Housing

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Shelterforce took the occasion of Michael Bodaken’s retiring from the National Housing Trust to speak with him about how he got into housing, some of his favorite projects, and his recommendations for the field going forward.

A university study on rent control makes three crucial mistakes in its assessment of the policy’s effect on San Francisco’s housing market. Housing advocacy organization Tenants Together sets the record straight on rent control’s role, and who is actually to blame for the city’s unaffordability.

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Why are nuisance ordinances proliferating nationwide, and who is disproportionately affected?

A new funding collaborative, Funders for Housing and Opportunity, has just launched. The collaborative, officially a project of the New Ventures Fund, involves (so far) nine large and well-known foundations.

Though much fanfare is showered on the CLT model, land trusts often struggle to get off the ground because very little support is available for those trying to create one or for existing CLTs looking to expand.

Bank-seized properties in these communities of color have higher rates of neglect, and the situation has prompted a lawsuit.

Methods from a successful organizing campaign from the past can inform the basis of a new electoral constituency around housing.

HMDA is the key to preventing predatory behavior, not the cause of it, so how can an economics professor from George Washington University claim that HMDA can facilitate large-scale identity theft?

How tenant and rent protections failed the residents of eight rent-stabilized buildings in Queens.

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