LIHTC: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Complicated - Shelterforce
Under the Lens. LIHTC: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Complicated. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable housing.
‘We-Making’: How Arts and Culture Build Social Cohesion
Jan 3, 2022 · With support from these funders, Metris Arts Consulting examined the complex relationships between the arts, place, and social cohesion, conducting interviews and a literature review and producing a draft report. Then, in 2019 and 2020, PolicyLink and the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine brought in additional perspectives from artists, public health practitioners, racial ...
Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing Shelterforce
Jan 9, 2025 · Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.
Reagan’s Legacy: Homelessness in America - Shelterforce
May 1, 2004 · Another of Reagan’s enduring legacies is the steep increase in the number of homeless people, which by the late 1980s had swollen to 600,000 on any given night – and 1.2 million over the course of a year.
Tiny House Villages in Seattle: An Efficient Response to Our ...
Mar 15, 2019 · In 2017, I wrote a piece for Shelterforce on Seattle’s then-emerging effort to build tiny houses to shelter homeless families, couples, and singles. Over the past three years, Seattle has led the country in piloting this response to the homelessness crisis. There are now 10 tiny house villages located throughout Seattle on government, …
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.
What Is NIMBYism and How Do Affordable Housing ... - Shelterforce
Nov 17, 2021 · This is a thoughtful breakdown of NIMBYism and its impact on affordable housing development. It’s frustrating to see how often these local objections hinder progress, especially when communities are in dire need of more affordable options.
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.
How Are LIHTC Rules Enforced—And How Well? - Shelterforce
Nov 15, 2023 · The nation’s largest and most important mechanism for funding affordable housing, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC, pronounced “lie-tech”) program, awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable housing.In exchange for receiving the tax credits, developments must be run according to rules about ...
Understanding Community Land Trusts - Shelterforce
Jul 12, 2021 · do clt homeowners build assets? Yes!. While concerns are often raised that limits on resale prices restrict CLT homeowners’ ability to build meaningful equity, it turns out CLTs are actually a powerful tool for asset building.. Because of who is targeted, land trust homeowners are generally people who would have been renting otherwise, not people who had access to homes with no resale ...