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A large, colorful mural painted on the exterior of a building. It says "WELCOME TO NOHO" in capital letters and depicts people of different ages, genders, races, and ethnicities dancing and playing music in front of different types of housing and community buildings, including apartment buildings, a health and fitness center, a theater, and a gallery. The building is set back from a public sidewalk, and part of a tree shades the right-hand side of the mural.

How State Coalitions Are Advancing Community Ownership of Housing

In recent years, housing coalitions promoting community land trusts and real estate cooperatives have formed in multiple cities and states—and they are achieving results. Nonetheless, a lot of work is needed to achieve the policy changes these groups desire.

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Building Political Will

A Shelterforce Q&A with Irvine Mayor Beth Krom Shelterforce: In an environment of competing needs, such as education, safety and parks, how do you prioritize the development and preservation of […]

Policy

City Hall Steps In

Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.

Housing

Labor Goes to Bat for Housing: a Community-Labor coalition in San Jose

Organized labor and affordable housing advocates in San Jose and Silicon Valley have formed a coalition to support more low-income housing, inclusionary zoning, and tenants rights.

Nonprofits

Moving Toward The Market

Nonprofit Enterprise In a Changing World The basic strategies for addressing the problem of homelessness in the United States have progressed from emergency shelter to affordable housing to housing with […]

Organizing

ACORN Organizes Public Housing Residents

As the ACORN Tenant Union comes near to completing its first full year of organizing public housing residents, with 150 developments organized representing some 38,000 public housing tenants across the […]