Practitioner Voice
Shelterforce has always been driven by the voices of the people in the housing field. Practitioner voice pieces are neither reported journalism nor standard opinion pieces, but articles that share knowledge, insight, or examples from people who work or research in the field.
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Supreme Court Considers Landlord Appeal That Could Overturn Tenant Protections
A legal case claiming that COVID-era eviction moratoriums were unconstitutional could spell trouble for tenant protections
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Doing “The Right Thing” Won’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Solutions to address racial wealth inequality have often focused on behavioral changes and individual choices, minimizing efforts to dismantle structural barriers to wealth accumulation for Black Americans.
The Cooperative Struggle Against Redlining
Many people are familiar with redlining, but less well known are the handful of cooperatives that sprouted up following WWII with a bold mission: providing integrated, community-owned housing.
Burdensome Documentation Requirements Keep NOLA Homeowners from Getting Home
The Road Home program was supposed to help thousands of families rebuild their homes after Hurricane Katrina. Instead, $33 million was left undistributed, and now the Louisiana Office of Community Development is suing homeowners who couldn’t rebuild.
Community Engagement Can’t Be a Checklist
Are we engaging communities meaningfully, or are we just checking off boxes?
Why Do Low-Income Residents Oppose Development Even When Displacement Risk Is Low?
There’s more than one way to be excluded from your community.
Increasing Access to Affordable Housing in Indian Country
There is a strong desire for homeownership among Native households, but a set of obstacles specific to Native lands are getting in the way.
How to Temper the Influence of Private Equity in Manufactured Housing
The risk of onerous lot rent increases and the fear of eviction are more threatening than ever as private equity enters the manufactured housing market.
In Spite of HUD, Fair Housing Process Can Help Communities
Last year, Philadelphia was one of the first cohorts to go through the AFFH process, a fair housing assessment mandated by HUD to discover impediments to opportunity in the city. […]
Tenant Organizing From the Ground Up
Gentrification is not the inevitable result of economic development, but the result of fundamentally unjust economic development policies.
A New Perspective on Housing Tenure
Those of us who work in housing and housing policy know how complicated housing tenure can be. The most common forms of tenure, which describes the legal status under which […]
Who, Why, and How Communities Oppose Affordable Housing
The results of a survey of affordable housing developers in New York State and their experiences with communities that oppose affordable housing.
NIMBY: Where, When, And to Which Developers It Happens
Looking at how affordable housing developers deal with community opposition, we tackle the issue of the timing of opposition and developer responses.