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What Happens When a CDC Pivots to a Health-First Focus?
Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation in Cleveland finds that being an early adopter of a community health focus has its advantages.
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Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation in Cleveland finds that being an early adopter of a community health focus has its advantages.
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Between biased property appraisals that undervalue Black-owned properties and biased tax assessments that levy an unfair burden, homeowners of color are flanked by a double-whammy of racism.
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By building energy-efficient properties, Habitat reduces heating costs and frees up more than $100 each month for homeowners.
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The election returns last November generated a bit of discussion among community developers in Georgia last fall for a few reasons. There were certainly implications due to the definitive results […]
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Shelterforce is graciously allowing me to weigh in on a current topic of debate within the field of “shared equity homeownership” or “permanently affordable housing,” namely the relative merits of […]
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The proposed program could shrink the racial homeownership gap while serving a wide cross-section of people. But it only addresses some of the results of past discrimination.
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In-depth public opinion research points to ways to intensify support for housing justice policies—and to a few danger spots to avoid.
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This is part two of my post on community development and community organizing. In my first post, I argued that community development corporations needed to revitalize their relationship to community […]
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25 years ago tenants organized, formed coalitions, took to the streets, and won rent control in Massachusetts. But, after two and half decades of constant battles against powerful and wealthy […]
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In 1999 the Sacramento Mutual Housing Association (SMHA) owned and operated 492 units of democratically controlled affordable housing. It had demographic data on its low-income residents, and management data on […]
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Nearly to a person, the 2,300 attendees at last week’s Facing Race conference—and most of the speakers—said, at some point in the weekend that the gathering was “just where I […]
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Starting in 2017, researchers at Opportunity Insights and several other universities partnered with the Seattle and King County housing authorities, J-PAL North America, and MDRC to evaluate a housing mobility […]