Jodi Weinberger
Jodi Weinberger served as assistant editor of Shelterforce from 2013 to 2014.
An Organizer’s Work Is Never Done
An unprecedented local hiring win is a stepping stone in a trajectory to turn workforce development on its head.
Manufactured Locally
While there is much debate about the state of large-scale domestic manufacturing, a few places are quietly supporting local manufacturing for items that have been made overseas for some time, from jewelry to jeans.
The American Dream Under Duress?
“For most Americans, the housing crisis is hardly a thing of the past.” This is how Hart Research Associates opened its presentation...
Twin Cities HUD Office Spared in Scheduled Closings
Here's some good news to start your Monday:
A HUD office serving Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota will stay open and continue providing services...
NPR: “Gentrification May Be a Boon To Longtime Residents”
Studies say that gentrification could be a good thing for low-income residents, but people suffer when they can't afford to stay in their neighborhood. So what's up with these studies?
Mel Watt, Get to Work!
Monday marked a big victory for housing advocates as Rep. Mel Watt was sworn in to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He replaces...
People First, Profits Second
The most important part of The Atlantic Cities' piece, “Has Germany Figured Out the Way To Keep Rents Affordable?“ isn't whether Germany has...
Dare to See the Possibilities in Manufactured Homes
Residents in the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto, Calif., are fighting to stop the sale of their community to a luxury...
Illinois Housing Groups Band Together to Survive New HUD Regs
Community development leaders took a grim view on some impending changes to HUD HOME regulations, telling Shelterforce in 2012 that the new rules would...
Little Rock Residents Fight Displacement, Win Big
What happens when neighborhoods come together to fight displacement from a powerful and seemingly unstoppable political force?
They win.
Residents in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of...
Can Banksy Make New York City Affordable Again?
Earlier this month Shelterforce posted a conversation about gentrification that posed many different questions about the term and its role in community...
Community Collaboration Results in Brilliant Transformation
This is a project you truly have to see to believe.
Artist Matthew Mazzotta, the Coleman Center for the Arts, and community in York, Alabama,...
Urban Planning Needs More Women
As a feminist who loves labeling herself with the word feminist, I get stuck in a lot of frustrating conversations with those who...
What’s in a Name?
The government leaders in Paterson, N.J., are learning the hard way about the importance of community involvement in the naming and branding of...
Housing Advocates File Suit Against DeMarco, FHFA
Don't be fooled by the appearance in the media of a housing market in recovery, Rachel LaForest, executive director of Right to the...
Defining Language
Comprehensive. Scale. Development. Capacity. Impact. These words (and many others) took on new definitions when I began working at Shelterforce just two...
Community Development: It’s What’s For Dinner
Last week we heard from Alan Mallach and Mindy Thompson Fullilove on different aspects of stable neighborhoods.
Mallach, in his post, looks at some of...
NJ Court Blocks the State From Taking Municipal Affordable Housing Funds
I was a reporter covering Bergen County, New Jersey, in May 2012 when municipalities in the state were told by the Council on Affordable...
3 Things for Nonprofits to Remember About Abandoned Properties
“'Do nothing' is not an option.”
So says Jerry Flach, construction project director at Paterson Habitat for Humanity, of the need to take action on...