Dedicated from the beginning to everyone working to empower and support low-income communities, Shelterforce provides a venue for conversations that need to be had—on topics such as housing affordability, homeownership, and lots more.
Tag: affordable housing
Just What Does “Brass in Pocket” Mean, Anyway?
I’m an impostor. No, that’s not right. A pretender? Okay, that’ll work for now. And I’m not talking Chrissie Hynde. I make my living...
Follow your counter-intuition?
Builders have not responded as aggressively as they have in the past. There hasn’t been the oversupply that is typical in this kind...
Housing Instability and Children’s Schooling
The crisis of affordable housing, both rental and ownership, is causing families to move frequently as they find it difficult to make monthly housing...
“Nation’s Poorest 1% Now Controls …..
Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can Wealth,” so reads a headline from the latest issue of The Onion, my favorite source of political commentary. The...
Collective Efficacy: Who’s in the Collective?
Kari Lydersen’s post on the challenges of mixed-income communities yesterday reminded me of some things I’d wanted to bring up...
Divided We Subsidize Agribusiness
Does anyone else feel a little like we’ve entered the Twilight Zone? Today we have Bush — yes, that same Bush whose gall in...
Make Lemonade from the Current Housing Crisis
When life serves you lemons, make lemonade. That seems to be the adage the Prince William County authorities are following with regard to the...
The Garden State Has a Tell, and Towns Are Calling the...
New Jersey is set to go all 12 rounds in its battle to achieve a plan for an affordable-housing mandate, but at this point,...
California’s Organizer in the State House
It just ain’t natural for a policy-type blogger to stray into ray-of-sunshine territory — we’re talking politics here, after all, so it’s smarter to...
Can the Senate Sway Bush on a Foreclosure Rescue Plan?
As of this writing, the Senate Banking Committee seems to be nearing a consensus on its housing rescue plan aimed at preventing foreclosures on...
Speak Out for the Neighborhood Stabilization Act
The foreclosure crisis is a tragedy for an increasing number of families, but what is frequently missing in the media coverage is the negative...
California: Fear & Loathing at the Ballot Box
Everybody likes to go all schadenfreude on California, jealous of the wonderful weather, fabled coastline, and our claim to Yorba Linda, birthplace of Richard...
California: Fear & Loathing at the Ballot Box
Everybody likes to go all schadenfreude on California, jealous of the wonderful weather, fabled coastline, and our claim to Yorba Linda, birthplace of Richard...
I Really Want to Be Wrong
Around the beginning of February I caught wind of the Permanent Source program here in California. Evidently the governor (and you all know his...
Stirring Up Change in the Steel Belt
The steel belt, once famous for its smoky cities, is capitalizing on a renewed public awareness of the environment to achieve tangible neighborhood change....
Will Foreclosures Translate into Votes?
What are the political consequences of the mortgage meltdown? Will the spiraling wave of foreclosures translate into votes in November’s election? And, if so,...
Balancing Act
Old definitions may be obsolete as CDCs weigh whether to grow and how to build their impact in today's social and economic environment.
Beyond the Farm
New trends in rural community development make the work of rural CDCs appear more in line with that of their big-city counterparts.
When Supportive Housing Isn’t
The rationale behind supportive housing for people with mental disabilities is that pairing individualized services with permanent housing will help them live independently. But one San Francisco advocate sees more neglect than support.
In It Together
The latest book by Bill McKibben, the well-known environmental journalist and activist, poses a provocative question for community economic developers: How do we improve...