ShelterForce: Redlining Returns in CRA Reform Proposal

In this Issue: Redevelopment That Preserves Cultural Heritage ● Using Ride-Hailing Services to Get Patients to Their Doctors ● Redlining Would Be Revived Under CRA Reform Proposal ● Tiny Houses—Not a Big Enough Solution

Week of January 13 In this Issue: Redevelopment That Preserves Cultural Heritage ● Using Ride-Hailing Services to Get Patients to Their Doctors ● Redlining Would Be Revived Under CRA Reform Proposal ● Tiny Houses—Not a Big Enough Solution ● Also: Jobs ● In Case You Missed It + Redlining Would Be Revived Under CRA Reform Proposal Frank Woodruff, NACEDA In an attempt to make compliance easier for banks, regulators are proposing to incentivize the very thing the Community Reinvestment Act was written to fight. Read Full Article Please Tell Us! Inform Shelterforce Coverage on CRA Reform Is your community development work funded, or your projects financed, by CRA-regulated entities? Please answer our 2-minute survey here. Using Ride-Hailing Services to Get Patients to Their Doctors Amanda Abrams, Shelterforce Health care providers and insurers, including Medicaid, are trying out new transportation models that could vastly benefit their patients—and their bottom lines. Here are some of the ups and downs. Read Full Article Redevelopment That Preserves Cultural Heritage Johanna Gilligan, Homewise Inc. Preserving and fortifying longstanding culture is key to social cohesion in a community. How can we make sure it’s given equal priority when planning for and funding redevelopment? Read Full Article Tiny Houses—Not a Big Enough Solution Miles Howard, Shelterforce Tiny houses are a step up from shelter beds, but are they also a distraction from real, obvious solutions to our homelessness epidemic? Read Full Article Events Friday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m. ET | The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies will release America’s Rental Housing 2020, a new report discussing the rental affordability crisis in America. The release will be held at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, and will also be live-streamed. Register here. We only list free events and resources of national interest. To learn about advertising, click here. You Said It On “Protecting the Community Reinvestment Act Is an Investment in Economic Justice” Sheryll Cashin: This is disturbing but standard for a Trump administration that has been gutting civil rights laws that were designed to fight redlining and housing discrimination in black and brown communities. A policy built on lies and damn lies. Via Twitter Kimberly Toskey: This is disheartening! The CRA forced banks to provide services, invest funds and give grants to people and projects within the community that otherwise were ignored! Via LinkedIn On “Why Voters Haven’t Been Buying the Case for Building” Steve S.: North Broad in Philadelphia is the example I’m most familiar with, but Brush Park in Detroit is the most iconic example. In both cases, however, we’re looking at neighborhoods built for the very rich that experienced extreme downfiltering—that is, they became . . . Read More Hcat: . . . I live in an area where people literally buy a house and then take it down and put in what they want instead. Read More Elizabeth Alley: This is a great article. Let’s move beyond Econ 101 and get effective and honest in our aim to ameliorate housing affordability. Via Twitter On “Whose Affordable Housing Crisis?” Stanley Hirtle: Isn’t the biggest problem inadequate and contingent incomes by those on the bottom and increasingly the middle of the income spectrum? As robots do more and more people become interchangeable and . . . Read More On “YIMBYs: Friend, Foe, or Chaos Agent?” Mina: Writing from Durham, N.C.–This is the ironic thing about housing justice movements; they’re virtually non-existent in the places where they’d make the most difference, where development is only starting to . . . Read More On “Reagan’s Legacy: Homelessness in America” Merylynne Hern: Well-said. I was homeless for a time and know the treatment of the homeless has to change. I know that our shelter and post-housing needs to change. I see a few towns now providing . . . Read More On “It Doesn’t Matter if Your Neighborhood Is Going to Eventually Gentrify” Juan Manuel del Rio: As long as housing becomes mainly a commodity, disconnected from the neighbors, neighborhood, and shelter or “housing first,” the milkers/flippers will destroy the fabric of society to earn a buck. Vulture economics is what I call this trend. Via LinkedIn Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... In Case You Missed It Battling Inequity in Food Systems with Entrepreneurship Protecting the Community Reinvestment Act is an Investment in Economic Justice The Ticket to Opportunity  Sitting on a Porch Can Be Good for Your Health The Guadalupe Neighborhood in Austin: 40 Years of Pushing Back Against Displacement Jobs Communications Specialist, Grounded Solutions Network, Flexible Location ● Grounded Solutions Network seeks a Communications Specialist to implement a variety of communications activities for our organization, including the development of social media and newsletter content, outreach, events, and public engagement. The ideal candidate will . . . Read Full Listing Customer Success Specialist, Grounded Solutions Network, Remote ● The ideal candidate will possess excellent writing, organizational and problem-solving skills and experience or interest in implementing a broad array of communications activities including the development of social media and newsletter content, public affairs, outreach, events, and . . . Read Full Listing Housing Production Analyst (Analyst III), City of Portland, Portland, OR ● The City of Portland Housing Bureau (PHB) is seeking a Housing Production Analyst who will report to the Deputy Director. The Housing Production Analyst is part of PHB’s Housing Production Team whose goal is to increase the number of rental and homeownership units . . . Read Full Listing Project Developer I or II, Mercy Housing Southeast, Atlanta, GA ● Mercy Housing seeks a Project Developer I or II to perform tasks associated with the finance, development, and acquisition of affordable, multi-family housing. The Project Developer will Review sites or projects for potential development of new construction, complexes for potential . . . Read Full Listing Click here to post a job! More Jobs Director of Finance, Detroit, MI ● Housing Partnership Network Chief Financial Officer, Detroit, MI ● Housing Partnership Network Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Senior Editor, Keli A. 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