How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD — Shelterforce …
2024年9月26日 · In anticipation of a Republican ascension to the White House, The Heritage Foundation—a right-wing think tank pushing regressive, oppressive, often draconian ideas—released a new “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” the latest edition in a series of books meant to guide conservative policies in the federal government.
How Fast Could the Trump Administration Make HUD, Fair …
2024年12月23日 · Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or AFFH, is a statutory requirement of the Fair Housing Act. It means that recipients of HUD funding (and any other federal funding that might affect fair housing, such as infrastructure development) must take an extra step beyond nondiscrimination: they must actively work to reverse the results of past discriminatory housing practices and promote housing ...
Housing Groups Weigh in on Harris’s and Trump’s Housing Plans
2024年10月22日 · Once dismissed as a “third-rail political issue,” housing is finally being prioritized as a platform issue in the 2024 presidential election.That is in no small part because the housing crisis, decades in the making, has reached a boiling point. Today the U.S. has a housing shortfall of an estimated 4 million to 7 million homes.A record-high number of renter households—about 22 million ...
Fixing the Housing Crisis Beyond Supply, a Webinar
2024年12月19日 · In November, Shelterforce and Next City co-sponsored, “Fixing the Housing Crisis Beyond Supply,” a webinar that focused on the root causes of the housing crisis and solutions that go beyond merely adding supply. The conversation covered various approaches that can help address this urgent problem, such as policy reforms and zoning changes, establishing community land trusts, affordable ...
Shelterforce Newsmatch campaign 2024
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The Making of Co-op City, the Nation’s Biggest Housing Co-op
2022年10月6日 · Freedomland: Co-op City and the Story of New York, by Oberlin College history professor Annemarie Sammartino, traces the history of Co-op City from its initial planning stages in the mid 1960s through the early 1990s, including a major rent strike, the assertion of community control, race and class dynamics, and the ways the development reflected what was happening in New York City as a whole.
Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing Shelterforce
4 天之前 · Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.
Street Blocks to Alphabet Blocks: The Housing-Education Connection
2024年11月11日 · Under the Lens. Street Blocks to Alphabet Blocks: The Housing-Education Connection. In this Under the Lens series, we explore the ways the educational justice and housing justice movements overlap, why it’s challenging for these two spheres to work together, and much more.
LIHTC: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Complicated - Shelterforce
Under the Lens. LIHTC: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Complicated. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable housing.
States Are Using This Tool to Keep LIHTC Housing Affordable for …
2024年9月13日 · This decade, the U.S. could lose nearly half a million affordable housing units. That’s because those units were built in the 90s using federal low-income housing tax credits, which require property owners to keep units affordable for 30 years.Once that protection expires, landlords are legally allowed to charge higher market-rate rents.