Awardees Honored at NLIHC 2012
The National Low Income Housing Coalition gave out a number of its annual awards this morning at its annual conference: Katy Reckdahl of the New Orleans Times-Picayune received the Media […]
Four Kinds of Concentrated Areas of Poverty
In a fair housing workshop yesterday at the National Low Income Housing Coalition's annual conference Sara Pratt of HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity had an interesting break down of […]
Fair Housing News from NLIHC 2012
The much-anticipated new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule is not yet out, and probably won't be available for comment for a few months, and HUD officials are keeping mum about […]
With Merger, Enterprise Expands Financing for “Workforce” Housing, Commercial
Enterprise Community Investment, the for-profit financing subsidiary of Enterprise Community Partners, has merged with Bellwether Real Estate Capital to form Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC. Enterprise says the merger is […]
Everyone Saves with Short Sales
Short sale—in which a home is sold for less than the balance due on the mortgage but the lender accepts that as payment in full—is a far better alternative for […]
Raising Rents on the Poorest of the Poor?
Lest we get totally lost in the (important) debates about principal reduction and restructuring the secondary market, Barbara Sard of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities reminds us that […]
Interview with Shelley Poticha, Director of Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities
Shelterforce speaks with Shelley Poticha, director of HUD’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, about implementing sustainable policy at the federal level while encouraging local innovation, keeping down the cost of green housing, and effecting change while dealing with federal government bureaucracy.
True Costs, True Responsibilities
This past July, a Voice of San Diego investigation charged that rather than doing its job of providing “homes for those who can’t pay San Diego’s high rents,” “affordable housing […]
Work That Needs Doing
How many times have you pointed to something in your community and said “If only we could put someone to work fixing that [house/sidewalk/bridge/factory/park…]?” The American Dream Movement has created […]
Getting to 99%
I find the occupation of Wall Street terribly exciting. But of course, this is not the first protest of this sort in response to the current mess. Nor are these […]
CLTs Go Commercial
The idea of turning the community land trust model into an economic development tool is attracting growing interest, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how it would work.
“Detroitism”: What’s the Role for Community Developers?
Guernica, a self-described “magazine of art and politics,” has a fascinating essay by Wayne State University professor John Patrick Leary about the “ruin porn” being made in Detroit, and the […]