Alice Chasan
Alice Chasan served as editor and associate publisher of Shelterforce from 2007 to 2008.
Rooflines: Make It Better
Welcome to Rooflines, the new group blog of the National Housing Institute.
At the risk of going all biblical on you, Rooflines’ launch is one...
Blinded by the Light
These days, it seems like everybody’s talking about housing. That should be good news for advocates working to focus the federal government and the...
Promises in the Rose Garden
Edward Gramlich, who died in early September, spent years as the lone voice on the Federal Reserve board of governors warning about the dangers...
Building a Better Housing Policy
Shelterforce editor Alice Chasan talks to Jonathan F. Fanton, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, about an ambitious new project aimed at reframing the national conversation about why housing matters.
Conversation Starter
How do we take care of our own? It’s a deceptively simple question that’s so fraught with contention in the American public discourse that...