Job alert!📢 My team at is hiring a Policy Program Associate to help execute external projects and internal efforts focused on innovative research and solutions to advance racial equity. Come join our team! #jobs #racialequity
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(She/her) Researching housing +homelessness | BA PhD | I like drinking coffee outside | All views my own
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What most influences homelessness in a community? Not mental illness, drug use, or poverty. It’s housing market conditions—such as the cost and availability of rental housing.
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Great examples of what local cross-sector partnerships can do to encourage stronger approaches to treatment, rather than jail! Cost effective and effective!
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Listen to "Help! Not Police! Crisis Responses That Avert Police Calls," by Sandra Larson. shelterforce.org/?p=37592
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Director of Data Visualization and Storytelling . Come work with me, , and a huge team of amazing researchers across a wide range of sectors and policies. |
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"What once seemed a blue-state coastal problem has increasingly become a national one." reports on 's new #HousingUnderproduction report
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RAIL! RAIL!
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Do people (Americans) realize the next generation of high-speed rail coming to market could whisk you from the center of Chicago to the center of NYC in 2.5 hours with no airport hassle and we are literally buying highway expansions instead of this?
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Hello Friends! I’m excited to share the release of my book, Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis, published by the Russell Sage Foundation. It is available for pre-order, though numerous buyers have already received their books.
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Elongated approval processes also increase the financial risk of development, even when NIMBY is not an issue. The result is many deals simply never happen. Localities only need three or four months to make residential land use decisions, anything more is unnecessary.
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No question that "elongated approval processes" give opponents multiple chances to choke off #AffordableHousing developments. uses the #FairHousingAct to help developers get past these speed bumps.
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So cool!
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Do you love data? Do you love the opportunity to create housing and sustain housing? Do you love having amazing co workers? Apply to these jobs!
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Data Quality Analyst (Administrative Staff)
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Study found housing finance agencies incentivize health in LIHTC developments in 4 main ways:
- construction materials & methods
- on-site services
- siting near specific health amenities
- location in areas that score high on an opportunity index
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New on the blog from explores whether proposed reforms to the Community Reinvestment will expand access to lending for many historically excluded households & neighborhoods.
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Regulators recently proposed substantial updates to the Community Reinvestment Act, which was designed to combat redlining.
Do the proposed changes go far enough to advance racial equity?
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How do housing orgs handle onsite crises to avoid unnecessary police response? My story highlights efforts in public & supportive housing to use de-escalation & in-house or non-police responses before calling 911.
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Last fall, 154 economists filed an amicus brief against the abortion ban, outlining decades of research on how unwanted pregnancies can affect women’s education, employment, and earning prospects.
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Updated tool: Explore the geography of debt in America at the national, state, and county levels. How does your community compare?
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Great article highlighting the bundle of policies that should be paired with zoning reform to maximize impact
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This study of unhoused Echo Park Lake encampment residents who were displaced in 2021 found that of the 84 residents researchers followed over a year, only 4 are now housed (via )
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A great dashboard with information gathered on dozens of short-term rental ordinances from cities across the country #housing
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Republican Kettering Mayor Peggy Lehner, a former state rep and state senator, has called on to veto HB99 (allowing school staff to be armed with guns).
"Please fulfill the promise you made just two days after nine people were killed in Dayton."
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Good afternoon.
Today the team I supervise decided that on every nonpayment of rent eviction case we encountered where the property is not a certified rental under city code we would be asking for a dismissal.
And it worked.
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OH is hearing HB 99 allowing teachers in the classroom with guns with 22 hrs of training and no req to tell parents. Please testify / call (helpful details below). please don't make schools MORE even more dangerous to our kids by signing this
New blog post: 3 reasons expanding access to homeownership alone won't close the racial wealth gap.
2. The benefits of homeownership are smaller for people of color, while the costs and risks are larger.
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New from : How direct cash transfers can deliver housing assistance more efficiently & equitably. urbn.is/3LODntj
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This is a good summary of what gun-focused legislation has been proposed and passed at the state level. Voting can only do so much with our gerrymandered maps, but let's stop voting for people who support unimpeded gun access with no checks
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OHIO: Here are the gun laws your legislators are considering this General Assembly.
I'll be putting which party proposed it, what it does and the status 
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OHIO: Here are the gun laws your legislators are considering this General Assembly.
I'll be putting which party proposed it, what it does and the status 🧵
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With grants from , six HFAs will take part in a program to develop strategic partnerships with hospitals and other health organizations to finance affordable housing. bit.ly/3lz6GWb
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.'s : "Energy efficiency upgrades increase a building’s net operating income, boost the building’s property value, & ultimately expand the building owner’s access to capital." (via )
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🏘 So proud to launch the Just Home Project, a new effort designed to advance community-driven efforts to break the link between housing instability and incarceration. #RethinkJails
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.@KellyACWalsh: "Homelessness, housing insecurity and participation in the criminal justice system are just simply deeply intertwined, in part because of the criminalization of homelessness itself." (via @sarahsholder) urbn.is/3LnaHr3
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.: "Homelessness, housing insecurity and participation in the criminal justice system are just simply deeply intertwined, in part because of the criminalization of homelessness itself." (via )
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The new Just Home project is supporting work in 4 sites (Charleston County, SC; Minnehaha County, SD; City and County of San Francisco, CA; and Tulsa County, OK) to break the jail-homelessness cycle.
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Projections show there will be 3.8 million new older adult households between 2020- 2040, with 40% (5.5 million) of those being renter households, reports .
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Today , we launched our Cracking the Zoning Code feature! This digital tool is designed to break down the elements of zoning—with a focus on its contributions to housing affordability & racial equity.
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