How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD — Shelterforce …
Sep 26, 2024 · In anticipation of a Republican ascension to the White House, The Heritage Foundation—a right-wing think tank pushing regressive, oppressive, often draconian ideas—released a new “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” the latest edition in a series of books meant to guide conservative policies in the federal government.
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.
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 · Los Angeles County: Voters approved Measure A to replace an existing ¼ cent sales tax to fund homelessness services and housing that was going to expire in a few years with a 1/2 cent per dollar sales tax for similar purposes that would not have an expiration date. The new tax’s uses will have more of a focus on prevention, such as rent relief and legal services to prevent evictions.
Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing Shelterforce
Dec 13, 2024 · Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.
They Had No Heat for Four Months. A New Law Let Them Sue.
Aug 7, 2024 · Reported Article State & Local Policy. They Had No Heat for Four Months. A New Law Let Them Sue. In New York state, tenants can now take landlords to court to force repairs and get damages, without withholding rent first.
Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing
Oct 2, 2024 · Accessible Homeownership. To address the bleak reality of millions of Americans being priced out of homeownership, the Harris campaign proposes $25,000 downpayment support for first-time homebuyers to complement its plans to increase the supply of starter homes.The proposal aims to reach more than 4 million first-time homebuyers over four years.
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.
Could This Rolling Rent Strike Make the Feds Protect Tenants?
Oct 4, 2024 · However, upon looking more closely at the loans for many of these distressed multifamily rental properties, Gourevitch says the TUF research team has found that “the loan terms are, for lack of a better word, wild.First of all, [the lenders are] backing properties that are clearly already in financial distress, and so they seem to be pretty loose in their requirements of what types of ...
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.