Miriam Axel-Lute

In the Spring 2017 issue of Shelterforce, we talk about something that comes up daily for many people working in the community development field—what does housing affordability mean? Crafting practical policies to back up our vision requires that we be thoughtful about all of the pieces.

If you live anywhere with a substantial resistance to the current administration's attacks on immigrants, you may have seen...

We recently published both an article and an Answer column that shows how one group in Philadelphia, WPRE/NR, is...

We gathered some people who have done a lot of thinking and studying on regulation to discuss what it might look like to actually remove obstacles that get in the way of developing less expensive housing options responsibly. What's possible? What are the trade-offs?

The Washington Post reported today that a preliminary HUD budget cuts $6 billion—eliminating Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and...

Ben Carson has been confirmed as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the weak...

Amidst the chaos of the past couple weeks there has been at least one positive change—a lot more people...

In those exhausting and frightening days right after the election in November, I had the good fortune to catch Rinku Sen for a few minutes at the end of a long day of her organization’s biannual Facing Race conference. Though she must have been running on next to no sleep by that point, Sen was insightful, earnest, and eager to talk about the road ahead.

Triage is in effect among those opposed to the incoming administration and the president-elect's cabinet picks. This morning’s Senate...

Let's raise the standard deduction and lower tax rates to give everyone a tax cut!It should not surprise you that since this is a...

Who has been behind the large increase in financial support for and attention to what has been termed "creative placemaking" over the past couple years, and why?

Having had the experience of public art with no public involvement, a community organization set out to show there could be another way.

Coming mere days after the election, the reference to the famous Audre Lorde declaration, “Art gives us tools other than the master’s tools,” felt apropos. The people in the room were ready to hear any message of hope. I was no exception.

If you look at what Rip Rapson has accomplished and the insight he brings to his current work, you'll get a much better picture of who he is and the challenging work he spearheads at the Kresge Foundation.

Airbnb, as with some other of its fellow peer-to-peer “disruptive” tech solutions, has come under fire from a few...

Attention has been rightly focused this past week on the fact that the...

At the Opportunity Finance Network conference in October, I finally got a chance to sit down and talk with...

Nearly to a person, the 2,300 attendees at last week’s Facing Race conference—and most of the speakers—said, at some...

Last week I attended the Opportunity Finance Network conference, the annual gathering of Community Development Financial Institutions and those who work with them. As usual,...

Last week, while in Atlanta for the Opportunity Finance Network conference, I caught a glimpse on a bus tour...