Shelterforce Staff
Shelterforce is the only independent, non-academic publication covering the worlds of community development, affordable housing, and neighborhood stabilization.
Shelter Shorts
Landlord Tastes Own Medicine
Newark landlord George Williams recently suffered a fate similar to that of Joe Pesci's character in the movie The Super, in...
Shelter Shorts
Landlord Tastes Own Medicine Newark landlord George Williams recently suffered a fate similar to that of Joe Pesci’s character in the movie The Super, in which a judge orders Pesci to serve time in the same decrepit building his tenants must endure daily. On November 22, Municipal Judge Paul R. Daniele ordered Williams to serve […]
A Nation in Trouble
Most of us feel today that this country and its communities are in serious trouble. We don't, however, see anyone doing anything ambitious enough...
Washington News and Views
From the National Alliance to End Homelessness
Clinton Administration to Propose HUD Reinvention
The Clinton Administration has thought better of a plan it had formulated to...
Recommended Reading
Deals From Hell: How Creative Nonprofits Pull Off Affordable Multifamily Housing with ONLY 11 Funders.
Recently, the Community Information Exchange conducted a project that examined...
NHI Activities
The past few months at NHI has been busy and productive.
On November 16th, the National Housing Institute will host a conference entitled Saving Affordable...
Washington News and Views
From the National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Second CRA Rule Released for Comment
Fair lending groups across the country are reacting to a proposed Community Reinvestment Act...
Shelter Shorts
Rent Control Under Siege
By the time you read this, rent control ordinances throughout Massachusetts will have been saved or abolished depending on the result...
Shelter Shorts
California tenants save rent control with major grassroots effort
In a major, hard-won victory for tenants, the Senate Judiciary Committee defeated AB 1320 (Costa), the...
Washington News and Views
From the Center for Community Change
HUD Announces Field Hearings On Discrimination In Property Insurance
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing a...
Shelter Shorts
Jury Awards $3.2 Million in Lending Discrimination Case
In the first jury trial in the United States dealing with mortgage lending discrimination, an individual was...
Shelter Shorts
ACORN Tenant Union Launched in Public Housing
One of the worst legacies of the Reagan-Bush years is the state of the nation's public housing. While...
NHI Activities
Things move fast around here.
Carole Norris, National Housing Institute's newest board member, has just joined the National Congress of Community Economic Development as vice...
Washington News and Views
Community Reinvestment Act Reform Update
In July, 1993, President Clinton requested that the four banking agencies begin a comprehensive review and overhaul of the regulation...
NHI Activities
A roundup of the NHI conference Saving Affordable Housing: A Critical Examination of Successful Models, and other news notes.
Shelter Shorts
Community development news notes on housing programs, Americorps, corporate support for LISC, and federal legislation.
Shelter Shorts
Jury Awards $3.2 Million in Lending Discrimination Case In the first jury trial in the United States dealing with mortgage lending discrimination, an individual was awarded $3.2 million in damages after a jury determined that he was discriminated against when denied a loan by First Gibraltar Bank (now known as First Madison Bank, FSB). Gordon […]