This conference co-hosted by the Urban Land Institute and Enterprise Community Partners will explore how "some of the most pressing issues facing our communities can be addressed through affordable housing." Conference will be held July 13-15, in Minneapolis. Learn more here.
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Serving the Community, In Their Language
By Keli Tianga, Shelterforce
As the languages and cultures community groups serve change and multiply, how do they keep up? More
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From Rooflines, the Shelterforce Blog
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An Answer to San Francisco's Housing Woes?
By James Tracy, San Francisco Community Land Trust
Tracy Parent writes the budgets, pro-formas, and finance plans that put teeth into the idea of a "right to the city." In this Q&A she explains... More
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 Place, Poverty, and Politics: A Growing Divide
By Greg Squires, George Washington University
Virtually all parties to this debate pay at least lip service to the need for both relocation and reinvestment. The challenge is whether agreement on such a dual agenda will become more than a throwaway line. To more concretely illustrate the emerging divide... More
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 Seeking Solidarity Between Place-Based and Economic Justice Work
By Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce
We need both a nationwide push for full employment and higher wages and an understanding of how place affects opportunity--but what does it mean concretely to act as if both are important and interdependent?... More
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 Local Hire: Popular and Controversial
By Laura Barrett, Gamaliel
For once the "good guys" seem to be prevailing on the DOT's local hire pilot program. This is good, but the program could be better. Here's how... More
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Thank you, Gregory for an important post around the place-mobility debate. I have a simple approach to my CED work: Place-Based, People-Centered. At times, the approach is to strengthen efforts to empower communities and residents. Other times, families should seek opportunities through mobility. I share a similar fear and frustration that unless you endorse mobility as THE means for improving the lives of families and individuals then you're complicit in resegregation and promoting concentration of poverty in our neighborhoods. I will remain steadfast that an approach that embraces being place-based and people-centered allows for a two-prong approach to improve our communities. --Ray Neirinckx, on "Place, Poverty, and Politics: A Growing Divide"
It is important for all of us who advocate for a "both/and" approach that encompasses both community revitalization and housing mobility, to acknowledge how far we are from any real balance in our national housing policy. Housing mobility, inclusionary zoning, and opportunity-based development in the LIHTC program are just a small fraction of our overall low-income housing investment. This is particularly true for families with children, and in our segregated metropolitan areas. Until we come to terms with the extent of this imbalance, it will be difficult to come to a real consensus on the kind of "balance" we are seeking. --Phil Tegeler, on "Place, Poverty, and Politics: A Growing Divide"
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Bounce Forward: Urban Resilience in the Era of Climate Change
Bounce Forward, a collaboration between the Kresge Foundation and Island Press, offers a framework for thinking about the critical role that U.S. cities have in mitigating the impacts of climate change and explores how urban areas can anticipate and plan for turbulent times brought on by drastic changes in the physical environment.
Download the full report here.
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Omaha Municipal Land Bank
Omaha, NE
The founding Executive Director will assemble their own team, in part to compliment the particular skills and knowledge he or she brings to the task. However, the Executive Director must be a proven leader with an entrepreneurial spirit. The position requires the Executive Director be well versed in finance, real estate, accounting, management and public relations.
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York
New York, NY
The Bank's Outreach and Education Function engages, empowers, and educates the public in the Second District. Our outreach mission furthers the Bank's commitment to the region by listening to the communities we serve and leveraging our unique attributes to positively impact them.
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Transit Equity Network/Gamaliel
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
Cornerstone Partnership
Opportunity Agenda
HACBED
National Housing Institute
Housing Assistance Council
CFED
ACLU Maryland
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
George Washington Univesity
Housing Assistance Council
Appalachian State University
San Francisco Community
Land Trust
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