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Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—Oct. 19
News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: rent really is racist, new tales of voter suppression, swimming pool access, a response to a pro-gentrification argument, more.
Not Just for School Kids
All across our communities are wonderful parks, fields, and playgrounds … behind locked fences, or marked with big warning signs that they are only...
Ballin’ at the Graveyard
The documentary Ballin’ at the Graveyard looks at the hardball culture and strong supportive ties between players that have brought two generations of men...
Update: Atlanta Beltline
In our Winter 2010 issue, we published a series of articles about the Atlanta Beltline, a rail loop surrounded by multiuse trails that is...
HUD Regs Change May Hurt Local Housing Groups
New revisions to HOME regulations would require CHDOs to have someone with housing development experience on staff.
Public Housing, Private Property
1070 Washington Avenue in the Morrisania section of the Bronx sounds like just another address, but it’s notable for being the home of a...
Who Owns Our Neighborhoods?
Outside investors are buying up foreclosed properties in Oakland, California, at a rate that not only has Oakland residents uneasy, but has also raised...
Healthy by Design
Can America’s most populous county design its way to better physical health and lower obesity rates? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave...
Florida Flipper Nabbed in Cleveland
The head of a sham financial corporation was arrested late last year for illegally flipping hundreds of homes in several Ohio counties, including Cuyahoga...
Urban Reprise
Cities are growing again, with young people increasingly interested in moving to more walkable communities. And it’s not just traditionally hot market cities that...
Putting ‘Silent Pickpockets’ on Notice
Discriminatory lending practices are a “silent pickpocket” skulking among unsuspecting borrowers, said Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at the National...
Changing the Conversation
Stretching across more than 20 U.S. cities, a new consortium called Occupy Our Homes is continuing to organize actions in neighborhoods where evictions, vacant properties, and foreclosures have had damaging effects.
Breaking the Bank
On Nov. 5, 2011, Bank of America had just withdrawn their threat to levy a monthly debit card fee, the major lenders were under...
Taking the Long View in Texas
What kind of city does Austin want to be? According to Imagine Austin, a new comprehensive city plan, it could someday be considerably different...
Do Foreclosures Make Us Sick?
New research shows a direct correlation between foreclosure and hospitalization, adding another way that foreclosures have a disparate effect on low-income communities and communities...
QRM’s Downstream Effect
The discussion around how to define a qualified residential mortgage (QRM) has dragged on for over a year now, with no end in sight....
Still Transforming Rental Assistance
HUD, in light of a recent capital needs study, will conduct a “rental assistance demonstration” rather than complete programmatic implementation of its Preserving, Enhancing,...
Extending a Bank Branch to the Community
The systemic closing of bank branches in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods is followed by payday lenders, pawnshops, and check cashing services stepping in to fill the void.
What Affordable Housing Enforcement?
In 2010, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie introduced legislation to abolish the Council on Affordable Housing, the enforcement body for New Jersey’s fair share...
(Land) Bank of America?
“What we now have taking place in Cleveland is an ‘REO Race,'” wrote Frank Ford in our Fall/Winter 2009 issue, describing a “tsunami” of...
