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Organized Tenants Are Baaaaack
After a lull in the 1990s, the tenants rights movement reemerged and has only gained strength. What caused the resurgence and what do tenants’ prospects look like?
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Foreclosure Nightmare Continues for “Famous” Chicago Renters
Esteban Cruz digs his hands into a big plastic tub of letters and documents bundled and labeled by month. This mass of paper represents the past year the tenants of […]
Food Banks: Another Crisis Casualty?
Last week, when a prominent and long-standing central New Jersey soup kitchen went to the newspapers as a last resort to inform the public that demand was up, donations were […]
Don’t Put All The Dollars Into a Few Streets?
In a new, substantial post on planetizen.com, Charles Buki suggests that the foreclosure crisis presents an opportunity for community developers to re-assess where they allocate their limited resources. He says […]
In From the Margins
Well well well — Wall Street goes into the dumper after years of “free market” worship and Congress and newspapers and all begin fumbling for advice, new sources. Someone to […]
Gloomy Outlook for Nonprofits
It’s going to be a while before we begin hearing some good economic news, particularly as the current economic landscape reverberates within the non-profit world. And with that, a forum […]
Renters Still Facing Foreclosure Evictions; Help Arrives, But Is It Enough?
Last week, I wrote about Cook County (Chicago) sheriff Tom Dart angrily suspending evictions of renters from foreclosed buildings; since many of these renters were dutifully paying their rent and […]
Mortgage Buyout Plan Changes by the Hour
John McCain made news Tuesday night during the town hall-style debate with Barack Obama when he announced his plan to buy up bad mortgages at the taxpayer’s expense. The plan, […]
Memos on How To Make Change From the Grass Roots to the Oval Office
From the grass roots to the Oval Office: Shelterforce contributors offer policy suggestions for the next president on how to make change.
Core and Periphery: “Trading Places”?
In a cover story for the latest issue of The New Republic, Governing Magazine editor Alan Ehrenhalt proclaims that the American city has reinvented itself by becoming the suburbs. Ehrenhalt […]
Subprime’s Footprint
While immediate steps are necessary to stem foreclosures, a comprehensive solution requires a broader brush.
Walkin’ Blues
They say leaving home ain’t easy, but some homeowners in Florida find they have no other options. More and more homeowners are finding ways to leave their mortgages, hoping to […]
Foreclosure Fuzziness Media Watch
Pity the poor media consumer. It’s nigh-on impossible to understand the burgeoning mortgage crisis rippling through communities around the country if you’re relying on the mainstream press to give you […]