An Urban Agenda for the First 100 Days

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The Partnership for Public Service honors Lisa M. Jones for CDFI Bond Guarantee Program

Jones is honored with one of eight Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals for her pioneering work to launch the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Bond Guarantee Program.

Events

Office of Health Equity Speaker Series | The Race Card: Difficult but Imperative Discussions about Race and Racism | Oct. 27, 3 p.m. ET

The Office of Health Equity, the Health in All Policies team, and the CDPH Government Alliance for Race and Equity Cohort co-sponsor this discussion on ways public health professionals can engage in conversations to promote health. Join the webinar or RSVP for the local event.

Resources

New Report Available | NLIHC Housing Spotlight: The Long Wait for a Home

The National Low Income Housing Coalition offers Housing Spotlight: A Long Wait for a Home -- a report that analyzes the current state of Housing Choice Vouchers and public housing waiting lists across the country.

Build Healthy Places Network: Summarizing the Landscape of Healthy Communities

The healthy communities movement has transformed the way we define and address health. This report takes a comprehensive look at 38 regional and national healthy communities demonstration programs to better understand who is leading the work, where they focus their efforts, and what actions they undertake to promote healthy communities.

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

Mapping Inequality offers unprecedented online access to the national collection of "security maps" and area descriptions produced between 1935 and 1940 by one of the New Deal's most important agencies, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, which recruited mortgage lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers in nearly 250 cities to create maps that color-coded credit worthiness and risk. These maps helped set the rules for nearly a century of real estate practice.

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Gramm Wrong, Again, on CRA

Gregory Squires, George Washington University

Some arguments apparently never die, no matter how much evidence contradicts them. This time, it's a former politician who would like to discourage infrastructure investment, and a decade-old . . . More

A Strong Rule and Reforms Are Needed to Combat Payday Loans

Josh Silver, NCRC

Advocates, consumer groups, and the payday loan industry all mobilized when the CFPB asked for comment on a proposed rule to curb the industry's predatory activity. While the rule has the potential to further protect vulnerable communities, there are some crucial parts still missing . . . More

New Lenses on Economic Development

Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce

How do we expand the public toolbox for promoting economic development beyond incentives to footloose companies? There are more options than you might think. More

Letters to the Next President

4 Ways a President Clinton Could Help Cities Thrive in Her First 100 Days

Nikki Fortunato Bas, Partnership for Working Families

While Secretary Clinton has started to outline a plan for rural America, there has been less focus on setting an urban-specific agenda. Here are four executive actions on housing, work, opportunity, and democratic participation that she should take within the first 100 days in office . . . More

11 Ways to Put the "Public" Back into Public Housing

Amy T. Khare, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, and Janet Smith, Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement

Without returning to the "bad-old days" of public housing, here are 11 suggestions for our incoming president on how to revive its spirit of equity, affordability, and community--all without privatization . . . More

You Said It!

On How Could Homelessness Have Barely Budged During the Recession?

Our homeless don't have the income (federal entitlements) to qualify for the Rapid ReHousing program. The ones who do have a check that is about equal to the monthly rent here. The RRH program gives them . . . --Chad, more

On The Filtering Fallacy

I think Peter Cohen is wrong when he opposes market rate housing, opposes the Affordable Housing Bonus Plan, and opposes Governor Brown's "By Right" . . . Filtering does work, just not as fast as . . . --Jonathan Bonato, more

This article assumes that we need to make a choice between creating dedicated affordable housing and expanding market-rate development in order to ease affordability pressures. This is a false assumption. We clearly need . . . --Jeff Lubell, more

Good luck, San Francisco. It may be too late for you because you've let it all go too far. You are a cautionary tale for . . . --AinBmore, more

Yes, there are differences of opinion about the defeated "by right development" proposal for California and whether the underlying theory of "filtering" actually works as asserted by its proponents. This article lays out arguments . . . --Peter Cohen, more

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