Shelter Shorts

Unreformed Vampire Squid | Facebook to Investigate Inequality | When Algorithms Fail the Poor | A Mortgage Fraud Scheme that Targeted Minorities | Puerto Rico’s Brewing Housing Crisis

Gentrification’s Off the Hook | Double Housing Discrimination | Medical Care for the Homeless | It’s Still Expensive to be Poor | A Robust Economy Lifts “Some” Boats

Carson’s been warned | Chicago’s Section 3 accomplishment | Airbnb’s influence on rent prices | PayDay lenders are fans of Trump | A win for community benefits

Quote of the Week: “Even as the core problem in cities shifted from disinvestment to displacement, the policy paradigm has remained the same: Spur growth in an area starved for […]

Bus Routes Out of Poverty | Amazon—Earn Your Subsidy | The Numbers Behind ‘Urban Renewal’ | Overdue Rent is Sickening | Med. Students As City Planners? | Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirement

A Health Care Conundrum | L.A. Takes Steps to House its Homeless | Post-Disaster Lessons for Nonprofits | An Eviction Crisis is Here | Discrimination in Auto Lending

Activists at the Golden Globes | Carson’s HUD Takes Some Heat | We Make an Exception on Workforce Housing | Companies Must “Do Better” in Nashville | California Makes Policy Using Opportunity Maps

2018 Housing predictions | Gentrification News | Local Resistance | Unlikely inspiration for planners

Canada says housing a human right | Protecting local business | Homelessness prevention saves money | CLT milestone in Colorado

Walmart and Ben Carson looking out for your financial health?! | Homelessness numbers up, but lowering them saves money | Rental market finally slowing down.

“Attainable” housing | Defeating land contracts | Harassed tenants get legal win | Preaching against gentrification | Housing on Bill Gates’ mind

Demolitions conducted using Hardest Hit Funds have exposed already suffering communities to asbestos; Vancover gets accessory dwelling units right; Obama dismisses the idea of a community benefits agreement in Chicago; and more in this week’s Shelter Shorts, a look back at the week in community development news.