Julia Stasch Chosen to Lead MacArthur Foundation
"Her leadership has already led to a greater sense of urgency, more focus, and enhanced impact in the Foundation's grantmaking and its creative efforts to help address some of the world's most challenging social problems."
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Launch of Silicon Valley Rising
This campaign is "a pact between faith leaders, community organizations, labor leaders and everyday residents to advance the singular cause of raising the standard of living for the often "forgotten" workers and families in the Silicon Valley tech economy"
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Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
The Center for Community Progress conference will be held in Detroit, Michigan on May 19-21
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Measuring Happiness: The Economics of Wellbeing
By Joachim Weimann, Andreas Knabe, and Ronnie Schob
The authors examine the evolution of happiness research, considering the famous "Easterlin Paradox," which found that people's average life satisfaction didn't seem to depend on their income. But they question whether happiness research can measure what needs to be measured.
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Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
By John Atlas
Based on Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to ACORN's staff and board meetings, this book documents the critical transition from founder Wade Rathke, a white New Orleans radical to Bertha Lewis, a Brooklyn African American activist.
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Small Scale Developers and Landlords Are Not the Enemy
Small-scale developers and landlords of 1-to-4-unit multifamily developments may be a key to helping reverse blight in distressed communities. Though these properties have long been vexing to community developers, there are ways to work with them in a positive way... More
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Good Things Come in Small Cities
Review: Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World, by Catherine Tumber.
Richard Florida has predicted that the larger cities are going to continue spreading into ever-larger mega regions, and those places left behind will wither away. However to Tumber's eyes (like mine) small cities are able to offer... More
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Brain Science Shows Us How We're Approaching Poverty Wrong
Review: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.
In Scarcity, a behavioral economist and a cognitive scientist explore how brains react to the experience of scarcity--whether it's poverty, extreme busyness, or other types of scarcity, such as the enforced calorie scarcity of dieters. They recognize that poverty is the most... More
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Homeownership Counselors--And Organizers, Too!
NWSHC's HUD-certified housing counseling, albeit streamlined and well-informed, often lacks the "teeth" needed to influence the policies, practices and decisions being made by banks who often see foreclosures as numbers rather than actual families. It is a balancing act between... More
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 When It Comes to Housing, Who Decides what is "Safe and Decent?"
One key principle of affordable housing is that we do not achieve short-term affordability by building low quality homes. It is important for housing professionals to be aware of broader trends and changes in housing standards, locally and regionally as well as nationally, and building energy codes are just one component of... More
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Bridging the Age Divide with Clicks, and Bricks
What do you lose by not bridging "the greatest generational divide since the Rock and Roll era?"... More
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New NLIHC Report on Affordable Housing Gap Released
The report provides a detailed look at the housing needs of low income renter households across the country by examining the gap between the supply and demand for affordable rental units at the national and state level, as well as for the 50 metropolitan areas with the largest renter populations. No state has more than 56 units affordable for every 100 extremely low income renter households and no metropolitan area has more than 47. More
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The Racial Wealth Gap: Why Policy Matters
This week, Demos and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy released the first in a series of reports using the new tool to quantify the impact of public policy on reducing the racial wealth gap. More
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City of Flint Adopts Beyond Blight Comprehensive Blight Elimination Framework, Offering a Model for Other Cities
It is guiding work on the 19,842 properties in need of blight elimination, which includes boarding, rehab, mowing, demolition, waste removal, and other interventions. More
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Q: Do Section 8 voucher holders increase crime in a neighborhood?
A: No!
This is a perennial fear, but researchers at NYU's Furman Center took a really close look at the data to see, when controlling for other factors, if there was any association between an increase in Housing Choice Vouchers and the crime levels in that neighborhood....
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I understand concerns about regressive taxes, but we need to increase the gas tax substantially. It has not kept up with inflation and it is the most fair way to pay for our roads - charge the people who use them. And let's now forget about the... More
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Project Manager-Multifamily Residential Development
PIRHL: Cleveland, OH
The ideal candidate will push each project through its critical path to closing, managing the review of due diligence and financial underwriting, the land entitlement process, design-development, financial closing, as well as providing oversight during construction, and lease-up... More
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VP of Development / Developer
PIRHL: Cleveland, OH
This professional will lead new business development for a defined region within company's seven state footprint. Leading a regionally focused team consisting of a development PM, Development Coordinator, and other supporting administrative staff, the Vice President of Development will be responsible for generating new residential developments... More
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Program Officer, Sustainable Environments
Surdna Foundation: New York, NY
The Program Officer is part of a four-person team led by a Program Director and staffed by two Program Officers and a Program Associate. The Program Officer works closely with the team on all aspects of the program, including day-to-day operations, broader program strategy development, and the implementation of a learning agenda... More
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Asset Manager
PIRHL: Cleveland, OH
This seasoned real estate professional will oversee PIRHL's growing portfolio of properties, will leverage data and lessons learned to assist in the underwriting of new development opportunities, and will proactively direct and oversee third party property managers in their effort to run the daily operations of each property.
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Regional Housing Legal Services
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HOPE Credit Union
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Democracy Collaborative
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Planner, Louisa County, Va.
National CAPACD
Opportunity Agenda
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ORNG Ink
National Housing Institute
Housing Assistance Council
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CFED
ACLU Maryland
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Housers, LLC
Housing Assistance Council
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