Week of February 3, 2025
Miriam Axel-Lute, Shelterforce
The day after a judge put a temporary block on a federal funding freeze, the administration rescinded the memo that started it all. Here's why mixed messaging has left advocates confused--and housing funds in jeopardy. Read Full Article or Listen
Karen Black, May 8 Consulting
Decades of increasing costs and deferred maintenance could lead to people losing their homes, unless changes are made. Read Full Article?
Roshan Abraham, Shelterforce
A lease agreement with the city of Sacramento allowed encampment residents to stay indefinitely while they sought permanent housing. When the agreement fell apart, the residents, many of whom are disabled, say they were left without an accessible place to go. Read Full Article
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You Said It
Karen Westmont: Thank you much for the summary. All your work is astonishingly amazing. I’m grateful. Here, the entirety of housing program affordability is nuttier than described. Before seeing such details, remember our history: affordable rents used to be 20% of actual income, then 25% of actual income, now to 30% of the top of the range in which you qualify. Thus, today, rents are at least 30% of income and go up to…50% and even more . . . Read More
Mike O’Brien: Excellent profile of the various bureaucratic measures of affordability and the games they lead to. The basis of “affordability” is that in America, housing is too scarce, so rents and prices are very high, and these rules attempt to allocate a very limited supply more equitably . . . Read More
Jazzy Green: Getting rid of these programs will only add to the already extremely high homeless population. Which will then cause rent to increase even more. Since there will be a high demand to rent. Rent is already high all across the nation. And keeps going up every year. This will not only affect the low income families that are these programs. But also the “working class” and “middle class” Americans as well. Read More
Jobs
Real Estate Development Program Manager, CASA of Oregon, Sherwood ? CASA of Oregon seeks a real estate development program manager. The position is responsible for the development of multi-family housing, single-family housing, and community facility projects and helps determine the course of CASA’s development program. The role oversees . . . Read Full Listing
Real Estate Development Director, Community Frameworks, Spokane or Seattle, WA ? Community Frameworks, an affordable housing developer based in Spokane, Washington, with a second office in Bremerton, and serving the Pacific Northwest, is hiring the organization’s next real estate development director with strong management and team building skills to continue a legacy . . . Read Full Listing
Executive Director, Brookline Housing Authority, Brookline, MA ? The Brookline Housing Authority (BHA) seeks an executive director. The BHA serves more than 2500 Brookline residents with housing and services programs. The executive director leads the staff, is BHA’s primary public face, and sets direction for the BHA together with the Board . . . Read Full Listing?
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