Injecting Racial Equity into a St. Louis Election

Rent Control Is at a Turning Point ● Helping At-Risk Homeowners Stay Put With a Land Trust ● Injecting Racial Equity into a St. Louis Election ● Social Justice in Asset Based Community Development ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events +

Week of Monday, April 29 In This Issue: Rent Control Is at a Turning Point ● Helping At-Risk Homeowners Stay Put With a Land Trust ● Injecting Racial Equity into a St. Louis Election ● Let’s Get Explicit: Social Justice in Asset Based Community Development ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + Injecting Racial Equity into a St. Louis Election Jenny Connelly-Bowen, Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis; David Dwight, Forward Through Ferguson; Nancy Cambria and Michelle Witthaus, Health Equity Works Ten St. Louis organizations worked together to pin down mayoral candidates on concrete questions about racial equity—but first they had come to consensus on what issues to focus on . . .  Read Full Article Helping At-Risk Homeowners Stay Put With a Land Trust Amanda Abrams, Shelterforce For some homeowners at risk of losing their home due to a medical crisis, divorce, or unexpected repair costs, City of Lakes Community Land Trust has been able to keep them in place by bringing their home into the land trust. How does it work, and can it be replicated? Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff This week: Gentrification Tales | Sexual Health in Rural Places | Housing Policy | Opportunity Zones Update | Union Strike | Hoarding Resources | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Rent Control Is at a Turning Point Oksana Mironova, Writer and Researcher Advocates around the country now have current data on how rent control expansion would impact low-income, cost-burdened renters. Read Full Article Let’s Get Explicit: Social Justice in Asset Based Community Development Ron Dwyer-Voss and Indigo Bishop, DePaul University Asset Based Community Development is more compatible with a social justice agenda than traditional community development and community organizing. Here are four ABCD practices that support social justice frameworks. Read Full Article Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Events Wednesday, May 8, 2 p.m. ET | Myth Busters: Economics of Inclusionary Housing | Join Grounded Solutions Network in their webinar as they discuss how real estate economics are affected by inclusionary housing policies. Participants will be presented with the latest research on the economics of inclusionary housing and will have the chance to learn more from policy makers themselves. Learn more and register here. Opportunities The Center for Community Progress has issued a call for artists, arts organizations, design agencies, or similar entities in the Atlanta region to develop an interactive, temporary indoor arts and placemaking installation as part of the 2019 Reclaiming Properties Conference. Learn more and apply here. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... You Said It! On How Should We Measure Housing Affordability? Dani Aiello: Exactly the perspective I was looking for and of course it’s in @Shelterforce ❤️ Via Twitter On Can We Ditch Tax Incentives and Support True Economic Development? Ellen Shepard: The field of economic development is woefully devoid of proof points and common metrics. Of all of the areas of community development work, economic development seems to be the most likely to done on a deal-by-deal basis, with little strategy, and geared towards... Read More On Dear Business School Professors: You’re Wrong, Rent Control Works Herp Derp: “We find that rent control increased the probability a renter stayed at their address by close to 20 percent.” Well of course somebody who is fortunate enough to have a rent controlled apartment is going to stay there. Rent controlled tenants are paying below market prices on rent, why would they leave. “Rent stability” as it is called is not desirable. What is desirable is... Read More On A Hole in our Vision: Race, Gender, and Justice in Community Development Joyce Smith: I share your concern C. Jackson. I am also dismayed by the poor lack of representation in this field. Read More In Case You Missed It Who Most Needs Access to Core Neighborhoods? Arts, Culture, and Community Mental Health The Big Deal Between LISC and a Major Health Care System Decommodifying Housing Without Reproducing American Apartheid Fair Housing at 50: At the Root, It’s Still Race Over Place Help support Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! Jobs Executive Director ● The Board of Directors of South Park Inn seeks a dynamic professional with a collaborative leadership style, excellent communication skills and the passion and competence for engaged leadership both internally and with partners in the wider Hartford system of homeless services. The board seeks... Read Full Listing Executive Director ● The Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio is hiring its first full-time Executive Director. The Alliance was formed in 2015 to advocate for new local resources to address the crisis of 54,000 Franklin County, Ohio, households in or near poverty paying more than half of their income for... 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 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... Read Full Listing Click here to post a job! More Jobs Asset Manager ● The Planning Office for Urban Affairs Communications and Fundraising Manager ● The Planning Office for Urban Affairs Tenant Support Coordinator ● New Destiny Housing Real Estate Director ● Fenway CDC 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. 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 ● 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.