(ShelterForce) Valuing Black Lives and Black Cities

In This Issue: NJ Tenant Organizing—Looking Back at the Film Techos y Derechos ● Valuing Black Lives and Black Cities ● How Scaled Affordable Housing Asset Management Helps in the Time of COVID ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Mi

Week of Oct. 12 In This Issue: NJ Tenant Organizing—Looking Back at the Film Techos y Derechos ● Valuing Black Lives and Black Cities ● How Scaled Affordable Housing Asset Management Helps in the Time of COVID ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It + 11 Is Better Than 1 Oscar Perry Abello, Shelterforce How the Joint Ownership Entity NYC is helping its community developer members stay strong during COVID. Read Full Article Valuing Black Lives and Black Cities Review by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, National Community Reinvestment Coalition To address racial economic inequality, one must face the underlying myth that the United States is the land of economic mobility. Andre M. Perry’s Know Your Price reveals . . . Read Full Article NJ Tenant Organizing—Looking Back at the Film Techos y Derechos Shelterforce A decades-old tenant organizing film produced by Shelterforce—and now available in digital form here for the first time—is still relevant and useful today. Read Full Article Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... In Case You Missed It Evaluating a Program’s Health Outcomes The Rural Difference in Natural Disasters Arts for Community Control: Planning an Arts District Without Displacement How Engagement and Design Won Over Wary Neighbors Struggling Restaurants Team Up with Community Orgs to Feed Low-Income Seniors 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 “Q: Do Section 8 voucher holders increase crime in a neighborhood?” Howard County Progress Report: To those depraved individuals who respond to news of a Columbia shooting with lamentations about Section 8 housing. Via Twitter On “Affordable Housing on Transit Land” Robert Requejo: Excited to get this going in Chicago with @elevated_chi & @cta @Metra @PacePulse @ChicagoDPD @ChicagoDOH @ChicagoDOT as part of @chicagosmayor #ETOD policy plan implementation. Via Twitter Mariia Zimmerman: Excited to see this story on an issue many regions I work in have been trying to tackle. Via Twitter On “5,000 Meals—Little Tokyo Orgs, Restaurants Team Up to Feed Low-Income Seniors” Jeanne Molinari: Boots on the ground making it work! Love this! Via Twitter On “How Engagement and Design Won Over Wary Neighbors” Ndifuna Ukwazi: A fascinating article on how engagement can help dispel some of the myths associated with #AffordableHousing. 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 Click here to post a job! CEO/Publisher, Schlonn Hawkins CEO/Editor-in-Chief, 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 ● Oak Foundation ● Wells Fargo and  Bank of America Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● The Geraldine R. 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