Subject: Affordable Housing
Relationships are critical to promoting affordable housing and community development, but how we invest in those relationships may be even more important. This is the message that stayed with me after the screening of the new documentary film Envisioning Home and the…
Do you wish your city had rent control, inclusionary housing, and a new permanent source of affordable housing funding? Rich Gross of Enterprise reviews National Housing Law Project and PRRAC's report on San Francisco's housing movement for us, and says: The…
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Every year the National Low Income Housing Coalition gives out a number of awards to individuals and groups who have played important roles in furthering the coalition's goal of providing or improving housing for lowest income Americans. The breadth of…
I've been around the affordable housing field for a little while (not as long as many of our readers though I realize), and I've sat through a lot of discussions about whether or not housing has a natural constituency, about…
Recently, Rosanne Haggerty of Community Solutions argued here on Rooflines that outdated building codes—including things like minimum sizes and parking requirements—were limiting the amount of affordable housing that could be built in New York City. She went so far as…
New York City’s Mayor Mike Bloomberg is in his last year of his third term in office. One of the signature achievements of the Bloomberg era is his affordable housing production initiative – called the New Housing Marketplace Program (NHMP)…
California Governor Jerry Brown is known for expressing ideas outside the standard political box. But in the case of California’s affordable housing crisis, Brown displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue. On February 12 at a housing forum at Haas…
It is well known that where people live can have a big impact on their life. For children, that can affect not only their health, safety, and development, but also their future. The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program has…
From the proposed short-funding of Project Based Section 8 to the fiscal cliff, it’s been a scary year for affordable housing. There were some 11th hour victories, such as the extension of the New Markets Tax Credit and the 9…
Year-end reviews generally cover events, but in 2012 the things that did not happen may have been more notable. That certainly seems to be the case regarding affordable housing for the lowest income residents of rural America. A couple of the…
The United States is emerging from one of the most extensive and painful economic crises in memory. It is well established that housing markets were at the heart of this crisis, and millions of American households lost, or continue to…
Decrepit trailers in unkempt parks, located in neighborhoods in which few would care to live. Such is the image conjured in the minds of too many Americans when asked to describe manufactured homes. But this stereotype could not be further…
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Though we don't yet have funding for the National Housing Trust Fund, and housing didn't get the play we had hoped in national campaigns, San Francisco put it on the agenda, taking action this Election Day to become the first…
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A few weeks ago, Jubilee Housing, an organization in Adams Morgan that runs a portfolio of seven buildings providing affordable housing to lower income tenants, in properties located exclusively within that neighborhood, had its annual community work day, which was…
Last month, PODER (People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights) achieved another victory in the fight for a more just and equitable San Francisco—getting a commitment from the city to turn a parking lot next to the Balboa Park…
I'm a data guy. I loved statistics in grad school. I crank through spreadsheets on a daily basis. I've coordinated two national surveys on community land trusts and co-authored an analysis of foreclosure data for the Lincoln Institute. I work…
Enterprise Community Investment, the for-profit financing subsidiary of Enterprise Community Partners, has merged with Bellwether Real Estate Capital to form Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC. Enterprise says the merger is consistent with the direction offered by its long-term visioning exercise,…
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Lest we get totally lost in the (important) debates about principal reduction and restructuring the secondary market, Barbara Sard of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities reminds us that housing stability and opportunity needs to go beyond debates about…
Earlier this month, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy announced a proposal that would increase the state's commitment to affordable housing by appropriating more than $330 million to renovate and create affordable, supportive and congregate housing. Couple that with last year's effort,…
Not long ago I was part of a conversation with a builder who wanted to put some tiny houses on some tiny lots. The lots had been in existence for some 50 years, never developed because their size made them…
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