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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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Transient America
This morning I read about the dismay of residents of a New York City neighborhood who have watched as people who owned homes on their block have suddenly disappeared. Foreclosure […]
Chicago Sheriff Stands up for Renters
Losing a home to foreclosure is a nightmare, causing at least one person — Carlene Balderrama of Massachusetts — to commit suicide in recent months. Seeing all the money, work, […]
Keeping Hope (And Housing) Alive in LA
Wall Street is in meltdown. Banks are collapsing. Developers can’t get loans to build homes. Housing values are plummeting. Millions of Americans are facing foreclosure. But in Los Angeles late […]
Affordable Housing and the Financial Crisis
It’s been interesting to watch the conservative conga line blame the affordable housing expansion effort for the country’s current financial crisis. But, as writers on Rooflines displayed when community organizing […]
Restructuring in the works for some CDCs
What do you do when your CDC can’t afford to buy pencils or print business cards, and certainly can’t buy land or buildings? You consider a major change in the […]
Planning vs. Development: Can We Really Choose One?
In theory, the current financial crisis is a good thing for neighborhood planning. With developers slowing down their projects because they can’t get financing, there may be an opening for […]
Preserving Safe, High Quality Public Housing Should Be a Federal Priority
A report I recently co-authored for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examines the state of public housing in the United States today using significant new research on the […]
Affordable Housing as an “Unfunded Mandate”
Sorry to keep the focus on New Jersey, folks, but if you are a long-time Rooflines reader, you’ll know that I will, once again, preface this post with: At least […]
When Worldviews Collide
John McCain reinvented himself — again — this morning. And the latest avatar is the reincarnation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Speaking in Green Bay, Wisc. about the global economic collapse […]
What Does the Financial Crisis Mean for CDCs?
Being a person who doesn’t have much invested in the stock market, I tend not to pay too close attention to photos on the business pages of weary stockbrokers on […]
Community Organizing: More than 15 Minutes of Fame
For months, I’ve been leading kind of a single-minded existence, writing a book about the little known and little understood field of community organizing through the lens of ACORN, the […]
For Brooklyn’s Starrett City, Affordability is Binding
The owners of Brooklyn’s 140-acre Starrett City, the largest federally subsidized housing complex in the country, have reached an agreement to sell the property that includes affordability provisions for working- […]