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The rules of the game—and the attitudes of the players—have an enormous effect on community development work at all levels. Here we look at some of the conversations about how to shift that policy for the better.
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A Million Families at Risk
The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposes to rewrite the rules affecting the affordability of housing for over 1 million low-income families. Will HUD’s controversial proposal preserve affordable housing or cause significant displacement?
One Million Families At Risk
The dangers of Mark to Market and the needs for preserving expiring subsidized housing.
Thirty Years of HUD
HUD: Who Needs It? During the Newark riots in the summer of 1967, the melee spilled over into Plainfield and other outlying areas. When the National Guard was called […]
New Rules for Fannie and Freddie
Owning a home is the American Dream. But who can really buy the dream of homeownership and why? After almost 20 years of the Community Reinvestment Act and anti-redlining […]
HUD’s New Balancing Act
Setting Affordable Housing Performance Goals That Are Meaningful for America’s Low-Income Neighborhoods On February 16, 1995, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published an extensive set of […]
Ann Arbor Tenants Union
For 27 years, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union has worked to put tenants in power and keep landlords on their toes by counseling, educating, and organizing.
Fair Housing In America
Old Challenges Remain – New Challenges Arise The fair housing movement finds itself facing both old and new challenges almost 27 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act […]
Interview with Roberta Achtenberg, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Roberta Achtenberg, former Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, came to Washington from San Francisco, where she had been an elected member of the city’s Board of Supervisors […]
Neighborhood Choice: A Way Out for Some
The same factors that created ghettos of race and poverty operated to maintain them, even when subsidy might have provided a way out.
Reconnecting with America
EYES RIGHT!: Reflections on the November 8th Elections In the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton preached: “The rich get the gold mine and middle-class gets the shaft. It’s wrong and it’s […]
A Simple Case of Fraud
The Democrats were no prize, but the Republican Party is approximately as friendly to the cities as the Visigoths were to Rome.
Caught Off Base
EYES RIGHT!: Reflections on the Nov. 8th Elections What do the election returns tell us? First, Republicans did not win so much as Democrats – particularly conservative Democrats – lost. […]