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Arrest records aren’t the only barrier to employment out there that’s not about skills and job readiness. During the post-Katrina redevelopment of the New Orleans C.J. Peete public housing development […]
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Why Merge?
Since its inception in the late 1960s, the community development corporation (CDC) industry has grown dramatically, totalling 4,600 CDCs in 2005, according to a census conducted by the National Congress […]
A Surprising Payoff in California
Inclusionary housing (also called inclusionary zoning) is gaining popularity in California. It requires for-profit developers to build a percentage of affordable housing in all new developments. Yet some housing activists […]
Inclusionary Zoning: National Context and Impact
Inclusionary zoning (IZ) requires that a percentage of housing units in new residential developments be rented or sold for prices that are affordable to low- and moderate-income households. In exchange […]
Building Political Will
A Shelterforce Q&A with Irvine Mayor Beth Krom Shelterforce: In an environment of competing needs, such as education, safety and parks, how do you prioritize the development and preservation of […]
A Win-Win Formula
A community land trust (CLT) is a nonprofit organization formed to hold title to land to preserve its long-term availability for affordable housing or other community uses. Typically structured as […]
State Laws that Foster Resident Ownership
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 […]
Rewarding Bad Behavior
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. […]
Snapshots of Some Initiative Successes
A mother of two young children, Maria started babysitting to supplement her family’s income. Even though she worked hard, she barely made any money until joining a Latina support group […]
What’s Rural?
Definitions of “rural,” especially as devised to determine eligibility benefits for federal programs, can make anyone dizzy. Rural advocates take issue with the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) latest […]