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Whatever Happened to the Tenants Movement?
Last June, thousands of New Jersey tenants wrote to Republican Governor Christine Whitman and urged her to include more tenant/consumer voices on a Landlord-Tenant...
Can Seattle’s Renters Put Judy Nicastro in the Hot seat?
Judy Nicastro is running for City Council. Ronald Reagan made her do it. It was 1980, and Nicastro was 14. Reagan had just been...
Shelterforce Roundtable: Housing Justice Today
On March 29th, 1999, Shelterforce convened the leaders of ten national housing and social justice organizations to discuss the accomplishments and challenges of the...
Building Effective Partnerships: The Process and Structure of Collaboration
The widespread pursuit of partnerships and collaborative relationships is one of the most significant trends in community organizing and development in the 1990s. Whether...
Charting a New Future
In late 1996 Southern California CDCs were reeling. The recession of the early '90s had bottomed out but recovery was at least a year...
New Movements for Housing Justice
Years ago, the founders of Shelterforce – the Shelterforce Collective – had a vision. They would unite the middle-class and the poor around a...
Shelter Shorts
Hot Housing Market for Whom?
While homeownership rates soared to an all-time high in 1998, the housing boom has led to higher rents and housing...
Collaborative Fundraising
My grandmother, when she wanted to describe a scary but potentially important undertaking (such as going on a trip to another country, or opening...
Grassroots Advocacy Strengthens Housing Trust Fund
Washington state housing activists came together in 1997 to launch the Housing Our Community Campaign to increase the state Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to...
HUD and Congress Remember HUD’s “Forgotten Housing Stock”
Over the past three years, the strong economy has driven up real estate prices in many markets, making the market rate conversion of below...