Affordable Housing is Hiding in Plain Sight

In This Issue: HUD Finally Puts a Landlord on Notice ● Vouchers Approved for Housing After Foster Care ● Opinion: Affordable Housing is Hiding in Plain Sight ● Shelter Shorts ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events +

Week of Monday, July 29 In This Issue: HUD Finally Puts a Landlord on Notice ● Vouchers Approved for Housing After Foster Care ● Opinion: Affordable Housing is Hiding in Plain Sight ● Shelter Shorts ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events + Opinion: Affordable Housing is Hiding in Plain Sight Paul Brophy, Brophy and Reilly LLC; Carey Shea, Home by Hand Inc. Two former HUD secretaries recently wrote about the need for states and municipalities to increase production of affordable housing. While important, there are other housing affordability strategies that we must not forget, including . . . Read Full Article HUD Finally Puts a Landlord on Notice Sandy Rollins, Texas Tenants’ Union Landlords aren’t supposed to retaliate against their tenants, but organized residents who repeatedly make repair demands know those rules aren’t being followed. However, HUD finally issued its first-ever violation to a landlord for interfering with a residents’ right to organize. What’s needed now are . . . Read Full Article Vouchers Approved for Housing After Foster Care John Kelly, The Chronicle of Social Change How did a group of former foster youths and advocates convince top federal housing officials to support housing for people exiting foster care? Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff 3 Million Households Taken Off of SNAP? | Social Workers and Libraries Go Together | Land Theft in the Black Community | Basic Income for Newark Residents | And More Quick Takes From Our Editors Rolls up better than your computer, opens faster than your smartphone, instant power on, works anywhere you go! Subscribe to Shelterforce in print! Shelterforce, the original voice of community development! You Said It! On Prioritizing Inclusion and Equity in the Next Generation of Mixed-Income Communities Amy Khare: We look forward to sharing more essays with you and others through Shelterforce. I definitely agree that mixed-income strategies fall within the market-based framework that most housing policies (LIHTC, Inclusionary Housing/Zoning, Vouchers) rely on, and thus are suspect to be implemented in ways that . . . Read More On Can Including Rent and Utility Payments in Credit Scores Reduce Racial Disparities in Lending? Katrina Harold: Having a hard time with this as credit score is not predictive of renters’ ability to pay rents but also tends to be the same barriers renter’s face when trying to secure rental housing (higher security deposits, out-right denials). This is problematic because in some instances people’s credit went bad when they had to prioritize rent payment over credit card scores, etc. Including rental . . .  Read More Alex Tabor: I completely agree about credit scores being a pressing obstacle for many trying to secure affordable rental housing, but is one’s credit score not, at least in significant part, a reflection of the individual’s historic ability to pay for expenses they incurred? I understand how prioritizing rent payments over credit card bills might hurt individuals by . . . Read More Nerdletta Erdlettanay: Really?!?! Considering the fact that the majority of renters across the country are cost burdened, most living paycheck to paycheck how does adding rent and utility payments not make things even worse for folks who have to . . . Via Facebook Brandon Brezic: Evictions already show up on background reports, and if they send you to collections it’s on your credit credit report... why not let the positive monthly recurring payments boost credit scores? Via Facebook Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... In Case You Missed It The Other Emergency at the Border Nonprofit Centers: Hubs for Connection and Collaboration Connecting the City’s Social Services to Help At-Risk Populations A Hole in our Vision: Race, Gender, and Justice in Community Development  The Connection Between Water, Justice, and Health Q: Why Doesn’t the Market Produce Enough Affordable Housing Where People Want it?  El Caño Vive, La Lucha Sigue! Community-Controlled Land in Puerto Rico Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! 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