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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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Soaring Property Insurance Rates Threaten Affordable Housing Development
Rapidly rising insurance premiums are forcing affordable housing developers to cut back on programming, lay off staff, and even sell. To add insult to injury, some insurers also seem to be adding penalties or withdrawing coverage for housing voucher holders.
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Q: Can Nonprofits Get Out the Vote?
A. Yes! Nonprofits are often uncertain about what they can legally do, but they can get out the vote among their residents, clients, and staff.
Signaling A Strong Message of Support For Immigrant Neighbors
In today’s climate, the first and often most important barrier between vulnerable residents and deportation is simply their front door.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Sept. 21
News from—and affecting—the community development world.
Fair Housing at 50: At the Root, It’s Still Race Over Place
We should have known better. The Kerner Commission taught us that race matters most, not place. But it also embedded in our psyches the equation of Black = central city and the similarly absolute equation of white = suburbs.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Sept. 14
Whole Foods Employees Seek to Unionize, Your Job Won’t Save You From Homelessness, Rent-to-own May Equal Jail Time
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Sept. 7
What driverless trucks will mean for drivers, public toilets as a human right, disappointing Democratic leadership, and more.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Aug. 24
Philly’s Fight for Affordable Housing | HUD Targets Facebook In Complaint| An Eviction App | A “Massive” Multifamily Housing Fraud
Is a Home with Lead Hazards Really “Affordable”?
The cost of housing is not simply the mortgage, rent, and utilities, but the individual and community health, education, and social costs associated with low-quality, unstable, and unhealthy housing.
Eviction Lab Misses the Mark
As housing activists and academics who conduct research on issues of housing and displacement, we have encountered major problems with Eviction Lab’s practices.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Aug. 17
HUD’s Latest Assault on Fair Housing | Decriminalizing Homelessness | “Buying the Block” | FEMA’s Roadblocks In Puerto Rico | Public Transport And Health
In Memoriam: Jeremy Nowak
Jeremy Nowak, a founder of Reinvestment Fund and founding board member of the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), passed away on July 28. Nowak was, as anyone who knew him would […]
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Aug. 10
Union Power | A Clinic Moves To Serve Displaced Clients | On The Horizon-Sweeping Change To Financing Industry Regulation