The 2016 Assets Learning Conference Videos Available For Streaming!
CFED has made videos from the ALC available on their YouTube channel for all plenaries, keynote speeches and special performances. Click here for a playlist of special sessions, or watch the full plenaries here.
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New report available from Trust for America's Health
TFAH's Blueprint for a Healthier America is now posted on its website. Issues addressed include achieving health equity, and healthy early childhood, students, and schools.
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ORGANIZE! Training Center | Writings by Mike Miller
Mike Miller, community organizer for the past 6 decades, and executive director of OTC, has just made nearly 100 of his articles, speeches, working papers, book chapters, and more available for download at no cost on his new website.
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Why Your Community Should Kick the Subsidy Habit
Michael H. Shuman, attorney, economist, and author
For more than a generation, many of us have reluctantly embraced corporate subsidies in distressed communities on the theory that attracting an outside company is better than none at all. Please. This is a fool's errand. More
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Top Racial Justice Leaders Give Post-Election Thoughts
Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce
At the Facing Race conference, leading racial justice activists had some perhaps surprising observations about the recent election, what it meant, and where we should go from here . . . More
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Don't Tell Us to "Just Move"
Bill Bynum, HOPE Credit Union
Unfortunately, when an area lacks jobs and access to services, a "just move people somewhere else" attitude is very common. What that attitude ignores is . . . More
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Land Banks, Land Trusts. Same Place, Same Time. Really.
Emily Thaden, Grounded Solutions Network, Kim Graziani, Center for Community Progress, and Annie Stup, The New School
Land banks and community land trusts (CLTs) are often perceived as tools that are not suited for the same environments. This is a myth. Here's why.
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CDFIs "Rethink" Systems, But (Hopefully) Not Identity
Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce
Community development financial institutions are being called upon to up their technological game and develop networks more skillfully. Both goals are important and should be completely possible without weakening the industry's social justice foundation. That doesn't mean there isn't danger, however, and a few moments at a recent national gathering of CDFIs were concerning . . . More
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For those of us "in the field", these are old conclusions; the problem is, we don't have a profession to represent what we know from experience. Instead, we have attorneys, pundits, and academics conveying these concerns, rather than those from practitioners in . . . --Fernando Centeno, more
Its not complicated. Where regulation is low, Ford Focus housing is more common. But expensive cities are stuck in a vicious circle: regulation makes . . . --M. Lewyn, more
The underlying problems have been decline in wages, the exploitation of debt as people seek to survive and maintain lifestyles, and the deregulation of consumer protection in the debt industry, including . . .
It's not 1950, so rather than pushing this failed mythology of home ownership as a ladder of asset development for everyone (I'm looking at you community development/housing agencies), let's become better advocates for . . . --Peter Rose, more
One response of the non-profit charitable community has been programs to provide financial and hands-on assistance to make repairs. The awareness of the need for this seems to be growing, with national organizations such as . . . --Bill Vandivier, more
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Executive Director
The executive director will lead the Affordable Housing, Property Management, Resident Services and Housing Choice Voucher aspects of Charter Oak Communities' . . . Read Full Listing
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Senior Manager
The Senior Manager will manage urban and rural programs created to build assets in communities across the country, with a focus on programs that support housing and . . . Read Full Listing
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Director of Resource Development
NJCC seeks a creative and dynamic individual for this Senior Management position, which is responsible for cultivating relationships with investors, overseeing impact assessment systems, providing strategic advice . . . Read Full Listing
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President
The President of the Partnership will create the annual work scope and operating budget, will work with governments, lenders, developers, housing advocates, and users to identify housing needs and meet those needs through . . . Read Full Listing
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Housing Choice Voucher Operations Manager
The successful candidate will coordinate marketing communications for HOC programs and properties; maintain strong relationship with media contacts, draft op-eds, letters-to-the-editor, blogs, articles and other opinion . . . Read Full Listing
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Senior Multifamily Underwriter
The HPM is responsible for compliance reporting, investigation and follow-up, development and implementation of corrective actions and overall quality control, implementing thorough client re-certifications . . . Read Full Listing
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Public Information Specialist
The successful candidate will coordinate marketing communications for HOC programs and properties; maintain strong relationship with media contacts, draft op-eds, letters-to-the-editor, blogs, articles and other opinion . . . Read Full Listing
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Housing Programs Manager
The HPM is responsible for compliance reporting, investigation and follow-up, development and implementation of corrective actions and overall quality control, implementing thorough client re-certifications . . . Read Full Listing
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Compliance Analyst
This position provides oversight and guidance on compliance issues such as policy, procedure, guideline, requirement development, and reviewing Standard Operating Procedures. Will insure that employees are adhering . . . Read Full Listing
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Policy Analyst
The PA will author reports and other materials, work with state and national policy and advocacy organizations to secure funding and policies to benefit low-income families and individuals, reduce housing instability and . . . Read Full Listing
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