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Massachusetts is watching
Given the interesting but not widely known fact that foreclosure rates in the current crisis are lower in neighborhoods with a larger percentage of...
CDCs Must Recognize Changing Conditions
It was announced this week that new home sales dropped 15 percent in December. This follows a year of similar news. Earlier in the...
An Inconvenient Greed (AIG)
It was hard to pick a winner in The Chicago Sun-Times’ March 20, 2009 Acronym Test, “What Should AIG Really Stand For?” I’m casting...
Jack Kemp: Stalwart of the Party of Lincoln
Jack Kemp will be remembered for his many roles in public life — as the quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, as U.S. Congressman (from...
National Work Among Community Organizing Groups Is Growing
Editor’s Note: This is in response to Randy Stoecker’s earlier post on community organizing on the national level.
ACORN, PICO, and US Action are among...
Raising Hell and Raising Money, Too
An ally of my agency, the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley (CACLV), told me about a conversation he once had with the...
So You Want to Be a Developer: Community Organizing Groups Consider...
The second week of October 2001 was a busy one for Nobel Neighbors, a community organizing group in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood. It...
Second Chances
Workforce Intermediaries for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Robert P. Giloth. Temple University Press in association with The American Assembly, Columbia University, Philadelphia, PA,...
Fighting Poverty as a Nation
The dramatic changes in federal and state antipoverty programs are leading to renewed interest in policies and strategies for reducing poverty. Borrowing from the...
Challenging Ourselves
Let’s start by saying what isn’t said often enough. Affordable housing and community development practitioners and advocates have done extraordinary work for many decades....
The Next Move is Always Ours
Gale Force: Gale Cincotta: The Battles for Disclosure and Community Reinvestment, by Michael Westgate with Ann Vick-Westgate, Education and Resources Group, 2011, 416 pp. $20.00 (paper). Available on Amazon.
A New Turn for the Consumer Financial Protection Bill
At about noon today, NCRC President and CEO John Taylor announced to attendees of his organization’s annual conference that the bipartisan attempt at crafting...
Place, Poverty, and Politics: A Growing Divide
Relocation or reinvestment? This longstanding debate has been reignited by recent events in Baltimore, Ferguson and many other cities, and the release of a...
CDFIs: The Boom Sector in the Community Development Field?
Three weeks ago I went to Philadelphia to attend the annual conference of the Opportunity Finance Network, the trade association for CDFIs, or community...
The Partners of Neighborhood Stabilization
This post is part of an ongoing series based on the National Fair Housing Alliance report, “The Banks Are Back,...
A Continued Pattern of Abuse
Even as we struggle to bring our economy back, Wall Street and the banks are continuing their pattern of abuse.
NYC’s Philanthropy Bagel Hole
New York City has everything, just like this bagel. Yum! The secret, as they say, is in the water. And...
How do you feel about the proposed QRM rule that would...
Results of the Shelterforce poll of October 12, 2011
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“20 percent is far more than necessary to protect banks against...
Shelter Shorts
NC Leads Predatory Lending FightIn late July, North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt signed what State Attorney General Mike Easley says is the toughest predatory...
Legislative News
1998 Elections
Senate Banking and Financial Services Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) was defeated in his race for re-election on November 3 by Charles Schumer...