Jan/Feb 2005
Issue #139
Coming Home
Whether our cause is housing, health care, education, or living wages, what brings us together is the belief in the value of ending poverty, of equity and justice, and the real and important role government has in protecting those for whom the market has failed. Also in this issue, a spotlight on the growing need for supportive housing for ex-prisoners re-entering the community.
It’s the Mission, Stupid
For the past four years, the Bush administration has been working hard to turn HUD into the Cheshire Cat – all grin, no programs. It has proposed block granting Section […]
Housing Ex-Offenders
There is growing anxiety about how to house the large number of ex-offenders being released from state and federal prison each year, over 600,000 annually. Many of these individuals experience […]
Predatory Lending: Redlining in Reverse
The proverbial American dream of owning a home has become an all-too-real nightmare for a growing number of families. Take the case of Florence McKnight, an 84-year-old Rochester widow who, […]
Building a Community-University Partnership in Newark
Among all the issues that affect taxpayers, none has a greater impact than a property tax revaluation. When Newark, New Jersey was about to have its first revaluation in more […]
Shelter Shorts
HUD Ordered to Desegregate in Baltimore A federal judge chided HUD for concentrating African-American families in Baltimore public housing, and said the federal agency must work to disperse these families […]
In Red State Florida, Victory for Working People
While 52 percent of Floridians voted for George Bush in the November election, 72 percent backed a Bush-unfriendly ballot initiative: a constitutional amendment raising the minimum wage. The law set […]
Exploring Alternative Sources of Fundraising
A low-income housing organization borrows $2 million at 1 percent interest and is able to buy a large number of homes that it then rents or sells to low-income families […]
The Rebirth of Urbanism
City: Urbanism and Its End, by Douglas Rae. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. 432 pp. $30.00 (hardcover). My reaction to Douglas Rae’s City: Urbanism And Its End was […]