The Rent's Not Really That High

In This Issue: Winning Tax Levies for Affordable Housing Can Make Inequality Worse ● The Rent's Not Really That High ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events +

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 In This Issue: Winning Tax Levies for Affordable Housing Can Make Inequality Worse ● The Rent's Not Really That High ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + The Rent's Not Really That High Alan Mallach, Center for Community Progress Being priced out of appreciating neighborhoods is not the housing affordability problem most Americans face. But they are facing one. Read Full Article Winning Tax Levies for Affordable Housing Can Make Inequality Worse Marty Kooistra, Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County In Washington state, the dilemma for housing advocates is how to ask city and county elected officials to significantly increase public resources for housing when the only current choices are regressive tax tools. Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff This week: Attacking Homelessness with Health Data | Cali Upzoning Bill Asks More of the Burbs | Livable City Rankings Declare Affordability Top Priority (!) | Yes, You Can Be Pro-Housing and Anti-Displacement | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Industry News Prosperity Now has announced a new broad-based political organizing initiative, Liberation in a Generation, which aims to advance economic liberation for people of color. This new, independent organization will be co-led by Jeremie Greer, Prosperity Now’s outgoing vice president of policy and research, and Solana Rice, our outgoing director of state and local policy. Greer and Rice will become co-executive directors of Liberation in a Generation. The NYU Furman Center announced the appointment of Matt Murphy as its new executive director. He will join the Furman Center on April 15 after an eight-year stint in city government, where he currently serves as deputy commissioner for the office of policy and strategy with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Events Tuesday, April 2, 2 p.m EST | Blueprint for Changemakers: Achieving Health Equity | This webinar will review a new report released by ChangeLab Solutions, A Blueprint for Changemakers: Achieving Health Equity Through Law & Policy — a resource that presents legal strategies and best practices to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities improve health outcomes. The Blueprint provides a roadmap for working locally and collaboratively to advance laws and policies that will help ensure that everyone has a fair chance to live a healthy life. To learn how you can use Blueprint, Register here. Opportunities Community-engaged artists will be able to apply for an Enterprise Rose Fellowship. Successful artist-applicants will be partnered for two years with a local nonprofit organization in one of the following cities to develop and grow creative approaches to improve lives in low-income communities: Austin, Texas, Los Angeles; or Salem, Massachusetts. Successful architect-applicants will join organizations in Boston; Mission, South Dakota; New York City; Providence, Rhode Island; or Wayne, West Virginia.  Learn more here. Resources This mapping tool developed by the Local Solutions Support Center brings together research from Grounded Solutions Network, the Partnership for Working Families, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and the Urban Law Center, to document state preemption of inclusive and equitable local housing policies.The map focuses on four critical areas of policy: protections against source-of-income discrimination, the regulation of short-term rentals, inclusionary housing programs, and rent control. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... You Said It! On Tiny House Villages in Seattle: An Efficient Response to Our Homelessness Crisis MJ Boyle: It will be interesting to see, in a year or two, how much these tiny houses really cost. What is NOT being figured in here is the cost of maintenance to the homes themselves, and the cost of pest control. (If these homes get bed bugs, they’ll need to be demolished.) These tiny structures require CONSTANT attention and un-addressed moisture issues will quickly affect quality of life. I will admit I am not a huge fan of these “tiny houses” being use as homeless structures mainly because… Read More frank: Studyies have been done that prove housing a homeless person is actually cheaper then putting them into a shelter system. And tiny houses are even cheaper. Plus they are a step closer to home ownership. A huge step for some onebeaten down by circumstances and the system. It could restore… Read More On YIMBY, White Privilege, and the Soul of Our Cities yawn: There’s no arguments in this article that are incompatible with an understanding of YIMBY that is nuanced and comes from good faith. But this article is neither. Both sides of this anti-debate need to get over themselves and realize they have way more in common than not. Because… Read More On Ignore the Myth—Voters *Do* Rally for Housing Lou Tisler: It’s way past time, but not too late, to create, fund and implement a national policy addressing housing and housing affordability that is adoptable, and adaptable, to local, state and regional needs. If you want to improve health, education and economic equity outcomes, then… Read More On Can Estate Planning be Used to Help Preserve Economic Assets in Low-Income Communities? Eric A Schertzing: This article has led to some very good discussions. I contract with our Community Action Agency and Legal Aid to help homeowners prevent property tax foreclosure. The success has been very powerful, but we have much work to do with estates. Thank you for the thoughtful piece. Now we need… Read More On Houston, It’s Time to Stop Accommodating Segregation Expert CostSeg: Government-approved segregation cannot be allowed to continue. It’s well past time for Houston to stop accommodating racial prejudice. Thanks for sharing. Read More In Case You Missed It Why We Must First Be Well Before We Can Do the Work of the People CDFIs Stepped Up During the Shutdown Public Land Should be Used for Public Good Putting Health Care Dollars to Work Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! Jobs Director of Real Estate Development ● Home City Development Inc. seeks a strong, experienced, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial real estate professional to manage a large pipeline of on-going and potential real estate projects in Western Massachusetts. We are a mission-based, non-profit dedicated to building better neighborhoods... Read Full Listing Program Fellow ● Enterprise is seeking a Program Fellow to primarily work with the Connected Communities Team in the Northern California office to advance our regional program and policy work. This work includes research, data analysis, communications, technical assistance, and grants and contracts administration. Our regional work aims to... Read Full Listing Fellowship for Democratizing Disaster Planning, Recovery and Resilience ● Enterprise seeks a talented individual to join the San Francisco market office as a Senior Fellow in Democratizing Disaster Recovery and Resilience The Fellow must be a creative problem solver with excellent organizational skills, the ability to create collaborations, work independently, attention to detail, a willingness to take a leadership role, and... Read Full Listing Program Director - Cultural Resilience ● Enterprise is seeking a Cultural Resilience Program Director. The ideal candidate will be an experienced creative practitioner with cross-disciplinary expertise in placemaking, social determinants of health, community development, cultural anthropology, participatory research or community-engaged... Read Full Listing Director of Field Building ● The Build Healthy Places Network is seeking a creative and equity-focused strategist with exceptional writing, research, and networking skills to lead our national field building operation through communications, engagement, and surveillance/learning of national trends in... Read Full Listing Vice President of Property Operations ● The primary responsibility of the Vice President of Property Operations is to ensure that all residents have a safe, clean, well-managed and affordable home while operating each building at maximum efficiency. Additionally, Capitol Hill Housing is committed to creating opportunities for residents to succeed. Ensuring the... Read Full Listing Housing Director ● The Athens Land Trust seeks a Housing Director to oversee development of affordable housing projects, the marketing of these projects, the preparation of eligible candidates to purchase ALT homes, and maintain the financial stability of all housing related programming... Read Full Listing Vice President for Housing Policy ● The Vice President for Housing Policy provides leadership and strategic direction for the Housing Policy team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), working collaboratively with team members to develop and execute a policy agenda on a wide range of issues affecting... Read Full Listing Senior Project Manager ● The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) seeks a Senior Project Manager to perform a wide variety of tasks related to planning and developing affordable housing for TNDC. The Senior Project Manager coordinates and implements all activities relating to project development from... Read Full Listing Click here to post a job! More Jobs Director of Development ● Seventy Five North Revitalization Corp. Director of Housing Counseling and Economic Opportunity ● Piedmont Housing Alliance Executive Director ● Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Center For Neighborhoods Executive Director ● Center For Neighborhoods Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Senior Editor/Development Manager, Keli A. 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