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Unlikely Partners: How Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Came to Be
In the 1970s, anti-redlining movements were in full swing and the idea that activists, lenders, and elected officials could share power to revitalize communities and advance homeownership felt like a reach. But that was exactly my charge.
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Titling Homes as Homes: A Novel Idea
I wrote in June that housing advocates should look to today's manufactured home as a tool to meet affordable housing demand. After all, it is less costly than many other […]
Take Note: Berlin Thrives with a Declining Population and Housing Surplus
A few months ago I wrote a piece for Shelterforce and a related piece for Rooflines on Mumbai. There I argued that our ideas and practices about housing and community […]
CDCs: You Don’t Have to Develop Real Estate to Be a Success
This is part two of my post on community development and community organizing. In my first post, I argued that community development corporations needed to revitalize their relationship to community […]
U.S. Catholic Funders: Resist Calls to Abandon Social Justice
In the last few years community organizers have learned it’s in their self-interest to become astute Vatican watchers. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) which is run by the US Conference […]
CDFIs: A New Force in Homeownership?
It has been a big year for community development financial institutions (CDFIs), the innovative, mission-driven organizations that provide much-needed financial services in underserved, low- and moderate-income communities across the United […]
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 figured out the way to keep rents […]
Housing Recovery, But Not For All
Our annual report, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2013, issued last June, documented the growing evidence of a solid recovery in the housing market, marked most visibly by widespread […]
Booker: Kill the Filibuster, End Watt’s Wait
Cory Booker was just sworn in as a U.S. Senator. His introduction to the lunacy of Senate procedure was swift. In April, the well regarded Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) was […]
Conservative Defeat Exposed in 10 “Shutdown” Headlines
Conservative icon Grover Norquist famously voiced the right wing’s hopes and dreams for our federal government: “I’m not in favor of abolishing the government,” Norquist quipped, “I just want to […]
Future CDCs Should Be Organizers, Not Developers
October is Filipino History Month. It won’t have its official grand opening before the end of the month, but Larry Itliong Village in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown (the HiFi) got […]
Rossana Torres: Taking on the FHFA
The following is a first-hand account from Rossana Torres on the need for the government to contribute to the National Housing Trust Fund. In July, Torres joined with Right to […]
Preserving Affordable Housing Through Tenant Advocacy
In March 2013, the National Low Income Housing Coalition introduced the United for Homes campaign, which proposes to create a source of funding for the National Housing Trust Fund by […]