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Community Development Field
Shelterforce considers “community development” to be an extremely broad term. But there are still many conversations about the ways in which that broad work happens. Comprehensively or in coalitions of specialized organizations? Locally or regionally? Place or people? While the answers to all of these are usually “both,” there are many conversations to be had about “how.”
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How Education and Housing Advocates Worked Together to Win More Rental Assistance
In Maryland, parents and school leaders joined with housing advocates to win additional rental assistance, targeted to families in the state's community schools.
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Mission-Driven or Profit-Driven? Enterprise’s Hidden Role in Mobile Home Park Purchases
Despite Enterprise Community Partners’ majority voting stake in Bellwether Enterprise, the nonprofit lender long insisted it couldn’t address its subsidiary commercial mortgage lender’s questionable lending for mobile home park purchases.
What Trump’s DEI Orders Could Mean for Housing
The president’s executive orders threaten the funding of a wide range of housing programs in the U.S. Over a dozen federal grantees told us how they’ve been affected, and how they’re planning for an uncertain future.
How Might Tariffs and Deportations Affect Affordable Housing Development?
Many affordable housing developers worry Trump’s proposed taxes on imports and crackdown on immigration will be detrimental to the industry. Others hope deregulation reduces development costs enough to offset those effects. What’s the most likely outcome?
How Housing and Community Development Advocates Are Preparing for Trump
Advocates are looking for common ground to work with the new administration, but are also prepared to defend critical policies and programs that could come under attack.
How Fast Could Financial Regulations, Treasury Programs Change Once Trump Takes Office?
Affordable housing and neighborhood investment programs are closely tied to banking and the Treasury Department. What is the incoming administration’s attitude toward some key financial regulations, and how easy would it be for them to enact changes?
Survey Says: Rising Insurance Prices and Dropped Policies Threaten Community Development Work
Insurance carriers have dramatically raised premiums or even canceled policies on affordable housing providers, according to survey results.
Fixing the Housing Crisis Beyond Supply, a Webinar
What are the root causes of the housing crisis and how can we address them?
Shelterforce’s Top 10 Stories of 2024
Our original reporting about dangerous proposals, property insurance woes, and other threats to affordable housing (and what we can do about them) were some of our most-read stories of the year.
Why Some Affordable Housing Managers Are Running Education Programs
Many housing organizations are finding that educational programs are a logical—and valuable—addition to their offerings.
Expanding the Mission: The Community Groups Serving Schools
Some community development organizations have added education to their traditional focus on housing and economic development. By partnering with local school districts, they’re looking for ways to support families and children in their neighborhoods. How’s it working?
To Make Schools Better for Everyone, Connect Them to Community Development
Schools affect their neighborhoods—if community developers don’t harness that connection for equitable change, someone else will.
Education and Housing Advocates: Better Together, But Too Often Apart
The pandemic reminded us how education and housing affect each other. Now some advocates are fighting to make sure no one forgets it.