(ShelterForce) Can Tobacco Build Housing?

In This Issue: How to Make the Connection With Public Health Departments ● Health Sector Players Speaking Up for Housing Policy Change ● Nonprofits Face Financial Uncertainty Due to the Widening Budget Gap ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ●

Week of Nov. 2 In This Issue: How to Make the Connection With Public Health Departments ● Health Sector Players Speaking Up for Housing Policy Change ● Nonprofits Face Financial Uncertainty Due to the Widening Budget Gap ● Can Tobacco Build Housing? ● Also: Jobs ● Events ● You Said It ● In Case You Missed It + Tobacco Causes Cancer. Can it Build Housing? Brandon Duong, Shelterforce “Sin taxes” usually fund health and education programs. Will Colorado add housing to that list? And should they? Read Full Article New York State Stiffs Nonprofits David Howard King, Shelterforce Is New York the canary in the coal mine when it comes to a nonprofit funding collapse? Read Full Article Health Sector 101: Our Coverage Continues Outside Their Comfort Zone: Health Sector Players Speaking Up for Housing Policy Change Bich Ha Pham, Healthcare Anchor Network Health care leaders have significant influence on both public policy and public opinion, but they’ve rarely used that influence to talk about anything other than traditional health care issues. Now that may be changing... Read Full Article Forming Partnerships With Public Health Departments, Part 2: How to Make the Connection Logan Rockefeller Harris, North Carolina Justice Center, and Megan Gaydos, Solange Gould, Human Impact Partners What are health departments bringing to the table in partnerships with community organizations? We provide a roadmap for building a relationship with health department staff in your area. Read Full Article In Case You Missed It Can You Have Revitalization Without Displacement?  The Real Limits of Census Tracts, and Other Boundaries  The CARES Act Was Supposed to Protect New Jersey Tenants from Eviction. It Didn’t. Real Estate Defaults Are Coming. Don't Waste Them. Events Friday, Nov. 6, 12:30 p.m. ET | Under One Roof: Building an Abolitionist Approach to Housing Justice | This webinar jointly sponsored by the Journal of Legislation and Public Policy and the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, will explore what housing policy, research, and advocacy can learn from abolitionists and, in particular, the scholarship and advocacy that have shaped movements for prison and police abolition. Register here. We only list free events and resources of national interest.  To learn about advertising, click here. Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... You Said It On “Losing Nonprofit Control of Tax Credit Housing?” Joe Kriesberg: It is beyond maddening to see predatory investors trying to change deal terms that preserve non-profit control and long term affordability. Thankfully, the MA SJC ruled the right way in MA but we need national solution. Via Twitter On “Perspectives on the Community Land Trust” Deborah Myerson: Appreciate learning more about CLTs globally to advance community control of land & #housing. Via Twitter On “Frank Wilkinson’s Legacy” J.T.: Excellently written. Thank you for this brief history of a figure whose story in Los Angeles should be better known. Read More On “Real Estate Defaults Are Coming. Don’t Waste Them.” Mat Thall: This is a bold and thoughtful proposal. It can be complemented with the ongoing local and state efforts around the country to enact Tenant Right of Frist Refusal and Tenant Opportunity to Purchase legislation. While preserving naturally occurring affordable rental housing would be a tremendous outcome . . . Read More Adam Eliason: Thank you for your detailed article clearly indicating that a tsunami wave of evictions and foreclosures is coming in the not to distant future. I’ve been through this cycle before and you are spot on regarding planning now. Your idea of naturally occurring affordable housing is . . . Read More The NHP Foundation: Thinking about how to create more #affordablehousing? @Shelterforce is always a good place to start. Via Twitter Ben Chin: The government should be as smart about capital as...capitalists. Love this idea from @AJakabovics and David Abromowitz. My friendly amendment is that state governments could also pass similar policies. Via Twitter Jennifer Castenson: We need to rethink the approach to #affordablehousing this time around for a more sustainable system. Via Twitter Deborah Myerson: A timely call in the face of a pending real estate downturn for a flexible source of capital and a system to expand the national supply of decent, affordable rental housing. Via Twitter On “Forming Partnerships With Public Health Departments, Part 1: Why It’s a Good Idea” Fernando Centeno: These efforts are great but they do not go far enough. Unless/until public health depts collaborate with CED practitioners who seek to replace the structural determinants of our widening socioeconomic divide, the status quo will remain. “Health equity” from my experience is still . . . Read More Jobs Director of Real Estate Development, Champlain Housing Trust, Burlington, VT ● Champlain Housing Trust is seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead its real estate development activities throughout Chittenden, Franklin, and Grand Isle counties. The ideal candidate will be committed to social justice, equity, and . . . Read Full Listing Executive Director, Building Memphis, Memphis, TN ● Building Memphis seeks an experienced executive with strengths in organizational development, civic engagement, and team leadership to continue and strengthen our work supporting the community development sector. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors. Read Full Listing Initial Executive Director, California Community Land Trust Network, Berkeley, CA ● The California Community Land Trust Network seeks an initial Executive Director to support the organization in its transition from a member and volunteer board-led organization to a fully staffed one while maintaining the collaborative member relationships and member-centric structure. Read Full Listing Manager/Director of Media Relations & Communications, National Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, D.C. ● National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) seeks a manager/director of media relations and communications to develop, implement, and manage media and public relations strategies to advance NLIHC’s mission of achieving socially just public policy to ensure . . . Read Full Listing 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 More Jobs Affordable Housing Specialist, Park City, UT ● Park City Municipal Corporation Organizing Director, New York City, NY ● New Economy Project Development Director, New York City, NY ● New Economy Project Vice President – Community Development and Policy Studies, Chicago, IL ● Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 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. 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.