To Save Urban Planners, Cities Need Community Organizers – Next City
nextcity.org/daily/entry/to-save-urban-planners-cities-need-community-organizers?utm_source=Next+City+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e123c1c705-Issue_286_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcee5bf7a0-e12… To Save Urban Planners, Cities Need Community Organizers Samuel Stein’s earliest memory of urban planning as a profession is knowing of a friend of his parents at their synagogue, when he was growing up, who worked in city planning for the City of Providence. “I’m pretty sure he was my first introduction to planning, […]
Ignore the Myth—Voters *do* Rally for Housing — Shelterforce
shelterforce.org/2019/03/04/ignore-the-myth-voters-do-rally-for-housing/ Ignore the Myth—Voters *do* Rally for Housing March 4, 2019 Precinct 86 voting booths. Photo credit: Whitney via flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Cities are seeing more political support for building housing now than in at least the past four decades. Yet some housing advocates believe public support is lacking, asking “Why haven’t voters been […]
Boulder Presses Pause on Some Opportunity Zone Development – Next City
nextcity.org/daily/entry/boulder-presses-pause-on-some-opportunity-zone-development?utm_source=Next+City+Newsletter&utm_campaign=506fa647c4-Daily_781_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fcee5bf7a0-… Boulder Presses Pause on Some Opportunity Zone Development In Boulder, Colorado, a city of 100,000, a moratorium is standing between the residents of Colorado census tract 122.03 and a flood of capital right now. The tract is one of 8,762 in the U.S. that the federal government designated an Opportunity Zone last year. Investors […]
Corporations Often Secretly Renegotiate Their Tax Incentives, Study Finds – Next City
nextcity.org/daily/entry/corporations-often-secretly-renegotiate-their-tax-incentives-study-finds?utm_source=Next+City+Newsletter&utm_campaign=506fa647c4-Daily_781_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term… Corporations Often Secretly Renegotiate Their Tax Incentives, Study Finds Tax breaks to corporations in exchange for jobs are often modified—in secret—after the fact, a new study finds. Governing magazine reports that the University of Texas at Austin studied 165 awards given out by the Texas Enterprise Fund, which manages such corporate incentives for the […]
D.C. Plans Its Exit From the Motels It Uses As Homeless Shelters
www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/housing-complex/article/21049910/dc-plans-its-exit-from-the-motels-it-uses-as-homeless-shelters D.C. Plans Its Exit From the Motels It Uses As Homeless Shelters But advocates are worried that the move does not reflect a decline in need. Darrow MontgomeryD.C.’s Department of Human Services is preparing to wind down its use of motels as overflow homeless shelters, an email sent by the agency director shows. The […]
Abilene, Texas, eliminates veteran homelessness – CNN
www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/05/us/abilene-texas-homeless-veterans-trnd/index.html Abilene, Texas, found a way to house all its homeless veterans. Other cities want to know the secret (CNN) — Roughly 40,000 veterans are homeless in America every single day, according to a report by the US Interagency Council on Homelessness. Yet the Texas city of Abilene has succeeded at something that only eight […]
The Preservation of Subsidized Housing | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/preservation-subsidized-housing Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
New Bill Would Penalize D.C. Landlords Who Discriminate Against Housing Voucher Holders | DCist
dcist.com/story/19/03/05/new-bill-would-penalize-d-c-landlords-who-discriminate-against-housing-voucher-holders/ New Bill Would Penalize D.C. Landlords Who Discriminate Against Housing Voucher Holders At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman introduced a bill on Tuesday that would increase penalties for landlords who refuse to rent to people who use federal rental assistance vouchers (previously called Section 8 vouchers) to pay their rent. It’s already technically illegal for landlords […]
Homes owned by black Americans are undervalued by billions of dollars
www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/homes-owned-by-black-americans-are-undervalued-by-billions-of-dollars-1382920259701 Mary Bolton 202-390-1208
City of Abilene becomes first city in Texas to house all homeless veterans, 9th in America | KEYE
cbsaustin.com/news/local/city-of-abilene-becomes-first-city-in-texas-to-house-all-homeless-veterans-9th-in-america City of Abilene becomes first city in Texas to house all homeless veterans, 9th in America ABILENE, Texas — The City of Abilene is the first city in Texas and ninth in America to house all homeless veterans. In October, Abilene Mayor Anthony Williams launched the Mayor’s Challenge to end veterans’ homelessness within 100 […]