How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD — Shelterforce …
Sep 26, 2024 · 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 …
Dec 23, 2024 · 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
Oct 22, 2024 · 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 …
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 ...
Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing Shelterforce
5 days ago · Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.
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.
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.
Shelterforce Newsmatch campaign 2024
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Where Housing Won and Lost in the 2024 Election
Nov 7, 2024 · If we break it down by Tenant Protections/Housing Trust Funds/ Housing Bonds/Taxes…. There were six initiatives relative to tenant protections and two passed (with the four losses coming in California, including two in CA localities (Fairfax and San Anselmo) with high homeownership rates relative to the rest of the state.
The Making of Co-op City, the Nation’s Biggest Housing Co-op
Oct 6, 2022 · 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.