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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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Good News—New York State Style
New York state has been described as having the most dysfunctional legislature in the country. Gerrymandering that keeps the houses continually in the hands of opposing parties, and rules that […]
No Sense of Decency?
Kari Lydersen has been posting on Rooflines from New Orleans this week, offering first-person witness to the sorry plight of the city’s poor and the explosion in the homelessness rate […]
Decoding Housing Finance Agencies
State housing finance agencies play a pivotal role in affordable-housing development, yet many advocacy organizations don’t know how to gain leverage in influencing these increasingly powerful bodies.
A Tale of Two Anaheims
Disney may have won the day against the construction of affordable housing in its “tourism zone” but the coalition forged in the struggle against The Mouse is alive and well and pushing for a community benefits agreement in Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle development.
Injury to Injury
I don’t have any links to post on this, because I haven’t found it being covered anywhere, but in some conversations I’ve been having with state housing trust fund managers, […]
The Limits of Federalism
Responding to Andrew Macurak’s post on Pennsylvania interfering with its counties’ right to pass strict smoking bans and but allowing them opt out of paying for transit: On all of […]
Massachusetts is watching
Given the interesting but not widely known fact that foreclosure rates in the current crisis are lower in neighborhoods with a larger percentage of CRA-regulated institutions, it’s promising to see […]
Californians Defend Rent Control
On Tuesday, California voters provided a tremendous victory for tenants’ rights. They defeated Proposition 98, which would have phased out rent control, by a landslide margin of 61 percent to […]
Nathan, Obama’s Got What It Takes
Nathan— You’re talking about attachment to a particular candidate, the kind of personalization of the process that’s led Hillary Clinton supporters to vow they’ll vote for McCain now that their […]
Transit-Oriented, But Affordable?
Planning and community development blogs are aglow with talk of transit-oriented development (TOD), which is just that: development clustered around bus and train stations. It’s the favorite buzzword of smart […]
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 in two ways. The first is […]
Follow your counter-intuition?
Builders have not responded as aggressively as they have in the past. There hasn’t been the oversupply [of housing] that is typical in this kind of [business] cycle. We’ve come […]