Krystle Okafor and Sophie House, Furman Center The movements for prison and police abolition offer challenges to the way the housing field has long accepted limits on what is possible to achieve in housing justice. Read Full Article | | Tram Hoang, The Alliance How can the community development field stay aligned with the movements that led to its rise in the first place? Read Full Article | | PolicyLink An elected official, two organizers, and a community-based leader discuss their definitions of housing justice and how it connects to other movements. Read Full Article | | | | East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation has announced the appointment of Andre “Andy” H. Madeira as its new chief executive officer. He most recently served as the senior vice president of real estate development at Eden Housing, Inc. Madeira will assume the position of CEO on March 1. | | Events
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2 p.m. ET | Remaking the Economy: Health, Racial Disparities, and Economic Justice | NPQ’s latest webinar in their Remaking the Economy series looks at health care, the largest single sector of the US economy. This webinar will explore the current status of the health care system in the US, and how that differs according to race, class, and location, what good community-based health research looks like, and more. Register here.
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 4 p.m. ET | Federal Resources for Creative Community Development | Join National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations for a webinar designed to help you access federal funds and harness the power of the arts and culture to achieve your community development goals. Register here. | |
We only list free events and resources of national interest. To learn about advertising, click here. | | Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... | | Sharon Brown: In the US we're in an economic crises due to COVID-19. Businesses have slow down or shut down. Lost income or very low income to no income, to living in shelters, vehicles, in the street, why is it that home mortgages, apartment rental properties keep rising. Builders keep building multiple family homes. I am seeing new . . . Read More
Roy Lowenstein: This is an old, but still relevant, debate. 20 years ago, I was working with non-profits to redevelop the boarded buildings in Over-The-Rhine in Cincinnati with federal housing and historic credits and, given that circa 2000, the area was . . . Read More
Hcat: There’s quite a debate. But Christian Community Development Association, which I’m connected with, has always stood for improving communities in place. Read More
Phil Tegeler: What a nasty piece of rhetoric. Low income families of color should have real choices about where to live, not continue to be confined to high poverty neighborhoods by government policy. Via Twitter
Barb Van Kerkhove: I am deeply humbled by this thought provoking piece in @Shelterforce about the assumptions I make when examining segregation and working for racial and housing justice. I appreciate the new ways of thinking about and doing this work. A must read! Via Twitter
K.E. Howard: This article is very timely. In San Francisco, the UCSF health care system is planning an enormous development project, completely out of scale with the surrounding neighborhood and violating prior agreements to limit expansion at this site. There is a . . . Read More
Neil Dasai: I read this article with great interest, especially because the observations and insight come from someone who works in the health care industry. Thank you for taking the time to write it. Read More
Rachel: I live in a mobile home and everyone is complaining throughout Canon City Co. about rent increases, no rent control, management taking too long to tend to tenants needs like cutting or trimming trees in the Park. It’s in the lease. Most people don’t realize that many of us are on a fixed income and we all need to . . . Read More
Laura McNulty: Returning to this article in @Shelterforce on eviction diversion, its limits + unintended consequences. Eviction exacerbates inequity and is devastating to health, now and always. #HousingIsTheCure Via Twitter
Ben Chin: Really important lessons as we grapple with similar issues in Maine. Via Twitter | | | | Reporter: Health Fellow, Shelterforce, Remote ● Shelterforce is looking for a health desk fellow, a part-time writer to cover the intersection of social determinants of health and community development. (See our health coverage here.) The health fellow will work closely with Shelterforce’s publisher, editor, and managing editor to . . . Read Full Listing | | | | | | |
