Housing Vouchers for All Is Possible

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Also: Economic Anxiety Is Not Just for White Workers ● After 2 Decades, Justice Was Finally Served ● Lisa Mensah, USDA Rural Development

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Webinar | Community Catalyst | Aging in Place: Integrating Health and Housing for Low-Income and Chronically Ill Seniors | Dec. 1, 1 p.m. ET

This webinar will provide an overview of initiatives related to aging in place for low-income and chronically ill seniors. Speakers across sectors will address housing issues and more effective integration of housing and health care systems.

Webinar | National Low Income Housing Coalition | The Changing Post-Election Landscape for Affordable Housing | Dec. 2, 1 p.m. ET

NLIHC President and CEO, Diane Yentel, will provide an overview of the work needed to move affordable housing policy in this new political landscape. Read more about what to expect under the new administration here and register for the webinar here.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Being grateful for what we have may be difficult given recent events and the troubling times ahead. But, in between arguments with your uncle and eating way too much, take a moment to think about what Howard Zinn once wrote:

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. ...If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. ...And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

So rest Thursday and be thankful for all the victories you've had -- small and large -- as we are thankful for all the work you do.

It's Not Just the White Working Class with Economic Anxiety

Tracey Ross, PolicyLink

A familiar narrative has emerged in which the media, politicians, and even people living on the coasts have failed to understand the economic anxieties of the white working class, how factories moving overseas has crippled small towns, or how rural America -- "real America" -- has been forgotten. And yet there have been no calls to . . . More

Yes, We Can Give Housing Vouchers to All Who Need Them

Michael Bodaken and Ellen Lurie Hoffman, National Housing Trust

A renter household that used a Section 8 voucher in 2015 had waited more than two years on average to move into a unit, with the wait time in the San Diego metro area as long as seven years. These numbers are deplorable, but it doesn't have to be this way . . . More

Lisa Mensah, Under Secretary for Rural Development, USDA

Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce

Touching on jobs, climate change, and housing, Lisa Mensah stresses the reasons why we shouldn't leave rural communities behind, discusses how they are similar to their urban counterparts, and explains how a government field agency with an ever-shrinking staff gets its work done . . . More

After Two Decades, Justice Was Finally Served

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, City University of New York

New Communities Inc. was a 6,000-acre cooperative farm that was the largest African-American owned parcel of land in the U.S. in the late 1960s, and is considered the first modern land trust in the U.S. Sabotaged by white supremacists -- in government and out -- and forgotten by most, today . . . More

You Said It!

Housing Doesn't Filter, Neighborhoods Do

This claim that neighborhoods filter all at once is hogwash. My first owned home in Austin was a condominium unit in Old West Austin, just about the most expensive urban neighborhood in the city. The single-family houses there were going for . . . --Mike Dahmus, more

Homeownership Is a Culprit in The Racial Wealth Divide

While homeownership, to the extent that lower income and minorities can do it, may tie people to underwater homes in areas that are deserts for jobs, food and schools, the alternative is rental from either local slum landlords or multinational hedge funds that bought up all the . . . --Stan Hirtle, more

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