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Nonprofit to Close Mobile Home Community to Build a Park
Ohio’s largest conservation land trust has been accused of purchasing a manufactured housing community with the very intention of closing it, evicting more than 100 households in the process. But proponents of the park’s closure say the land's failing infrastructure—and the benefit the property will bring to an entire city—is what forced the decision.
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Growing a Stronger Nonprofit Housing Sector
High-capacity nonprofit housing enterprises that can achieve efficiencies of scale have an important role to play in addressing the affordable housing crisis and policy makers should help them do so.
Housing Advocates File Suit Against DeMarco, FHFA
Don't be fooled by the appearance in the media of a housing market in recovery, Rachel LaForest, executive director of Right to the City Alliance (RTTC), said on a press […]
A New Way to Diffuse NIMBYism?
Proposals for affordable housing developments elicit predictable opposition, summed up in the familiar acronym, NIMBY—Not In My Back Yard—is the well-known shorthand for complaints about offensive land uses, offending architectural […]
Back in a Bubble?
It’s been less than four years since the end of the Great Recession, yet signs point to another potential bubble in the housing market. The Case-Shiller index of house prices […]
Manufactured Housing Deserves a Second Look
Recent housing trends should focus advocates on a very significant problem: the declining homeownership rate. Investor-driven price increases, reduced affordable inventory, depressed incomes and larger homes have helped move homeownership […]
Affordable Housing Doesn’t Have Enough Advocates, Science Explains Why
In May, Scientific American (SA) published an article entitled “You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think.” The title refers to the article’s pointed rebuke of a well-publicized Dove brand video […]
Renters Rising
How San Francisco’s housing movement turned an assault on renters into a victory
4 Lessons from “Envisioning Home”
Relationships are critical to promoting affordable housing and community development, but how we invest in those relationships may be even more important. This is the message that stayed with me […]
Learning from San Francisco’s Housing Movement
From Urban Renewal and Displacement to Economic Inclusion: San Francisco Affordable Housing Policy 1978-2012, by Marcia Rosen and Wendy Sullivan. National Housing Law Project and Poverty and Race Research Action […]
Review: Learning from San Francisco’s Housing Movement
Do you wish your city had rent control, inclusionary housing, and a new permanent source of affordable housing funding? Rich Gross of Enterprise reviews National Housing Law Project and PRRAC's report […]
Honoring Housers and Their Supporters: NLIHC 2013 Awardees
Every year the National Low Income Housing Coalition gives out a number of awards to individuals and groups who have played important roles in furthering the coalition's goal of providing […]
Has the Housing Movement Found Something to Unite Around?
I've been around the affordable housing field for a little while (not as long as many of our readers though I realize), and I've sat through a lot of discussions […]