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Obama’s Third Way
Barack Obama carried lessons he learned as a community organizer to the political arena. Both organizers and politicians would be wise to study them closely.
NYC Tenants Get a Break
Since 1994, only low-income New Yorkers in emergency circumstances-those fleeing domestic violence or families in shelters-could apply for federal housing assistance. But this year,...
Hope, Action, Change
Reading David Moberg’s article on presidential candidate Barack Obama’s days as a community organizer, I was struck by a quote from an Obama fundraising...
Asset-Building Comes of Age
From IDAs to comprehensive community wealth building, the number of strategies to increase personal and collective assets is growing.
A Winning Campaign
Housing advocates in Washington, D.C., marshaled four strategies for achieving inclusionary-zoning policies designed to protect affordability in a rapidly gentrifying city.
The Purchase of a Lifetime
The bank balked. Neighbors grumbled. But these poor tenants would not be swept away in the real estate boom.
City Hall Steps In
Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.
Gaining Ground
Manufactured-home communities, long vulnerable to displacement at the whim of park owners, are working with nonprofit partners to increase resident ownership of the land.
Introduction
With the publication last fall of Shared Equity Homeownership: the Changing Landscape of Resale-restricted, Owner-occupied Housing, the National Housing Institute completed the first phase...
Lessons from a Chicago Saga
In "Waiting for Gautreaux," Polikoff examines the 30-year effort to eliminate the Black ghetto and move Chicago Housing Authority tenants to integrated communities.
Building For the Future
The supply of affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area is expected to increase in the next five years because of an innovative...
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Housing First may have gone a long way toward taking homeless individuals off the street, but it's leaving families out in the cold.
An A for Effort
When it comes to covering affordable housing and homelessness crises that plague our country, the press has given it the good-old college try. Small-town...
Passing the Buck
Testifying before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on the effects that predatory lending and exotic mortgages have on the rising rate of home foreclosures,...
School House Rocks
One Missouri school district has given new meaning to “no child left behind.” Discouraged by the number of homeless students in its district, and...
On a Positive Note
House Committee on Financial Services chair Barney Frank’s plan to include provisions for an Affordable Housing Fund in the House version of regulatory reform...
MacArthur Foundation Earmarks $25 Million for Housing Research
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation plans to invest $25 million over the next five years in research into the causes, effects...
Foreclosure Fuzziness Media Watch
Pity the poor media consumer. It’s nigh-on impossible to understand the burgeoning mortgage crisis rippling through communities around the country if you’re relying on...