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Why should owners of buildings in illegally poor repair be able to buy more rentals? As Washington, D.C., found, it’s not the easiest thing to prevent.
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Half-Truths on the Hudson
Through the rose-colored glasses of USA Today, Jersey City looks fabulous. America’s newspaper ran a feature article describing how the Hudson County city-long before “The Sopranos,” the butt of a […]
Praise for the Peacock
Shelterforce never shies away from chiding mainstream media for ignoring America’s affordable-housing crisis, so we shouldn’t hesitate to give praise where it’s due. Kudos to MSNBC.com’s Rising from Ruin an […]
Not That Happy Anymore
Things are heating up in Anaheim, Calif., where a dispute between the city council, a housing developer, and the Walt Disney Company has turned “the happiest place on earth” into […]
Stripped of Duty
All 22 staff members of the Berkeley Housing Authority were fired in late spring after an investigation uncovered abuses within the agency, which receives $25 million in federal funds each […]
Weathering the Storm
As the foreclosure tsunami sweeps through Ohio’s communities, housing advocates devise strategies to keep homeowners from being pulled under.
A Hometown with You in Mind?
A new book rating more than 400 U.S. metropolitan areas taps Gainesville, Fla., as the best place to live in the country. In the second edition of “Cities Ranked & […]
Meeting the Foreclosure Crisis
Every day, news reports document rising foreclosures and their growing impact on our economy. As the congressional representative from Ohio’s north coast – a region with one of the highest […]
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Housing First may have gone a long way toward taking homeless individuals off the street, but it’s leaving families out in the cold.
NYC Tenants Get a Break
Since 1994, only low-income New Yorkers in emergency circumstances-those fleeing domestic violence or families in shelters-could apply for federal housing assistance. But this year, from February until May, the NYC […]
Gaining Ground
Manufactured-home communities, long vulnerable to displacement at the whim of park owners, are working with nonprofit partners to increase resident ownership of the land.
Introduction
With the publication last fall of Shared Equity Homeownership: the Changing Landscape of Resale-restricted, Owner-occupied Housing, the National Housing Institute completed the first phase of a long-term project for documenting […]