb. 15
Did Amazon meet its match?, Latinx homelessness, Broken Windows-clarified, Supporting victims of wage theft, One more big bank, more.