Behind the Scenes of NCRC's Gentrification Report

In This Issue: A New Report on Gentrification ● Community Spaces that Heal ● Shifting our Thinking on "Rural" ● Also: Jobs ● Industry News ● Shelter Shorts ● Resources +

Week of August 12 In This Issue: A New Report on Gentrification ● Community Spaces that Heal ● Shifting How We Think About Rural Coverage ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Industry News ● Resources + Shifting Our Thinking About Rural Coverage Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce While it’s true that rural areas have different needs, contexts, and challenges, so do hot-market and Rust Belt cities, central cities and inner-ring suburbs. As such, it was time to shift our thinking so rural areas were more clearly part of the fold. Read Editor's Note Informal Gathering Spaces for Healing Community Trauma Abena Asare, Prevention Institute Healing spaces can address trauma associated with exposure to violence, poverty, substance misuse, and other complex issues. Does your community offer these kinds of spaces for residents? . . . Read Full Article Behind the Scenes of NCRC's Gentrification Report Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce A conversation with a National Community Reinvestment Coalition senior research analyst about the organization's report on gentrification, what its findings show and don’t show, and what the policy implications might be. Read Full Article Shelter Shorts—the Week in Community Development Shelterforce Staff Los Angeles Reaches Historic Settlement with HUD | Austin's Innovative Affordable Housing Strategy | Report Finds NYC Arts Orgs Need More Diversity | Another HUD Fight on the Horizon | What We're Reading | 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! Industry News Eileen Fitzgerald will be leaving her role as president and CEO of Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF) to become head of Housing Affordability Philanthropy at the Wells Fargo Foundation on Sept. 30. Fitzgerald had been president and CEO since 2014. Prior to SAHF, Fitzgerald had been CEO and COO of NeighborWorks America. Andrea Ponsor was appointed interim president and chief executive officer at SAHF by its board last week. Ponsor has been with the organization since 2016 serving as its COO and EVP for Policy. Mary Anne Carter was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 12th chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts on Aug. 1. Carter had served as acting chairman of the Arts Endowment since June 2018, following 18 months as the agency’s senior deputy chairman. Prior to her positions at the NEA, Carter worked for former Florida governor Rick Scott overseeing budget and policy, and as a director at the Heritage Foundation. Resources The Urban Institute's technical paper, Affordable Housing Investment: A Guide for Nonprofit Hospitals and Health Systems, is designed to help nonprofit hospitals and heath systems understand how their institutional assets and prestige can support affordable housing development projects and provide practical information on how they can start investing in affordable housing. To access the report, click here. Climate change brings much more than melting icebergs and heat waves; it destroys affordable housing. In their new report, A Perfect Storm: Extreme Weather as an Affordable Housing Crisis Multiplier, the Center for American Progress offers five policy recommendations to shield communities from extreme weather. Read more about them here. We only list free events and resources of national interest. To learn about advertising, click here. You Said It! On It Doesn't Matter if Your Neighborhood is Eventually Going to Gentrify Storm Cunningham: The dialogue about gentrification will never evolve as long as articles like this one continue to use “gentrification” as if it were . . . Read More Debby Warren: This is the best resource I’ve seen for giving advocates, developers and organizers a clear perspective on and approach to gentrification. Thank you Shelterforce and Miriam Axel-Lute . . . Read More Larry Sheehy: [Love] Shelterforce magazine and web posts! Thank you all for your excellent coverage of housing and community development issues! . . . Via Facebook On Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—July 19 Gregory D. Squires: These people are at no risk of losing their jobs because of their political preferences. They simply believe. Why should that not be the case for most . . . Read More On How to Temper the Influence of Private Equity in Manufactured Housing Jerry Rioux: Let’s hope that those super low cap rates also entice developers to build new parks including . . . Read More On "You're Not Colored:" The Story of Two Civil Rights Activists of Japanese Descent @LauraChoi23: Multiracial coalitions are more important than ever in the fight for #racialequity. Was privileged to hear these amazing men during @CAPACD conference. Via Twitter Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... In Case You Missed It Generating Civic Power in North Philadelphia The Collaboration Behind California's Successful Statewide Ballot Campaign for Housing Can Using a Racial Equity Lens Increase Capital in Communities of Color? Interview with Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance  Participatory Budgeting: Why Not Fix Everyone's Sink? Community Land Trusts in the Age of Climate Change Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! 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