Why Voters Haven’t Been Buying the Case for Building

In This Issue: Estate Planning Does Matter for Low-Income Communities ● Why Voters Haven't Been Buying the Case for Building ● Millennials and the Affordability Crisis ● CLT's in the Age of Climate Change ● Putting Health Care Dollars to Work

Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 In This Issue: Estate Planning Does Matter for Low-Income Communities ● Why Voters Haven't Been Buying the Case for Building ● Millennials and the Affordability Crisis: A Review of Generation Priced Out ● CLTs in the Age of Climate Change ● Taking Health Care Investments in Housing to the Next Level ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + Estate Planning Does Matter for Low-Income Communities Astrid Andre, New York Law School While estate planning may seem to be a tool of the wealthy, it can actually be used in low-income communities to combat the widening racial wealth gap. This can be done in several ways... Read Full Article Taking Health Care Investments in Housing to the Next Level Amanda Abrams, Shelterforce Health Fellow Efforts by health care providers and payers to address the social determinants of health have largely been piecemeal. But several organizations are working to coordinate these investments in ways that will allow... Read Full Article Why Voters Haven’t Been Buying the Case for Building Rick Jacobus, Street Level Urban Impact Advisors It’s not because they’re stupid. Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff This week: Green New Deal | Celebrities Build Affordable Homes—Sometimes | Rent Control | School Funding and Race | Dollar Store Proliferation | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Community Land Trusts in the Age of Climate Change Hortense Leon, Freelance Reporter With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts are taking on new roles and performing vital... Read Full Article Millennials and the Affordability Crisis: A Review of Generation Priced Out Reviewed by Steve Early, Journalist and Author According to Randy Shaw, author of Generation Priced Out, skyrocketing prices for all housing has created a generational divide, causing major political implications for... Read Full Article Events Wednesday, April 3, 3 p.m EST | Partners against Displacement: Community Land Trusts and Community Development | In this webinar, tied to LISC Research and Evaluation’s recent white paper on the topic, panelists from the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, the City of Lakes Community Land Trust, and the New Economy Project will reflect on ways that partnerships between the community development and community land trust sectors can help CLTs reach greater, and more sustainable, scale. Learn more and register here. Opportunities The BUILD Health Challenge will support up to 17 innovative U.S. collaboratives that include a community-based organization, hospital or health system and a public health department working together to address upstream challenges and drive sustainable improvements in community health. Each award includes up to $250,000 in funding over 2½ years, coaching and support services, training and capacity building, and more. Deadline is April 5, 2019, details here. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... You Said It! On Why Voters Haven’t Been Buying the Case for Building Michael G: There is no housing shortage in California. Housing is expensive in desirable places where people make a lot of money because the people with a lot money out-bid the people with less money who commute from further out. They in turn outbid those with... Read More Lala Blood: Maybe voters don’t believe in supply and demand because they’ve been told for the last 20 years that adding 7.5 million people to the state’s population doesn’t cause school crowding, doesn’t mean there’s more competition for jobs, and doesn’t cause rents to rise. So if all these things are true, then... Read More Drew Dresman: I love this. Thank you for working to fuse the politically feasible with the economically justifiable. I see a corollary in carbon pricing which has widespread economist support, but thus far seems to lack political traction due to concerns about fairness. My hope is... Read More guy #2: What exactly does it “luxury housing” mean? Here it sounds like you mean anything expensive, but in the Bay Area where I live most new apartments are expensive because they’re new and there’s a housing shortage. There’s nothing about the way they’re designed that should make them as expensive as they are. The same apartment in Texas would... Read More On YIMBYs: Friend, Foe, or Chaos Agent? Michael Lewyn: The article left me with the impression that many housing activists often behave immaturely, dividing the world into “100 percent allies” and “enemies.” We all need to realize that... Read More Chris: Beyond all that, my broader concern about painting YIMBYs as generally unconcerned—or at least only recently concerned—with anti-displacement and tenants rights, is that I’m not convinced that they were designed to overlap. What I mean is... Read More In Case You Missed It Medicaid Dollars for Housing YIMBYs: Friend, Foe, or Chaos Agent? Closing the Divide Between Fair and Affordable Housing After Redlining Are We Being Half-Hearted About Fighting Segregation? Housing Quality Is Key to Mental Health What We Don’t Know About Development and Displacement Mental Health and Community Development Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! Jobs Vice President for Housing Policy ● 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 Executive Director at NYU Furman Center ● The NYU Furman Center seeks a dynamic, energetic leader to serve as its Executive Director, helping to set the agenda for the Center, developing the best strategies for pursuing that agenda, and overseeing all aspects of the organization’s management. The ideal candidate will have experience in... Read Full Listing Director of Modernization and Development ● The Paterson Housing Authority (PHA) has an immediate opening for a highly motivated individual to lead the PHA’s Modernization & Development Department. This individual must possess a proven track record of prior Development/Modernization experience with development of affordable housing LIHTC, HUD and... Read Full Listing Assistant Director of Communications ● The Center for Community Investment is seeking a creative and curious self-starter with exceptional writing, editing and project management skills to develop, implement and steward our communications initiatives. Responsibilities will involve some writing, helping to shape key messaging and narratives, and a major effort to... Read Full Listing Director of Fund Development ● The Better Housing Coalition (BHA) Director of Fund Development is a strategic member of the External Affairs team and will oversee and advance BHC’s individual giving strategy, including annual fund, major gifts and planned gifts; enhance corporate and foundation relationships and grant strategy; and forecast endowment campaigns and... Read Full Listing Housing Advocacy Organizer ● NLIHC seeks a well-qualified housing advocacy organizer to join its field team. The housing advocacy organizer mobilizes NLIHC members and partners on federal policy advocacy based on NLIHC’s policy agenda, assists in the design and implementation of campaign field strategies, and... 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 Housing Counseling and Economic Opportunity ● Piedmont Housing Alliance Executive Director ● Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Center For Neighborhoods Executive Director ● Center For Neighborhoods Real Estate Asset Manager/Affordable Housing Real Estate Development ● DHIC Administrative Assistant - Salesforce ● Homestead Community Land Trust 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, Ana Sanchez Bachman 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. 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