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Housing

Checked Out: How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost...

Robin Urevich and Gabriel Sandoval - August 31, 2023

Fifteen years ago Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, Capital & Main and ProPublica found some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.

Reviews

The Age of Predatory Inclusion

Ben Holtzman - June 11, 2020

A review of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

cover of "City of Segregation" by Andrea Gibbons

Reviews

The Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles: A Review of City...

Jacob Woocher - January 25, 2019

Andrea Gibbons’ City of Segregation shows why empowering capitalist processes and actors is the last thing we should do to fight gentrification.

Community Development Field

A Ground-Up Approach in a Top-Down World

Joseph Landy - July 25, 2011

Community development in the last 20 years has been hindered by the perpetuation of real estate as a vehicle for wealth creation.

Research

Toes in the Water

J. Michael Collins - November 22, 2008

NHI’s latest research report, Toes in the Water: Nonprofit Community Development Real-Estate and Mortgage Brokerage Programs, identifies state regulatory obstacles and assesses the future...