New Issue: Shelterforce: Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building

Posted by on November 26, 2004

[posted from Comm-Org listserv]

Shelterforce Magazine, November 2004
For Immediate Release

Does this Affordable Housing Make Things Worse?
Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects produce most of the subsidized affordable housing in America. But in Camden, New Jersey and Hartford, Connecticut, advocates contend these projects have led to increased poverty concentration and segregation. Housing developers counter that their goal is not to achieve race and class integration, but to shake up the market in stagnant neighborhoods.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/137/LIHTC.html

The Government?s Best-Kept Secret for Growing Wealth
Overlooked and underutilized, the Family Self-Sufficiency program can help residents of public and subsidized housing build up their savings. It will take community partnerships for FSS to live up to its full potential.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/137/FSS.html

Breaking down Barriers in the Construction Trades
A Newark-based program uses public facilities projects to break down barriers in the construction trades to people with low incomes. The program is helping these groups to get jobs in what some people are calling ?the new manufacturing.?
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/137/breakingground.html

After the Election:
Building Electoral Power for City Residents and Young People
From housing to economic development, the Bush Administration has tried to cut programs and services that help cities grow and prosper. Despite some improvements, neighborhoods continue to see prosperity pass them by.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/137/urbanneglect.html

Meanwhile, millions of new voters have been registered in the past year, many by community-based organizations. But the work of civic empowerment goes far beyond one election. Nonprofits also need to educate and mobilize voters.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/137/novote.html

Meanwhile, the Hip-Hop generation?s first political convention may lead to new political awareness for millions of young people across the country.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/137/hiphop.html

Important reading in the new issue of Shelterforce, the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building