How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD — Shelterforce …
Sep 26, 2024 · Reported Article HUD. How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD. The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past.
Where Housing Won and Lost in the 2024 Election
Nov 7, 2024 · Prop 5—Voters rejected this measure, which, if passed, would have reduced the threshold to approve local bonds to fund affordable housing, supportive housing, or public infrastructure initiatives from two-thirds to 55 percent, and added various accountability requirements to those bonds. Legislative analysis showed that 20 percent to 50 percent more local bond measures would have passed ...
Sweden’s Housing Co-ops Offer a Model for Moderate-Income …
Oct 25, 2024 · About 350,000 of those units are part of HSB Riksförbund and 200,000 are part of Riksbyggen.HSB and Riksbyggen are two different national cooperative organizations that develop new co-ops and convert existing public and private multifamily units into …
Fixing the Housing Crisis Beyond Supply, a Webinar
Dec 19, 2024 · 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 ...
LA Tenants Union Founders Call on Renters to Fight Back
Oct 10, 2024 · Rosenthal’s and Vilchis’ attempt to address these problems led to the creation of the LA Tenants Union, which has a membership of 3,000 dues-paying households.And over the past 9 years, the pair has worked alongside some of the union’s local chapters to coordinate some of the most public, and often successful, organizing fights.
Could This Rolling Rent Strike Make the Feds Protect Tenants?
Oct 4, 2024 · TUF has its roots in a previous campaign, Homes Guarantee, which was launched in 2017 as an arm of the multi-issue organizing group People’s Action.That campaign set its sights on FHFA after it found that it had the ability to enshrine and enforce increased tenant protections, through its regulatory capacities.
They Had No Heat for Four Months. A New Law Let Them Sue.
Aug 7, 2024 · Reported Article State & Local Policy. They Had No Heat for Four Months. A New Law Let Them Sue. In New York state, tenants can now take landlords to court to force repairs and get damages, without withholding rent first.
How a Program Advanced Education and Community …
Dec 5, 2024 · In 2013, after a three-year campaign led by community advocates, the state of Maryland authorized the Maryland Stadium Authority (MSA) to issue $60 million in bonds to support the renovation and/or replacement of Baltimore City public schools, leveraging $1.1 billion in total. Interestingly, the state legislation called on leaders to go beyond the school day and:
Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing
Oct 2, 2024 · Trump’s campaign website’s messaging largely defers to the GOP platform for its positions on housing, which offers few concrete proposals to address housing issues such as the housing shortage, beyond a brief mention of deporting undocumented immigrants to decrease demand.. Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, told TIME that the former president would also ban ...
Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing Shelterforce
3 days ago · Communities; Community Development Field Shelterforce considers “community development” to be an extremely broad term. But there are still many conversations about the ways in which that broad work happens. Comprehensively or …