Trickle-Down Affordability Won't Work





Also: Stopping Decline in Homeownership Requires More than Affordability ● How Could Homelessness Have Barely Increased During Recession?
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016


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Laura Barrett joins Interfaith Worker Justice as executive director.

Before joining IWJ, Barrett served as executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. Prior to that, she spent 11 years with the Gamaliel Network, most recently as national Transportation Equity Network campaign director and as part of Gamaliel's interim leadership team. She has been blogging for Shelterforce in all of these roles.

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Tenant Talk, a semi-annual newsletter by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, focuses on how resident organizations and communities are taking action. This issue focuses on the 2016 election and includes local voter guides, a look at voter suppression laws, and more. Download the issue here.

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How Could Homelessness Have Barely Increased During the Recession?
Judy Perlman, The Cloudburst Group
It has been suggested that homelessness is not indexed to poverty rates, as one might assume, but rather to housing costs. It turns out that homelessness is actually lowest in some of the poorer areas of the country, and stays high and gets higher in red-hot housing markets--the conclusion being that the plummeting costs of housing opened up lower-rent stock during the economic recession, and the market did the rest. While that could be part of the reason, is there another marker in this story that we're missing?  More

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Stopping the Decline in Homeownership Requires More than Affordability
Doug Ryan, CFED
The price of for-sale homes matters when it comes to the homeownership rate. However, by themselves, affordable prices won't reverse our homeownership decline. Here's why.   More

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Trickle-Down Affordability Won't Work
Peter Cohen, San Francisco Council of Community Housing Organizations
Historically, deregulation has proven to be a bad thing for poor and working people, and the housing industry is no exception. This infographic explains why the trickle-down inspired theory of "filtering" doesn't actually make housing more affordable. More
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In New York, space is always at a premium, so it is especially important to ensure that affordable apartments are not squeezed out in order to obtain development. In truth, you will always . . . --Abbott Gorin, more


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