How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD — Shelterforce …
Sep 26, 2024 · Reported Article HUD. How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD. The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past.
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.
Could This Rolling Rent Strike Make the Feds Protect Tenants?
Oct 4, 2024 · TUF has its roots in a previous campaign, Homes Guarantee, which was launched in 2017 as an arm of the multi-issue organizing group People’s Action.That campaign set its sights on FHFA after it found that it had the ability to enshrine and enforce increased tenant protections, through its regulatory capacities.
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 …
Where Housing Won and Lost in the 2024 Election
Nov 7, 2024 · Prop 5—Voters rejected this measure, which, if passed, would have reduced the threshold to approve local bonds to fund affordable housing, supportive housing, or public infrastructure initiatives from two-thirds to 55 percent, and added various accountability requirements to those bonds. Legislative analysis showed that 20 percent to 50 percent more local bond measures would have passed ...
Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing
Oct 2, 2024 · Trump’s campaign website’s messaging largely defers to the GOP platform for its positions on housing, which offers few concrete proposals to address housing issues such as the housing shortage, beyond a brief mention of deporting undocumented immigrants to decrease demand.. Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, told TIME that the former president would also ban ...
Kingston Agreed the Rent Was Too Damn High—So It Lowered It
Oct 11, 2024 · UPDATED Oct. 18 | When Carolina Soto was looking for apartments in Kingston, New York, in 2019, she had to settle on a fixer upper. Coming from New York City where she and her husband, Ray, were paying more than half of their income on rent, Soto sought a more affordable and relaxed lifestyle among Kingston’s serene landscape of rolling green hills and the nearby Catskill Mountain range.
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: 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.
Bill Would Ban Hedge Funds from Owning Single-Family Homes ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Reported Article Financialization. Blockbusting the Big Boys: Bill Would Ban Hedge Funds from Owning Single-Family Homes. The End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act is an ambitious attempt to keep private equity's influence out of single-family homes.