(ShelterForce) Using Arts for Community Control

In This Issue: Struggling Restaurants Team Up with Community Orgs to Feed Low-Income Seniors ● How Engagement and Design Won Over Wary Neighbors ● Arts for Community Control: Planning an Arts and Innovation District Without Displacement ●

Week of Oct. 5 In This Issue: Struggling Restaurants Team Up with Community Orgs to Feed Low-Income Seniors ● How Engagement and Design Won Over Wary Neighbors ● Arts for Community Control: Planning an Arts and Innovation District Without Displacement ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It + Arts for Community Control: Planning an Arts District Without Displacement Penn Loh and Molly Kaviar, Tufts University Creative resident engagement in the planning of an arts district in Boston’s Upham’s Corner affects parts of the development process itself. Read Full Article How Engagement and Design Won Over Wary Neighbors David J. Thompson, Neighborhood Partners LLC Despite opposition from the neighborhood, a low-income housing community was built in an upscale subdivision in California. How did developers make it happen? Read Full Article Struggling Restaurants Team Up with Community Orgs to Feed Low-Income Seniors Nikki Kealalio Sutton, Little Tokyo Service Center The Little Tokyo Eats program has helped provide 5,300 meals from 11 local restaurants for seniors living in low-income housing in Los Angeles. How did the program make it through a rough first week of food fulfillment? Read Full Article Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... In Case You Missed It Why Opportunity Neighborhoods Aren’t Really for Everyone These Transit Agencies Want You to Build on Their Land  Three Local Policies to Promote Equitable Mixed-Income Communities Evicted—Navigating the Eviction Process and its Lasting Impact Who Enforces CRA? These articles are free to read, but not free to write. Supporting us is simple and fast. You can do it on Patreon! Events Thursday, Oct. 15, 12 p.m. ET | The Future of Community Finance & Community Development After COVID-19 | Join the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development and Urban Design Forum to discuss: How can we shape community investment programs to meet the needs of today’s crisis? How can we leverage existing tools—and create new tools and policies—to hold banks accountable and achieve fair and equitable lending? Register here. Through Oct. 31 | Home Truths: Films about Housing Rights, Displacement, and the Meaning of Home | This online film series, presented in association with Shelterforce, highlights a variety of films that have dramatized the plight of those who wage a daily battle for safe and secure housing, that have unveiled the structural and economic forces that render that struggle so difficult, and that have chronicled the efforts of activists to make change. Learn more here. We only list free events and resources of national interest.  To learn about advertising, click here. You Said It On “Who Enforces CRA?” Peter Sabonis: You can't tell the regulatory changes in Community Reinvestment Act without a scorecard. Thanks to @Shelterforce for supplying one. Via Twitter Coalition for Safe Loan Alternatives: Get asked a lot about Community Reinvestment Act and #CRA credits. Excellent breakdown by @Shelterforce here on the role of @USOCC @FDICgov @federalreserve. Via Twitter On “Evicted—Navigating the Eviction Process and its Lasting Impact” Doug Ryan: Excellent article in @Shelterforce, by someone who faced eviction and its aftermath. And who is a housing professional. Via Twitter Deron Lovaas: Want to understand evictions, and how devastating they are as they loom over millions in 2020? Read this. Via Twitter Legal Services Corp: Compelling personal account of the difficulties and costs of navigating the #eviction process. Via Twitter Jobs President, Berkshire Housing, Pittsfield, MA ● Berkshire Housing seeks a President to help further the organization’s vision to improve the quality of life for residents of Berkshire County by increasing affordable housing opportunities, delivering community development programs and projects, and operating a professional management company. Read Full Listing Executive Director, Houston Housing Collaborative (Part of TACDC), Houston, TX ● The Executive Director will provide overall leadership in all aspects of Houston Housing Collaborative’s organizational activities. A successful candidate will have a passion for affordable housing and an unwavering belief and commitment to collaboration as a means of planning, implementing and evaluating community-driven goals. The Executive Director will . . . Read Full Listing More Jobs Vice President – Community Development and Policy Studies, Chicago, IL ● Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Senior Real Estate Project Manager, Boston, MA ● 2Life Communities Program Manager- Equitable Neighborhood Development, San Antonio, TX ● National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders Program Coordinator, San Antonio, TX ● National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders Real Estate Director, Boston, MA ● The Planning Office for Urban Affairs Bilingual (English/Spanish) Homeownership Counselor, Raleigh, NC ● DHIC Inc. Click here to post a job! Editor and Interim Publisher, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Associate Editor, Brandon Duong Assistant Editor, Elizabeth Oguss Operations Manager, Sam Fields Made possible by the generous support of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● The Kresge Foundation ● Wells Fargo and  Bank of America Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● Kaiser Permanente ● NeighborWorks America ● PNC Bank Foundation● Truist Bank  ● Valley National Bank ... and with the support of readers like you.