Does RAD Privatize Public Housing?

In This Issue: Doing 'The Right Thing' Won't Solve the Racial Wealth Gap ● Moving Beyond the Holy Trinity of Racial Wealth Gap Answers ● Does RAD Privatize Public Housing? ● Also: Jobs ● ICYMI+

Week of Feb. 14 Does RAD Privatize Public Housing? Josh Cohen, Shelterforce How exactly does RAD work and why is there a raging debate over whether it’s putting tenants’ rights and housing affordability in peril? Read Full Article Under the Lens: Racial Wealth Gap Moving Beyond the Holy Trinity of Racial Wealth Gap Answers Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce As important as homeownership, business ownership, and higher education are—and make no mistake, we should not accept racial disparities in any of those things—we must go beyond simply promoting more of each if we want to make a difference in the racial wealth gap. Read Full Article Doing 'The Right Thing' Won't Solve the Racial Wealth Gap Anne Price, Insight Center for Community Economic Development James A. Parsons made significant contributions to the nation, yet he was blocked from generating wealth to pass down to his family. Anne Price shares her relative's story, and why solutions to address racial wealth inequality have fallen short. Read Full Article Video: Rethinking the Racial Wealth Gap with Anne Price Miriam Axel-Lute and Anne Price launch Shelterforce's Racial Wealth Gap series by talking about what typical conversations about closing the racial wealth gap often miss and the dangers of over-emphasizing more homeownership as a solution. Watch Full Video In Case You Missed It Maurice Jones on Job Creation, Community Development, and Wealth Building Living in a Bubble: Development When Community Doesn’t Matter Shifting the Affordable Housing Narrative Through Arts and Culture Events Thursday, March 3, 2 p.m. ET and Tuesday, March 15, 2 p.m. ET LIHTC & Racial Equity: Developing an Equity Scorecard of QAPs | The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation is in the process of developing a ‘QAP scorecard’ to strengthen standards within the nation’s largest affordable housing program—the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Join Miriam Zuk, of Ground Works Consulting, to learn more about the intersection of racial equity and LIHTC and provide input into the development of scoring criteria. Register here. Opportunities The Housing Solutions Lab is now accepting applications from local housing policy officials and stakeholders in cities of 50,000 – 500,000 residents. Participants will have access to an ongoing national community of support, timely and practical data and policy resources, and information from housing experts to help them pursue equitable, evidence-based housing policies. Applications are due by Feb. 25. Learn more and apply here. Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League are launching a fellowship program to empower voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities. The fellowship will support the development of five critics from underrepresented backgrounds through guest lectures and workshops, research guidance, mentorship opportunities, networking, and production of new critical projects in Urban Omnibus and other leading publications. Applications are due March 22. Learn more and apply 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 Laura Recchie: whoa a thread that already has @ourcityRTTC @dianeyentel @Shelterforce and the likes adding their own lists and authors of books like how to kill a city (@_pem_pem) chiming in is a housing nerd’s dream day on Twitter. Via Twitter On “Doing “The Right Thing” Won’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap” Richard Bottoms: Jim Crow destroyed my father. Redlining made impossible for my mom to refinance the home we lived in after the divorce. Black people were left at the starting line of the race to the 21st Century. Black GI’s were screwed after WWII. Via Twitter Keri-Nicole Dillman: Thank you for this wonderful article and your candor in it. I want to cheer this powerful and elegant use of personal narrative to make the realities of structural racism and its terrible impacts so accessible. I will absolutely . . . Read More On “Shared Housing Tackles Loneliness in Homeless Services” Kresge Arts & Culture: Housing insecurity & homelessness are on the rise. We must build and support equitable development. Via Twitter On “Living in a Bubble: Development When Community Doesn’t Matter” Howard Hecht: Thank you for this article. As someone with close to fifty years in the affordable housing field, mostly in New York City, your concerns are very much appreciated. I’ve always though a mandatory 80-20 program makes most sense, even if it is more . . . Read More Jobs Deputy Director, National Affordable Housing Retrofit Initiative, ACEEE, Washington, DC or Remote USA ● ACEEE seeks a deputy director for a national project to scale up clean energy retrofits in the LMI housing market. Capacity-building will be aimed at states and localities to help ensure state, local, and federal resources are effectively deployed to accelerate LMI retrofits in ways that address climate . . . Read Full Listing Technical Assistance Coordinator, National Affordable Housing Retrofit Initiative, ACEEE, Washington, DC or Remote USA ● Valley Community Development Corporation (Valley) seeks an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced Fiscal Director. Valley is a community based nonprofit organization formed in 1988 and serving Hampshire and Franklin counties. Our mission is to empower underserved . . . Read Full Listing Technical Assistance Coordinator, National Affordable Housing Retrofit Initiative, ACEEE, Washington, DC or Remote USA ● The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a leading national research organization based in Washington, DC, seeks a technical assistance coordinator for a new initiative designed to scale up low- and moderate-income (LMI) building retrofits . . . Read Full Listing Community Development Research Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA ● This position is in the Philadelphia Fed’s Community Development and Regional Outreach Department, which works with low- and moderate-income communities to support the growth of an inclusive economy. Research analysts are responsible for performing quantitative and qualitative analyses, primarily . . . Read Full Listing Senior Fellow - Medicaid, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C. ● CBPP is seeking to hire a Senior Fellow who has substantial knowledge of and experience with affordable housing and/or homelessness programs (such as, but not limited to, the Housing Choice Voucher program and other rental assistance programs, Public Housing, McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance . . . Read Full Listing Director of Asset Management, Imagine Housing, Kirkland, Washington ● The Director of Asset Management is responsible for the overall ownership, operations, and management of the real estate portfolio ensuring the financial and physical conditions of the properties meet industry standards and serve the organization’s mission. Responsible for assessing . . . Read Full Listing Policy and Research Analyst, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, Washington, D.C. ● CLPHA is seeking a dynamic and experienced Policy and Research Analyst. Under the general direction of the Director of Policy and Research, this position is responsible for conducting research, analyzing and projecting the impact of proposed federal, state and other laws, rules, and regulations . . . Read Full Listing Corporations and Foundations Development Officer, La Casa de Don Pedro, Inc., Newark, NJ ● La Casa de Don Pedro seeks an experienced and passionate Corporations and Foundations Development Officer [CFDO] to help strengthen its resource development capacity and impact in order to carry out La Casa’s mission to foster self-sufficiency, empowerment, and neighborhood . . . Read Full Listing Manager - Market-Based Affordable Housing Team, Office of Housing, Seattle, WA or Philadelphia, PA Preferred ● We are looking for a Senior Capital Investments Officer to help the City invest in the development and preservation of affordable multifamily rental housing. You will participate in all aspects of the financing process, from underwriting through closing and construction draws. Project assignments will . . . Read Full Listing Senior Capital Investments Officer, Office of Housing, Seattle, WA ● We are looking for a Senior Capital Investments Officer to help the City invest in the development and preservation of affordable multifamily rental housing. You will participate in all aspects of the financing process, from underwriting through closing and construction draws. Project assignments will . . . Read Full Listing Homeownership Specialist, Office of Housing, Seattle, WA ● Our Homeownership Division is looking for a Homeownership Specialist who will work to advance and strengthen programs and policies that serve low- and moderate-income homebuyers and homeowners. Reporting to the Strategic Advisor for Homeownership, . . . Read Full Listing CEO, Downstreet Housing & Community Development, Barre, VT ● Downstreet Housing & Community Development is seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to guide this respected regional housing organization. Downstreet is Central Vermont’s premier housing advocacy organization, with a primary focus on affordable housing, homebuyer education and assistance as well . . . Read Full Listing CEO, Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation, Boston, MA ● The CEO will have the opportunity to lead a prominent, long-standing, well-respected, sizable, and innovative economic development corporation which has had tremendous impact on its Dorchester community and the City of Boston since 1979. Situated in vibrant Uphams Corner . . . Read Full Listing Executive Director, Affordable Housing Education and Development, Inc., Littleton, NH ● The Board of Directors of the Affordable Housing Education and Development Inc. (AHEAD) seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and seasoned executive to lead the organization into the next decade. The next Executive Director will manage a $2.3 million dollar budget, $66 million dollars in assets and 514-unit housing portfolio of . . . Read Full Listing Audience Growth & Engagement Specialist, Shelterforce, Remote ● The driving goal of Shelterforce’s audience growth and engagement specialist will be to expand our readership, our presence online, and our content uptake/backlinks with national and local media. You will have the pleasure of working in partnership with the publisher and . . . 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