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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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Immigration Leaders Take a Stand…In Handcuffs
Immigrants are increasingly putting their bodies on the line, hoping to move immigration reform. On Oct. 8, a Chicago activist was one of roughly 200 protesters arrested outside the nation’s […]
Don’t Evaluate Community Development on Poverty Rates
Right now, in community development and in the nonprofit/charitable/public service sector more broadly, there is a push to incorporate more hard numbers, more metrics, into our evaluation of our performance. […]
Manufacturing Affordable Homeownership Solutions
It’s time to take factory-built homes seriously as affordable housing.
Inside the Affordable Housing “Big Tent”
One of the great things about the National Housing Conference is that it brings together such a wide variety of parts of the field.
Why Conservatives Can’t Afford a Real Government Shutdown
It’s conventional wisdom that voters will mostly blame House Republicans if the federal government shuts down over their effort to defund the Affordable Care Act. That’s probably true, but it’s […]
Will New Rules Be Enough to Protect Homeowners?
For those who watch affordable housing, it’s tough viewing these days: from stagnant wages and an uncertain regulatory environment to sequestration and a bolder push against any program for low- […]
4 Reasons Why We Need More Community on Labor Day
“Good Jobs: Strong Communities” read many of the signs at the Labor Day rally and march in Cambridge organized by the Service Employees Industrial Union’s (SEIU) 32BJ that represents property […]
Dismantling the Model Minority Myth Should be Everybody’s Project
The National Coalition For Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD) recently released a report that gives a demographic profile of poor Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) and highlights the […]
Could Transportation Policy Transform Affordable Housing?
Ask affordable housing practitioners what keeps them up at night and you’re bound to hear about these two major concerns: • Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) opposition to affordable housing […]
HUD’s New AFFH Rule Could Hurt Low-Income Communities of Color
I believe in promoting opportunity and social/economic equity. And I believe that all of us should have the opportunity to live in a place where we can maximize our families’ […]
The Ripple Effect of Thoughtful Planning
In a post on Rooflines on April 18, Shelterforce editor Miriam Axel-Lute wrote that gentrification in Brooklyn is the result of plans by bodies like the Regional Plan Association, not […]
Sell the CLT Movement For What It Is: Radical and Superior
This morning I taught what was probably my millionth class on community land trusts—but this one was different. This was a course for the Democracy Convention, the second national gathering […]