How to Fund Land Banks

In This Issue: Speaking Up On Race, Housing, and Opportunity in Minnesota ● Hospital System Helps Housing Partners Unlock Capital ● How to Fund Land Banks ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events +

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 In This Issue: Speaking Up On Race, Housing, and Opportunity in Minnesota ● Hospital System Helps Housing Partners Unlock Capital ● How to Fund Land Banks ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + How to Fund Land Banks Tarik Abdelazim, Center for Community Progress The number of land banks grew dramatically in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. So has our understanding of how to successfully fund them. Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff Shutdown Emergency | Paradise's Poor Planning | Gentrification Is Dangerous | When Bad Judgement Leads To A Promotion | "Gym Deserts" | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... Hospital System Helps Housing Partners Unlock Capital Alyia S.P. Gaskins, Center for Community Investment When plans to develop affordable housing units in San Bernardino hit a funding roadblock, Dignity Health committed a $1.2 million bridge loan to help fill the gap. But the health system didn’t stop there. Read Full Article Speaking Up On Race, Housing, and Opportunity in Minnesota Nelima Sitati Munene, African Career Education & Resource, Inc. What the remedy of moving people out of areas of concentrated poverty implies is that the dilution of poor people is the solution, and it absolves systems of coming up with solutions and strategies that will lift people out of poverty. When analysis is only on a spatial level… Read Full Article Events TODAY! Tuesday, Jan. 15, 4 p.m. ET | Impacts of the Government Shutdown on Affordable Housing and Community Development Programs | The partial government shutdown, now three weeks long, continues with no end in sight. Affordable housing programs and the low-income people they serve are already being negatively impacted. This call, sponsored by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, will provide information on the shutdown’s impacts on affordable housing and community development programs.  Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2 p.m. ET | Introduction to Permanently Affordable Homeownership—Part One | Communities across the country are trying to create policies that do more with less, balance individual benefits with community benefits, and make a dent in their local affordable housing needs. In this webinar, Grounded Solutions Network makes the case for permanently affordable homeownership and shares how you can adopt and customize these models to fit your community’s needs. Monday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. EST | What Really Works in Homelessness Prevention: Lessons from Literature and the Field | Presented by Abt Associates’ Center on Evidence-based Solutions to Homelessness, this webinar combines evidence with real-world insight. Practitioners from three communities will discuss their experience planning or implementing prevention activities, and how the evidence aligns with their work on the ground. Info or register here. Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! You Said It! On Eviction Lab Misses the Mark We should bring this discussion up as it relates to our water work. There are so many parallels in the fight with hero/savior academics who come to our communities, steal our narratives, take control of our data and the interpretation of it, and after trundling us out like polar bears, walk away with… —Paul Schwartz, more On 4 Reasons to Retire The Phrase “Inner City” I am from the “inner city” in New York. My success in numerous fields and in my entrepreneurial endeavors is in great part to my having been reared in that environment. I learned how to adapt to society and see things from various perspectives so I could innovate and cultivate. Knowing my address was on my job applications and it clearly indicated I was a product of the “inner city” I found … —Robert Roots, more In Case You Missed It Hey YIMBYs, Thanks for Listening The Dark Side of Single Family Rental Working Things Out With Your Artist Partners Transforming Vacant Land Into Community Assets Vermont’s SASH Program Keeps Seniors in Their Homes Decommodifying Housing Without Reproducing American Apartheid Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! Jobs External Relations Manager • The Center for NYC Neighborhoods seeks an individual who is driven to work for a mission-oriented organization and has the skills to expand our fundraising and income generation through the strategic use of impact storytelling, events, and other cultivation strategies. This is an exempt position that reports to… Read Full Listing Acquisitions Associate ● CDT forms joint ventures with experienced affordable housing operators to acquire and preserve existing income- and rent-restricted properties. The primary responsibility for the Acquisitions Associate will be to quickly analyze and underwrite potential investment opportunities and manage the evaluation and, in some cases, rehabilitation of existing… Read Full Listing Click here to post a job! More Jobs Executive Director ● South Florida Community Development Coalition Director of Real Estate Development ● Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Senior Editor/Development Manager, Keli A. Tianga Assistant Editor, Elizabeth Oguss Publisher, Harold Simon Assistant Publisher, Terri L. Clegg Made possible by the generous support of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● Kresge Foundation ● NeighborWorks America ● Kaiser Permanente ● Bank of America Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● PNC Bank Foundation ● Hyde and Watson Foundation ● Ocwen Financial Corporation ● Valley National Bank ...and with the support of readers like you. Shelterforce began in 1975 and is the oldest, national, independent, nonprofit community development publication in America. Whether you provide or support affordable housing, economic or workforce development, community organizing, arts and culture, community planning, health, or transportation, Shelterforce will help you do your work better tomorrow than yesterday.