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Community development relies on policies, resources, and recognition that were won by decades of organizing—and organizing remains essential to face new threats, preserve existing wins, and continue to fight back against the big lie that the way things are is inevitable.
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How State Coalitions Are Advancing Community Ownership of Housing
In recent years, housing coalitions promoting community land trusts and real estate cooperatives have formed in multiple cities and states—and they are achieving results. Nonetheless, a lot of work is needed to achieve the policy changes these groups desire.
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CDFIs: A New Force in Homeownership?
It has been a big year for community development financial institutions (CDFIs), the innovative, mission-driven organizations that provide much-needed financial services in underserved, low- and moderate-income communities across the United […]
People First, Profits Second
The most important part of The Atlantic Cities' piece, “Has Germany Figured Out the Way To Keep Rents Affordable?“ isn't whether Germany has figured out the way to keep rents […]
Housing Recovery, But Not For All
Our annual report, The State of the Nation’s Housing 2013, issued last June, documented the growing evidence of a solid recovery in the housing market, marked most visibly by widespread […]
Booker: Kill the Filibuster, End Watt’s Wait
Cory Booker was just sworn in as a U.S. Senator. His introduction to the lunacy of Senate procedure was swift. In April, the well regarded Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) was […]
Conservative Defeat Exposed in 10 “Shutdown” Headlines
Conservative icon Grover Norquist famously voiced the right wing’s hopes and dreams for our federal government: “I’m not in favor of abolishing the government,” Norquist quipped, “I just want to […]
Future CDCs Should Be Organizers, Not Developers
October is Filipino History Month. It won’t have its official grand opening before the end of the month, but Larry Itliong Village in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown (the HiFi) got […]
Rossana Torres: Taking on the FHFA
The following is a first-hand account from Rossana Torres on the need for the government to contribute to the National Housing Trust Fund. In July, Torres joined with Right to […]
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. […]
A Decade of Growth
Institution-based community organizations tackle the challenges of the new millennium at the local, state, and national level
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 […]