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Tag: affordable housing
Filling the Affordable Housing Financing Gap in the Gulf Coast Region
A new approach to pooling financing? Gulf Coast Housing Partnership’s initiative combines LIHTC credits and low-interest loans from national Medicaid managed care organizations for projects that blend affordable housing and onsite health centers.
Understanding Community Land Trusts
What are CLTs? How do they work? What are the benefits and areas of concern? An overview.
How LISC, Enterprise Hope to Bring More Capital to Developers of...
Two large community development intermediaries have announced major racial equity initiatives that emphasize how affordable housing gets built—and who builds it.
‘Gentrification’ Is Not the Real Problem
The conversation about gentrification continually repackages a set of debunked theories as reality and it obscures a set of real crises that need fixing.
Growth Is Not Always the Answer
Why is it always assumed that a city’s rate of growth is natural, or unavoidable, or simply that more growth is always better?
Send In the Resident Ambassadors
Neighborhoods B.U.I.L.D. Dayton is a community lawyering project of Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc. and Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc. (B.U.I.L.D. stands...
Finance and Chill? Big Tech Flirts with Community Development
Facing calls to invest in racial equity, companies like Netflix, Twitter, and others have recently pledged millions in new financing for affordable housing, small businesses, and other community development projects. Will they stick around?
Paying Hospitals to Build Housing—New Jersey Program Expands
More affordable housing projects approved, new funding for scattered-site improvements for substandard housing, and talks about replicating the program beyond the Garden State.
Inclusionary Housing: Secrets to Success
A new survey of unprecedented scale gives us insight into the diverse range what of inclusionary housing programs look like and which ones are successful.
The Loss of Hudson Yards Could Be NYC’s Gain
The impending collapse of the grotesque Hudson Yards development in Manhattan could be an opportunity for affordable housing.
‘Do We Need Affordable Housing’ Is the Wrong Question to Ask
How we can help elected officials promote genuine community by ensuring inclusive, mixed-income housing.
Moving from the Inequitable Housing System We Have to the Housing...
Three big, but basic, things that we could do right now to get us much closer to equity in housing.
How Democrats Can Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis
With Democrats taking back the Senate, can the Biden administration go beyond immediate-term rent relief to win more ambitious housing solutions?
Is the Pandemic Improving Affordable Housing Asset Management?
Resident services has long been the first to be cut in hard times—but for some housing providers that may be changing.
Where Voters Supported Affordable Housing
It’s no surprise that all eyes have been on the General Election’s presidential and congressional races. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the...
Residents of Nonprofit Housing Have Lower Rates of COVID
Affordable housing providers have touted the connections between health and the places where people live for years. In a small city outside of Boston, the evidence is incontrovertible.
Lessons from 20 Years of Enabling Tenants to Buy Their Buildings
As cities across the country consider giving tenants the right of first refusal, municipalities must be meticulous in crafting policies that preserve and expand tenants' ability to form housing cooperatives.
“Why Would a Hospital Do This?” Shifting Institutional Culture for Health...
Hanaa Hamdi is the director of health impact investment strategies and partnerships at New Jersey Community Capital, the state’s largest CDFI. Michellene Davis is...
Housing Organizing in the Year of the Pandemic
California housing organizers reflect on what changes, and what stays the same, during a pandemic.
Tobacco Causes Cancer. Can it Also Build Housing?
“Sin taxes” usually fund health and education programs. Will Colorado add housing to that list? And should they?