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There are many different kinds of affordable housing. Shelterforce reports on the common and no-so-common variations, how programs are working, important policies and conversations about funding it, and more.
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Proposed Change to Rural Housing Program Would Address Looming Preservation Crisis
Housing affordability is not just an urban problem. Section 515, the federal rural rental assistance program, would be extended in the proposed federal housing bills—with an important rule change.
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From Motel to “Growtel”
A young man trying to build the urban farm economy in West Sacramento, Calif., has a novel idea. He saw an avenue lined with run-down old motels and asked, why […]
Early Funding is Worth its Weight in Gold
Developing affordable rental housing these days is a lot like putting together a puzzle – when the financing pieces are all in place, a thing of beauty results, but when […]
Two Steps to Rebalancing Housing Policy
Tax-writing committees in both houses of Congress are developing legislation to reform the tax code that may be seriously considered over the next year. They should use this opportunity to […]
“Mixed” Income Housing: With Segregated Entrances?
Here's exhibit A on how not to convince skeptical housing justice advocates (or anyone else) that mixed-income housing developments represent a step forward: Make the residents of the affordable units […]
What Determines Opportunity? (Hint: It’s Not One’s Bootstraps)
It’s the rare occasion when a significant social challenge is raised up in rigorous economic research and almost instantly answered by a creative and dynamic public policy response. Yet, in […]
Increasing Rents, Decreasing Units in Affordable Rental Market
I had the privilege of joining Eric Belsky, the director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University at the launch of its 2013 State of the […]
It’s Not Either/Or: Neighborhood Improvement Can Prevent Gentrification
Even where gentrification is only a distant threat (or hope, depending on your perspective) it looms large in any discussion of neighborhood change.
Q: Does Affordable Housing Development Lower Nearby Property Values?
A. No. No. No. Are 56 studies enough no for you?
Community Development Corporations at a Crossroads
For nearly half a century, community development corporations (CDCs) have been a tool of choice for organizing and implementing grassroots economic development programs. Emerging in the aftermath of the civil […]
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 […]