Juan Leyton named DSNI Executive Director
"We are excited to welcome Juan Leyton as DSNI's Executive Director as we continue to engage our community in the work of development without displacement and success for every child. We are fortunate to have him join us and he follows in the footsteps of some extraordinary leaders like Chris M. Jones, John Barros, Greg Watson, Ro Whittington, Gus Newport and Peter Medoff."
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Sustainable Investing: Risk, Value, Impact! This event offers a unique opportunity to network with leaders of the sustainable, responsible and impact investing community, and to learn about new approaches, trends and policy developments in the field.
May 4- May 6
Chicago, IL
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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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Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom
to the Kill Zones
In her extraordinary memoir, Rice chronicles her odyssey, the people who inspired her, and the teams she forged with allies and former foes. She counts among her partners LAPD police chiefs William Bratton and Charlie Beck, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, and gang interventionists such as Darren "Bo" Taylor.
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Immigration Is a Community Development Issue
Large immigrant populations are no longer the province of major coastal cities. Community development groups located anywhere are likely to have at least some immigrants within their constituencies, and in some cases might be seeing the demographics of their neighborhoods shifting significantly. This can bring new challenges, such as... More
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A New Remedy for America's Complicated Immigration History
Our immigration system is broken, and needs comprehensive reform. Comprehensive reform would address all aspects of our immigration system, not just focus on enforcement measures, for example, or on updating a single kind of visa. The necessary ingredients include... More
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Shelterforce Exclusive Interview
John Henneberger
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service
2014 MacArthur Fellow
It's not every year (or even every decade) that community developers and housers see themselves represented in the ranks of the coveted MacArthur Fellows (or "genius grant" recipients). That in and of itself would be sufficiently exciting, but when Shelterforce staff sat down to talk to John Henneberger of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, one of the 2014 MacArthur geniuses, we certainly found ourselves impressed and excited. Driven by a sense of justice since college, he has been on the frontlines of... More
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From Rooflines, the Shelterforce Blog
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Solar for the People
An affordable housing complex put solar panels on its roof! This is about the "real sharing economy" and following Naomi Klein's dictum that "the people who got the worst deal in the old economy should be the first in line to benefit in the new economy." But somewhere buried down at the end of the article is a concern that seemed to me to be a fairly big point--none of the people living in the building have... More
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Police & Community Partnerships in L.A. Housing Projects
The Watts neighborhood has the greatest concentration of public housing in the city and each development had been marked by deep-rooted gang problems, drug sales, and crime. The point of LA's Community Safety Partnership was to try something different from brute force policing--the agency's primary method before--and instead focus on... More
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Municipalities Leverage Resources to Support Family Wealth-Building
Ho'owaiwai is a Hawaiian word that broadly translates to a vision of wealth that is more than financial, and encompasses relationships with family, place, and culture. Hawai'i County, specifically the Office of Housing & Community Development, is using that principle and their power to create better financial outcomes for low to moderate income families on the island... More
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I agree with the general thrust of Josh Ishimatsu's blog that community development practitioners often ignore the dangers posed to low-income people and low-income neighborhoods by hot markets. I also applaud his call for "a bigger, better, more cohesive set of programs and practices" for dealing with hot markets. I disagree, however, with his basic premise that community development as a field of practice has been focused exclusively on solving the problems of cold markets. That isn't true. Many of the "old wars" that we fought in our field - and continue to fight - were ignited by HOT markets. It was not disinvestment and white flight that animated much of the grassroots organizing that occurred in American cities during the two decades prior to the Great Recession. It was... More
Community Land Trusts are another potential tool for addressing the hot market issue by creating... More
Oakland CA is taking on this challenge with a place-based revitalization without displacement initiative. We've also been working on developing comprehensive... More
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New Report on Creating Integrated PSH Opportunities for ELI and Disability Households
The Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) present Creating New Integrated Permanent Supportive Housing Opportunities for ELI Households: A Vision for the Future of the National Housing Trust Fund. This report highlights important innovations in affordable housing financing policy designed to benefit Extremely Low Income (ELI) households, including people with significant and long term disabilities who need Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). The PSH approach is a highly cost-effective best practice housing strategy that combines ELI housing with voluntary community-based support services.
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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....
Read more and download The Answer here! |
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Opportunity Finance Network, Philadelphia, PA
The essential functions of the position are to design methods to collect primary data from CDFIs, including financial performance, portfolio activity and performance, and community outcomes. Clean survey data, conduct data analyses, develop and undertake issue-focused research based on OFN's primary data as well as other data, and disseminate findings to broad audiences.
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Transit Equity Network/Gamaliel
Housing Assistance Council
Regional Housing Legal Services
USC Price School of Public Policy
HOPE Credit Union
Burlington Associates
Democracy Collaborative
Columbia University
Tufts University
Fund for Public Schools
Planner, Louisa County, Va.
National CAPACD
Opportunity Agenda
HACBED
ORNG Ink
National Housing Institute
Housing Assistance Council
Independent CLT consultant
CFED
ACLU Maryland
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Housers, LLC
Housing Assistance Council
Appalachian State University
San Francisco Community
Land Trust
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