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Can Technology Help Housing Counselors do More with Less?
On April 2, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan joined a host of congressional leaders and representatives from over 175 community...
Here’s How CDCs can Overcome the People-Based, Place-Based Gap
“Self interest generalized is community interest” — Kenneth Jones, community organizer
Throughout my experience in leading NeighborWorks America's Superstorm Sandy response, two critical aspects have...
The Quest to Create Standards for Affordable Homeownership
Stakeholder engagement is the heart of any successful community development effort. If you’ve ever worked for a community organization...
The March of the Millennial Generation to the Cities is Real
This past fall, the Washington Post ran a series called “The March of the Millennials“ about how this generation is changing Washington, D.C. For...
Poetry Slams Conditions of Richmond’s Public Housing
When poetry and investigative reporting combine, the results are fantastic.
PBS recently featured a collaboration between the...
Keeping Rural Seniors in Their Homes
Through my work researching housing for rural seniors, two things have become evident: first, rural America is older than the...
In Pursuit of a “Both/And” Housing Policy–The Case of Housing Choice...
Readers of Shelterforce are accustomed to seeing commentary about the perceived tension between community development and housing mobility. Almost...
The Ripple Effects of Having a Stable Home
“Homeownership increases a chance that a child will stay in school by up to 9 percent for low-income families,”...
What Have We Learned a Decade after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes?
As the housing community reflects in August on the tenth anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, what are the...
Renovation or Ruin
The notion is counterintuitive, even subversive, and it’s dividing activists involved in building affordable housing: Could it be that the nation’s largest program to...
Shelter Shorts
Salt Lake Officials Try to Redirect Low-Income Housing City councilors in Salt Lake City are trying to redirect where low-income and affordable housing can...
It Didn’t Begin With Katrina
We must always remember that New Orleans was suffering from an economic and political disaster long before Hurricane Katrina hit.
Real Estate and Mortgage Licensing for CDCs
Research is a critical support for practice. It can uncover creative new approaches to old challenges, help us think about our work in a...
The Promise and Challenges of Co-ops in a Hot Real Estate...
The Clinton neighborhood, also known as Hell’s Kitchen, sits in the western middle of Manhattan. From the urban disinvestment of the 1960s through the...
Shelter Shorts
CDC Partnership Gets Big Job in BostonPartners for Jackson, a development group led by two Boston CDCs, won a contract in June to redevelop...
Lessons from L.A.’s Progressive Coalitions
The Next L.A.: The Struggle for a Livable City, by Robert Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, Regina M. Freer and Peter Dreier, University of California Press,...
Making the Case for Employer-Assisted Housing
Given the array of housing challenges facing families and individuals in Illinois, advocates and other thoughtful observers might question the relevance of employer-assisted housing...
Dealing With Anxiety
During the 24 years I have been in fundraising, I have observed that the greatest factor causing people to leave fundraising, or to “burn...
Time to Build on Our Accomplishments
In addition to Shelterforce’s 30th year of publishing, 2005 also marks LISC’s 25th anniversary. From Shelterforce’s first issue to the day LISC opened its...
A Guide for Tenants on Leadership and Building Control
Renters in Washington, DC’s Shaw neighborhood have a little extra help these days as they organize to improve their living conditions – and maybe...