Delink Homeownership from Asset Building

Can We Ditch Tax Incentives and Support True Economic Development? ● Racial Diversity in Community Development Leadership ● Time to Delink Homeownership from Asset Building ● Preserving Affordable Housing ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events +

Week of Monday, April 8 In This Issue: Can We Ditch Tax Incentives? ● Racial Diversity in Community Development Leadership ● Time to Delink Homeownership from Asset Building ● Preserving Affordable Housing by Buying, Not Building ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + Time to Delink Homeownership from Asset Building Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce Using homeownership as an asset-building mechanism and retirement plan might not be a great thing for our society. Read More Racial Diversity in Community Development Leadership: A Roundtable Discussion on the Field’s Past, and Its Future Shelterforce Staff Over the past two years, several national community development organizations have experienced leadership changes, and gone from being led by white CEOs to CEOs of color. Shelterforce convened some of them for a candid conversation about the field’s struggles with race. Read Full Article Preserving Affordable Housing by Buying, Not Building Tanner Howard, Freelance Writer Two organizations are quietly furthering income integration in higher-income Chicago neighborhoods without new development. Read Full Article Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Your Community? Your Work? Shelterforce Staff Help Shelterforce with future coverage by telling us how in this simple four-question survey. Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff This week: Homelessness Is a National Emergency | Doctors Don’t Quite Get It | Gentrification Doesn’t Stand a Chance | This Hospital Pays a Living Wage | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Can We Ditch Tax Incentives and Support True Economic Development? Steve Dubb, Nonprofit Quarterly Are we slowly (but finally) coming to see the folly in throwing tax breaks at corporations? Read Full Article Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Events Tuesday, April 9, 2 p.m EST | Optimizing Health Literacy Programs: Innovative Strategies From the Field (Part 2) | In this second webinar in Community Science’s health literacy series, innovative strategies to address challenges with implementing health literacy programs in underserved communities will be discussed. This interactive webinar will demonstrate how song and video are used to communicate key health messages, and how project funds can be maximized by using local newspapers to communicate prevention messages to difficult-to-access rural and urban communities. Register here. Industry News Sabrina Baptiste has become the chief administrative officer of the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF). In her new role, Baptiste will oversee LIIF’s human resources, information technology, and administration teams. She was formerly LIIF’s human resources director. Amy Brown joined NRDC in January as the director of the food and agriculture program where she works to ensure that food systems prioritize public health, community sovereignty, and environmental protection. Prior to joining NRDC, Brow was a senior program officer at the Ford Foundation. Giles Coates has become the new chief financial officer of LIIF. Coates was previously the global head of finance and accounting for FINCA Impact Finance. Prior to FINCA, he worked at Capital One, where he served as CFO of the commercial real estate business and CFO of the community development finance business. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... You Said It! On Single-Family Subsidies Are Needed Outside Hot Markets Stella J Adams: Unfortunately, the FRB, FHA, and GSEs had an opportunity to provide deep subsidies to the single-family market out of the great recession when there was an abundance of foreclosed properties and instead they offered those deep subsidies (30 cents on the dollar) to wall street investors and created the for-profit SFR market that is exploiting… Read More Barbara Samuels: A good proposal, but if we really want to stretch beyond “narrowly targeted neighborhoods,” and help black and brown people build wealth, it should not be restricted to high poverty census tracts. There is a huge unmet need for affordable homeownership (and rentals) in areas where job growth is occurring and property values are rising. As we know… Read More On Fearing Privatization: Public Housing Activists Push Back Against RAD Plans Lin Sod: Russ and Horwich in Minneapolis are not showing sensitivity or concern for multi cultural language needs in oral or written presentations UNLESS OR UNTIL the community demands translations and enlargements. That one aspect demonstrates their blatant disregard as an ignoring of community’s needs. Of course people will lose their homes if… Read More Paul Driven: I found this article to be biased. The hope vi program was largely successful in integrating public housing into mixed income communities. We know public housing does not work when it isolated low income households. The RAD program is the best source for getting development dollars into public housing. Residents are guaranteed by federal law the right to... Read More On Economy Remix: Can We Ditch Tax Incentives and Support True Economic Development? Fernando Centeno: No, “true” economic development involves raising standards of living and quality of life impacts and outcomes, in real terms. Government does not exist to facilitate and subsidize the private sector, it exists to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, where needs are greatest. We are missing the boat big time... Read More On State Policies Play a Central Role in the Fight Against Vacant Property Craig Purcell: One would think the simplicity of market forces would be a key driver of success. Why not increased taxes for all vacant properties including (commercial) as they are damaging what surrounds them and sapping the vitality of the local neighborhood. Long term holders just waiting for the market to turn around would be incentivized to… Read More On YIMBY, White Privilege, and the Soul of Our Cities Bill Cunningham: All we hear now is about “affordable housing.” What I want to know is: what do you think about rent control? What do you think about public housing? I will definitely listen to a YIMBY or anyone else who is willing to stand up for those things... Read More In Case You Missed It The Connection Between Water, Justice, and Health Organizing for Water Security in Detroit Condemning Asthma, Not Homes in North Carolina The Two Vacancy Crises in America’s Cities Making a Pipeline for Vacant Building Rehab Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! Jobs 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 Executive Director ● Better Community Neighborhoods Inc. (BCN) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created as the result of a merger between two previously existing, well-established not-for-profits based in the City of Schenectady, New York, Better Neighborhoods Inc. and the Community Land Trust of Schenectady. BCN is focused on... Read Full Listing Program Coordinator – 2-Year Term ● The Kresge Foundation is seeking a Program Coordinator who is responsible for coordinating, planning, and implementing projects that span the foundation’s programs and learning activities. Projects may include learning and evaluation analysis, special projects, and/or departmental coordination and administrative support. Among other responsibilities, the role helps to coordinate, shape and...Read Full Listing Compliance & Monitoring Administrator ● The City of Memphis is seeking a Compliance and Monitoring Administrator who works under the general direction of the Senior Operations Administrator, overseeing the compliance and monitoring of all federal and other regulatory compliance requirements associated with Federal, State, or other grants, specifically those received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, including HOME, Community Development Block Grant ...  Read Full Listing Instructor of Community Development (Non-Tenure Track) ● The Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning is recruiting for a non-tenure track instructional faculty member in the area of Community Development. We seek candidates whose expertise complements the existing strengths of the faculty, and are especially interested in areas such as... Read Full Listing Director of Programs — Mile High Connects ● Mile High Connects is a broad collaborative of private, public, nonprofit organizations, and community leaders committed to ensuring that all residents of the Metro Denver region have access to affordable transit, affordable housing, and economic opportunity. The Director of Programs will collaborate with the Executive Director and senior leadership to develop and execute strategic direction and programs. Read Full Listing Director of Real Estate Development ● Home City Development Inc. is seeking 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 is seeking 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 Click here to post a job! More Jobs Executive Director ● Center for Neighborhoods Senior Staff Attorney ● New Economy Project Real Estate Development Coordinator ● Working In Neighborhoods Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Senior Editor/Development Manager, Keli A. 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