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State of the Nation's Housing 2015-Live Webcast

This year's report provides a current assessment of the state of housing markets for both rental and homeownership, and will be presented in a live webcast on June 24. Learn more here.

National Conference on Housing Mobility

The conference takes place in Chicago on July 16, and is organized by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Metropolitan Planning Council, and Center on Budget and Planning Policies. Learn more here.

People

Andy Slettebak is the new director of lending at NeighborWorks America. He was previously ICE director at National Housing Trust.

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Not Just Any Job

By Donnell Alexander
West Humboldt Park is a community whose residents are not accustomed to demanding good jobs; aside from Kedzie, the most available employment opportunities are security gigs with mom-and-pop corner markets. Conventional wisdom would argue that beggars should not be choosers. Still . . . More

Black & Brown Tenant Solidarity in Oakland

Q&A with Kitzia Esteva-Martinez, Causa Justa/Just Cause
Black and Latino tenants have been working together to fight against gentrification and landlord harassment. They're winning. Here's how . . . More

From Rooflines, the Shelterforce Blog

What an Affordable Housing Victory Looks Like in DC

By Daniel Kravetz
Local DC housing advocates are celebrating their hard-won budget victory. But does the new budget represent a glass 10% full, or 90% empty? . . . More

Urban America--and Community Development--of Tomorrow

By Cy Richardson, National Urban League

Community development is, at root, based on the notion that people share some sense of identity, such as where they reside, or social or cultural similarities. However, as twenty-first century urban communities change at a faster pace. . . More

Housers Get Some Backup

By Jonathan Reckford, Habitat for Humanity

Community development organizations know that a stable, safe, and healthy home is crucial to positive outcomes, but other organizations you wouldn't expect are also taking notice. . . and action. . . More

You Said It!

How do we invest in meeting basic housing code standards never mind healthy housing if some communities want to use having home values exceed the mortgage debt? No doubt, in some markets including some housing markets in RI, rising values could lift some homes to a point of both value to have loan modification feasible or push to make unaffordable to new buyers. . . --Ray Neirinckx on "Should We Want Home Prices to Rise?"

Resources

New Report: The Timing and Duration Effects of Homelessness on Children's Health

New research from Children's HealthWatch illustrates there is no safe level of homelessness. The timing (pre-natal, post-natal) and duration of homelessness (more or less than six months) compounds the risk of harmful child health outcomes. The younger and longer a child experiences homelessness, the greater the cumulative toll of negative health outcomes, which can have lifelong effect on the child, the family, and the community. Read the report here.

New Report: The Challenge of Rising Rents

Most of the housing units in New York City that are affordable to low-income renters are in multifamily buildings that receive no government subsidy to maintain low rents. Yet, rising rents threaten the future affordability of this critical source of low-rent housing. The report considers whether the city could offer a benefit to protect affordability in this stock, and examines the feasibility of such a program for building owners and the city. Read the report here.