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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
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Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Nov. 2
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: rent burden relief, policy suggestions for worker co-ops, a new credit scoring model?, states take on housing, and more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Oct. 26
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: multi-unit housing, commercial rent control, housing vouchers, vacant space and health, potential credit help, more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Oct. 19
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: rent really is racist, new tales of voter suppression, swimming pool access, a response to a pro-gentrification argument, more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Oct. 12
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: fast food swamps, Seattle has too many apartments, criminal justice, basic income pilot, more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Oct. 5
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: a new kind of library lending, Amazon’s wage raise, life for Philadelphia’s poor, bipartisan work on the opioid epidemic, and more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Sept. 28
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: custom job searches for veterans, success in the land trust movement, middle neighborhoods, manufactured housing, senior cost burden at all-time high, more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Sept. 21
News from—and affecting—the community development world.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Sept. 14
Whole Foods Employees Seek to Unionize, Your Job Won’t Save You From Homelessness, Rent-to-own May Equal Jail Time
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Sept. 7
What driverless trucks will mean for drivers, public toilets as a human right, disappointing Democratic leadership, and more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Aug. 31
HUD hosts listening tour for landlords, inmates protest exploitation of labor with prison strike, a payday loan alternative, and more
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Aug. 24
Philly’s Fight for Affordable Housing | HUD Targets Facebook In Complaint| An Eviction App | A “Massive” Multifamily Housing Fraud
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Aug. 17
HUD’s Latest Assault on Fair Housing | Decriminalizing Homelessness | “Buying the Block” | FEMA’s Roadblocks In Puerto Rico | Public Transport And Health