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[…] one thing we always have to ask, however, is “Is it enough?” The answer typically results in a resounding “It never is.” The New York Times reported this week on […]

The new Congress will be enacting major new legislation, and it’s vital that community development leaders retain our tenacious optimism as we move forward.

[…] Georgia last fall for a few reasons. There were certainly implications due to the definitive results of State elections, but it was clear that the results of Congressional elections across […]

[…] choice. It’s also a competition where we can pretend that the scoreboard is real-life election results. Who cares whether most of us scoreboard watchers misuse and misunderstand (sometimes willfully) the […]

When the conversations surrounding the Michael Brown and and Eric Garner cases were at their strongest late last year, Shelterforce conducted a survey, asking our readers how they felt about the relationship between law enforcement and the communities in which they work and live. The answers we received ran the spectrum, from “Police presence is […]

[…] have substantially lower delinquency and foreclosure rates than owners of market-rate homes, according to survey results released recently by an independent researcher at Vanderbilt University working in partnership with the […]

[…] companies to create jobs in low-income communities. Critics say such programs haven’t yielded their intended results. A 2014 study by Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that promotes government […]

[…] to improve, and NPH members responded with voter registration campaigns in many counties, with striking results where there were ballot campaigns to increase housing funding underway. In San José, First […]

At an individual level, the 30 percent standard and the residual-income standard can produce very different results. But as a regional measure of affordability problems, they’re not so far apart.

[…] exceeded the total income. It was relatively easy to test whether the 30 percent standard results in housing affordability for any number of hypothetical wage-earning families using the salary data […]

[…] veterans—the number the plan stated it would adopt as its baseline. Additionally, the two cities’ results concern only the subpopulation of chronically homeless veterans. The Good News Despite these caveats, […]

[…] election cycle because the elected official has to get credit.” When you do that,  sometimes results are actually are counter-beneficial. The opportunity for philanthropy is the opportunity to reflect, to […]