Tag: 6_Radical_Ideas
Housing for Families, Not Just Households
It’s time to do away with a mortgage-industrial complex that turns “families” into “households” with income earners, credit scores, and debt ratios.
Housing Policy Should Be About People, Not Product
Most low-income households in the United States live in private-market housing. American housing policies, though, rather than focusing on the needs of that majority,...
Eliminate the Poverty Trap of Means-Adjusting
Want to do something radical and transformative for affordable and public housing? Eliminate means-adjusted rents in family properties.
Not means-testing, the entry review that assures...
New Objectives for Affordable Housing
In this age of the Great Recession, it’s imperative to establish a new objective for the affordable housing movement. There is a need for...
Better Living by Urban Restoration
It is the larger social and cultural environment of a home that creates health, not the housing unit considered on its own, concluded a...
Housing for People, Not for Profit
Poverty is not contagious or created by poor people, but is caused by systems of oppression such as racism, classism, gender discrimination, and homophobia