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Should Everyone Have a Decent Home? Obscure HUD Document Suggests No
A call for research proposals on reducing housing demand suggests a radical and troubling shift that may be coming in housing policy.
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State Laws that Foster Resident Ownership
To secure the benefits of resident ownership for mobile-home park residents, it is important for states to enact laws giving residents the opportunity to buy their communities. A handful of […]
Rewarding Bad Behavior
New Century Financial, the former subprime-lending giant that filed for bankruptcy in April 2007, won permission in May to pay 116 executives and top managers $3.2 million in bonuses. U.S. […]
Mr. Nice Guys
Professional athletes have become synonymous with big cars and bling, not with random acts of kindness. But the Houston Texans’ Jason Simmons is not a stereotypical pro athlete. Simmons wore […]
Identity Crisis
Shelters and food pantries are lifelines for homeless people. But soon they may be out of reach. When in May the House passed the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act (HR […]
Snapshots of Some Initiative Successes
A mother of two young children, Maria started babysitting to supplement her family’s income. Even though she worked hard, she barely made any money until joining a Latina support group […]
What’s Rural?
Definitions of “rural,” especially as devised to determine eligibility benefits for federal programs, can make anyone dizzy. Rural advocates take issue with the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) latest […]
New Financing for Community Health Centers
The Whittier Street Health Center, a 78-year-old clinic serving Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, rang in the new year by relocating to a new six-story, 78,900 square-foot, $37 million facility. The clinic […]
Big Uneasy
In New Orleans, a city already devastated by a natural disaster that wiped out a good percentage of its affordable rental housing, it seems counterintuitive that HUD would be on […]
Straight-Talk Express?
If you think “nightmare” when you hear about Chicago’s high-rise public-housing projects, Beauty Turner wants to take you for a ride. Turner’s “ghetto bus tour” acquaints sightseers with the vanishing […]
The Heart of the Story
CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer’s now-famous summertime tirade about the collapse of the subprime markets captivated media pundits and bloggers, as well as close to 2 million YouTube viewers. […]
Getting it Done
An AmeriCorps program that brings together talented young people and community-development groups seeking greater capacity is making a difference in Indianapolis.
Struggling in the Crescent City
Grass-roots advocacy groups and community-advocacy organizations are taking the lead in restoring housing in New Orleans.