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Equity
What is equity? Can it be measured? How and when does the issue come up in housing, education, employment, public utilities, and more? How are community organizations, grant-making institutions, and policymakers working to advance equity?
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How a Data Center Derailed $240,000 for Affordable Housing in Rural Maine
In rural Midcoast Maine, nearly one-quarter of $1 million in federal money earmarked for housing was rescinded from a small town after local officials sought to use the funds for a data center.
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Former Foes Join to Defend NJ’s Housing Trust Funds
Injustice can create unlikely collaborators. In early 2012, New Jersey’s Governor Christie set out to cover state budget gaps with funds that were in held in trust by municipalities solely […]
Businessweek Cover Points to Us All
All the criticism that the recent BusinessWeek cover is getting is well deserved. It deserves even more. The juxtaposition with the relatively benign article inside especially makes one wonder why such […]
Now File Fair Housing Complaints on the Go
There's an app for fair housing now. That's right. HUD has released an app that allows you (or your clients) to file a Fair Housing Act complaint from a mobile […]
4 Ways Critics of the Disparate Impact Doctrine Have Got It Wrong
On Feb. 8, 2013, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a rule clarifying the circumstances under which certain housing practices may violate the Fair Housing Act (FHA) […]
Effects Matter: Disparate Impact Standard for Fair Housing Ratified
Fair housing advocates celebrated a major milestone last month when HUD issued final regulations ratifying that “disparate impact analysis” can in fact be used to assess compliance with the federal […]
Do Denser, Poorer Areas Need More Third Places?
“In Kibera, the streets are truly the public spaces, and people are out all day, every day: selling, socializing, trading. People make their living—they live their lives—right out in the […]
Where are people returning to the community from prison supposed to live?
The United States is incarceration happy. Our incarceration rate is five times as high as comparable countries, and has been the highest in the world since 2002. This means a […]
What Does the Push for Transit Oriented Development Mean For Rural Areas?
The affordable housing world is paying attention to the connection between housing costs and transportation costs, and that’s a good thing. The federal government and many state and local governments […]
Get Out of the Way
To create a great third place, one of the most important principles is to let users make it their own.
Bending the Arc Toward Justice
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often said that the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. Dr. King had a broad and nuanced vision of […]
CDFIs Speed Up Sandy Recovery
When disasters strike, our first responders ensure that emergency resources get to those in need. But when the immediate danger has passed, communities need a different kind of support. […]
An Important Piece of the Puzzle: A Response to “Some of Us Shall Not Be Moved”
In her recent Shelterforce online review of We Shall Not Be Moved, my book about post-Katrina recovery efforts in five New Orleans neighborhoods, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs argues that the book presents “a […]