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.
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 · Fairfax, CA: Measure I passed by a wide margin, with Fairfax voters approving the removal of the town’s just-cause eviction laws and rent control, originally put in place in 2022. Oroville, CA: Measure N passed, allowing an 18-unit housing project for low-income residents to go forward in the city. The project will be managed by the local housing authority.
Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing
Oct 2, 2024 · By now it is no secret that the housing crisis is on the minds of many voters going to the polls in November. The frontrunning presidential candidates, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, agree that the crisis must be urgently addressed.
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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.
Who Could Lead HUD Under a Second Trump Administration?
Nov 22, 2024 · [Editor’s note: Trump announced just after publication that he will nominate Scott Turner, a former NFL player and House representative for Texas from 2013 to 2017, to lead HUD.Turner currently serves as the chair of the Center for Education Opportunity at America First Policy Institute, and was the executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s ...
Sweden’s Housing Co-ops Offer a Model for Moderate-Income …
Oct 25, 2024 · Housing prices and interest rates are up in a very sparse market, and housing production is down. But now, with limited social housing options, there are far fewer municipally owned housing apartments at a reasonable price or rent for moderate-income families.
States Are Using This Tool to Keep LIHTC Housing Affordable for …
Sep 13, 2024 · This decade, the U.S. could lose nearly half a million affordable housing units. That’s because those units were built in the 90s using federal low-income housing tax credits, which require property owners to keep units affordable for 30 years.Once that protection expires, landlords are legally allowed to charge higher market-rate rents.
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Jan 9, 2025 · Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.