8 Reasons Why Fair Housing Is Still Important

In this Issue: Amazon's Opportunity to Revitalize Communities ● Marketplace for Health and Housing ● Q: Can Community Development Improve Health Sector Outcomes? ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events ● Industry News +

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 In this Issue: Amazon's Opportunity to Revitalize Communities ● Marketplace for Health and Housing ● Q: Can Community Development Improve Health Sector Outcomes? ● Also: Jobs ● Shelter Shorts ● Events ● Industry News + Shelter Shorts The Week in Community Development Really, YIMBYs? | Tracking 80 Million Evictions | TOD Without Displacement | MLK's Campaign, Revitalized | Airbnb Hastening Demise of NOLA Culture? | Bike "Borrowing" for Equity | More... Read Here Looking for a Job? Scroll Down... Ben Carson's Perverse Actions and Why Fair Housing Is Still Important Rachel G. Bratt, Tufts University This month marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act, and it’s disappointing that HUD Secretary Ben Carson is doing all he can to undermine its mission. There are at least eight reasons why fair housing continues to be such an important issue, including… Read Full Article A Marketplace for Health and Housing Megan Sandel, Boston University School of Medicine, and Allison Bovell-Ammon, Children’s HealthWatch Our current “investments” in health are not working. Despite spending more per person on health services than other nations, the U.S. continues to have worse health outcomes. How do we set up a marketplace that addresses the social determinants of health and changes the ratios of health investments? Read Full Article The Amazon Opportunity to Revitalize Urban Communities Dan Hoffman If corporations continue to be able to extract public subsidies as the price of locating in a community, perhaps the debate is not whether to offer subsidies but rather to reconsider how and for what purpose such subsidies are to be provided. Here’s one incentive that might actually be worth offering... Read Full Article Q: Can Supporting Community Development Improve Outcomes for the Health Sector? A: Yes! Over 50 percent of premature deaths in the U.S. can be attributed to preventable non-medical factors, specifically behavioral, environmental, and social conditions. Through its work in areas such as affordable housing, neighborhood quality, and safety, the community development field reduces the need for many... See Infographic Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly! Industry News The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has promoted its two top executives to co-leadership positions and announced the creation of a new political unit. NCRC’s John Taylor has been named president & founder, and will lead a new political arm of NCRC—Americans for a Fair Deal—to help elect politicians who support upward mobility for poor and working-class Americans. Jesse Van Tol, who has most recently been serving as chief operating officer, has been named NCRC’s CEO. Taylor and Van Tol will co-lead the organization to expand opportunities for affordable housing, economic development in low- and moderate-income communities, and fairness in financial services. Events Thursday, April 26, 1 p.m. EDT ● Measuring Mobility: Power, Autonomy, and Being Valued in Community ● The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty and Stanford University’s SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions) lab present this webinar to share tools to measure three core principles of mobility: economic success, power and autonomy, and being valued in community. Many people working on increasing mobility from poverty are familiar with measures of economic success but are often less familiar with high-quality and well-developed measures of power, autonomy, communion, and belonging. Resources Picture the Homeless has released their latest policy report. The Business of Homelessness: Financial & Human Costs of the Shelter-Industrial Complex is the result of a year-long investigation into the fiscal policies and priorities that influence the lives of homeless New Yorkers, and how those priorities could be adjusted to support permanent, stable, and decent housing. If the system is bad for the budget, bad for homeless people, and bad for neighborhoods, who exactly is profiting? Looking for a Job? Keep scrolling... Help support Shelterforce, the voice of community development! Subscribe to our quarterly print magazine. You Said It! On Displaced Portland Residents Given Priority for Homeownership One stellar thing about urban redevelopment areas (URAs) in Portland; fully 45% of the gross revenue in all the URAs must be invested into affordable housing. Significantly greater than the common practice in… —Urbanista, more As of 2017, [land trust] homeowners who have lived in their homes for at least 10 years earn an average of $76,000 in equity in their home. —Proud Ground, via Twitter What if they don’t want to become homeowners and endure that financial burden? Rental set-asides would be a good idea, too... —Carol Ott, via Twitter On The $9 Jar of Artisanal Pickles: Equity and Local Food “Culturally appropriate” foods? It’s possible to take this too far. My grandmother’s foods would be culturally appropriate for me, and many of them retain emotional significance for me and my family. But she had no… —EB, more On The Answer The Answer has been a great resource for staff and members at Housing Action Illinois. The one-pagers break down complicated topics in understandable ways without oversimplifying them. We’ve been inspired to think about how we can create similar graphic explainers to questions specific to Illinois. Thank you for creating a valuable set of intelligent responses to thorny questions! —Kristin Ginger, via email In Case You Missed It Ask Yourself: Who Do Anti-Rent Control Policies Serve? New Money on the Block: Funders for Housing and Opportunity Dear Business School Professors: You’re Wrong, Rent Control Works The Cultural Ramifications of Gentrification in New Orleans Long-Displaced Residents Get to Go Back Home Click here to post a job! Jobs Executive Director ● Housing Initiatives is a nonprofit that serves homeless mentally ill individuals using the housing-first model. Our new ED will need experience in financial and human resources management and nonprofit fund development, and will oversee a staff of at least ten people, as well as management of over... Read Full Listing Community Development Manager – Midwest Region (Michigan and Ohio) ● NCST seeks the right individual to be responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with public, nonprofit, and for-profit partners to support the acquisition of vacant and/or abandoned properties from financial institutions for the purpose of returning these properties to productive use... Read Full Listing Construction Project Manager ● In accordance with Habitat for Humanity in Whatcom County’s construction standards and policies, the CPM supervises overall construction activity and provides leadership to volunteers, staff, and paid sub-contractors. Most workweeks include Saturdays supervising the construction site... Read Full Listing Executive Director ● Charlottesville Tomorrow, a nonprofit news organization in Charlottesville, Virginia, is seeking a dynamic leader to become its next executive director. This executive director will oversee and manage all aspects of the organization, with a particular focus on strategic planning, financial management, and... Read Full Listing More Jobs Community Organizing Supervisor ● Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Executive Director ● Somerville Homeless Coalition Senior Policy Analyst • CHAPA: Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association Capital Project Manager • Plymouth Housing Group  Editor, Miriam Axel-Lute Managing Editor, Lillian M. Ortiz Associate Editor, Keli A. Tianga Publisher, Harold Simon Assistant Publisher, Terri L. Clegg Made possible by the generous support of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ● Kresge Foundation ● NeighborWorks America ● Kaiser Permanente ● Bank of America Foundation ● JPMorgan Chase Foundation ● John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ● Citi Community Development ● PNC Bank Foundation ● Hyde and Watson Foundation ● Ocwen Financial Corporation ...and with the support of readers like you. 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