Can Health Insurance Pay for Housing?

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Also: Despite What Bankers Say, Data Is Indispensable ● Developers: Organize Your Residents for 2018 ● Job Listings, Events, More . . . Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Events Renter Nation Online Tenant Union Organizing Training | May 25, 8 p.m. EDT Episode 4 of Right to the City's online Renter Nation training series will feature organizers and members from City Life/Vida Urbana, Inqulinxs Unidxs por Justicia, and Tenants Union of Washington State to discuss how to organize a tenants union and conduct a tenants rights campaign. Register here and view recordings of past trainings here. Social Determinants of Health Through a Cultural Lens at People and Places 2017 | National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations | May 31 - June 2 Shelterforce publisher Harold Simon will moderate a panel of three leaders in bridging the gap between health care and community development in communities of color. The conference will include 35 sessions and 100 speakers. Click here to learn more. Dialogue4Health | Build Power for Health Equity: Strategic Practices for Local Health Departments | June 1, 1 p.m. EDT How can local health departments effectively advance health equity? And how should they work with community groups (and vice versa) to do so? Join this webinar, hosted by the Public Health Institute, for a discussion on strategic health equity practices. Webcast and In-Person Meeting | HUD: A New Era of Homeownership | June 1 at 2 p.m. EDT Joel Kan, Mortgage Bankers Association; Christie Peale, Center for NYC Neighborhoods; Jon Spader, Harvard JCHS; and Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors, will discuss the recent housing crisis and its impact on consumer behavior with a focus on the challenges millennial purchasers face. Registration and further info here. Subscribe to  It's free! Click here!  Help support the voice of community development  Your Voice! California Considers a New Health Treatment for the Homeless: a Home Pauline Bartolone, Kaiser Health News Can health insurance pay for housing? If this proposal passes, it would not only pay for itself, but also . . . More Despite What Bankers Say, Data Is Indispensable Josh Silver, NCRC In a recent white paper, the American Bankers Association maintains that the CFPB overstepped its boundaries when it implemented data enhancements to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act mandated by Dodd-Frank. Full of rhetoric, the paper makes a number of unfounded allegations . . . More Developers: Organize Your Residents for 2018 Michael Bodaken and Ellen Lurie Hoffman, National Housing Trust If you think that housing your residents was all you needed to do with them, think again . . . More In Case You Missed It Trump's Upside-Down Plan: Tax Cuts Come at the Expense of Working Families Lots of Maps, Little Insight in Richard Florida's Latest How to Get $2 Billion for Affordable Homes Entrenched Poverty, Juxtaposed Against Occasional Pockets of Progress You Said It! On High Cost of Affordable Housing Is Not CDCs' Fault Amen! These deals are tough to put together and cannot be compared with private market deals. Usually they're trying to solve a social, environmental, and justice issue while facing political opposition with . . . --Nate Lichti, more Thanks for addressing this! Private developers often note their lower per-unit costs but a key reason is that housing built with public dollars necessarily includes requirements such as . . .  --Randy Shaw, more Looking for a Job? Senior Manager, Federal Policy Working with national partners and coalitions, coordinates meetings with representatives, federal agencies, and more, keeping track of legislation and regulatory changes that will affect the mission of . . . Read Full Listing Senior Manager, Communications Develops and manages communications activities that promote, enhance, and protect NALCAB's brand reputation, and is responsible for a range of public relations activities relative to the strategic direction . . . Read Full Listing Housing and Facilities Program Manager Oversees the effective development of housing and community facilities for our project sponsors, and is responsible for the development of multi- and single-family housing and community . . . Read Full Listing Chief Housing Operations Officer Oversees property and asset management, and works in partnership with CEO and senior leadership team to increase CHP's scope and impact in providing high-quality housing to formerly homeless people . . . Read Full Listing Housing Policy and Development Manager Will provide support for the predevelopment of ABI-owned real estate for affordable workforce housing, manage RFPs, coordinate stakeholders for the benefit of equitable development . . . Read Full Listing President and Chief Executive Officer Will provide strategic leadership, working collaboratively to execute a vision for West Louisville. Will inspire and demonstrate the intellectual depth to communicate the aspirations of a community's . . . Read Full Listing More Job Listings Associate Project Manager, Fenway CDC Assistant General Manager, Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department Senior Real Estate Project Manager, Codman Square NDC Senior Director of Programs, Centro Campesino in South Florida Executive Director, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services Does your organization want to post a job ad? Click here to learn how! In This Issue Events In Case You Missed It You Said It! 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