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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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Fifty Young Progressive Activists Who Are Changing America
In the next decade, America will be transformed by a new wave of progressive activism, led primarily by organizers, thinkers, and politicians born after 1960. It is already bubbling below […]
Lesson from Sandy: Better Disaster Planning Needed for Housing
As storms become more violent and damaging, even if not necessarily more frequent, public housing organizations must update their disaster planning and build more resiliency into their organizations.
Solutions After Sandy: Rebuilding the Right Way
All around America, we've watched the devastation of Hurricane Sandy with a sense of shock and heartbreak. For millions of people who suffered from the storm, some of the hardest […]
How Hurricane Sandy Can Change Perceptions of Homelessness
Dramatic advances in medical treatments emerge in times of war. How might the housing crisis created by Hurricane Sandy advance our housing systems? The storm-related housing emergency that currently exists […]
Déjà Vu All Over Again?
Amidst the recent plans of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Bank of America to offload substantial portfolios of foreclosed properties to well-capitalized investors, Oakland, California is in many respects […]
Candidates’ Silence on Housing Issues Elicits Frustration
How do you convince somebody to fix a problem when they are seemingly blind to the overwhelming evidence that the problem even exists? Today, 11 million Americans owe more on […]
Putting “Community” Back in “CRA”
The Community Reinvestment Act and regulators have been unable to hold banks accountable to distant and distinct local communities—so nonprofits have stepped in to do the heavy lifting.
Happy Birthday Occupy!
Occupy Wall Street launched one year ago Monday, September 17, 2011. This past Monday, people converged on Manhattan's financial district to mark that anniversary and continue to raise issues about […]
What Matters to a City? Thoughts from Detroit
In the last few months, Neil Peirce's Citiwire.net has hosted several pieces highlighting positive things happening in Detroit along the lines of “the wave of young and mid-career professionals who're […]
A Balanced Goal: Affordable Housing for Renters and Homeowners
This post was submitted by the National Low Income Housing Coalition as part of a blog series hosted by Rooflines, the Opportunity Agenda, Race-Talk (the blog of the Kirwan Institute for […]
We Can Save Homeownership
It’s no secret: homeownership in America is in trouble. If this crucial part of the American Dream is worth saving—and it is—it’s also no secret how to start saving it. […]
Preserving and Improving Affordable 2- to 4-unit Properties
In a Shelterforce–hosted roundtable discussion of leading research and policy experts to looking at what makes housing affordable and how the nationwide housing crisis changed the affordable housing landscape, NHI […]