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Miriam Axel Lute

Albany

CEO and Editor-in-Chief at Shelterforce

Shelterforce editor, parent, small-city lover, folkie-hippie-leftie-professional mish-mash, good natured but generally opinionated. pronouns: she/her

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  • 3 weeks ago | shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Lara Heard |Shelby R. King |Miriam Axel Lute

    What’s Happened With Housing Since Trump Came Into Office Our running list of major federal housing actions since Jan. 20. Photo by Douglas Rissing via iStockphoto On April 30, we published a roundup, organized by category, of the major housing and community development–related actions and changes we’d seen in the first 100 days of this administration.

  • 1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Lara Heard |Shelby R. King |Miriam Axel Lute

    The last 100 days have been—to make an incredible understatement—overwhelming. On every front, a radical administration has not only shifted the political orientation of the government, as is expected with a change of leadership, but departed from the underlying laws, norms, and processes that have defined the country for its entire existence. The pace and volume of change has, intentionally, made it hard to focus.

  • 1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Miriam Axel Lute

    NeighborWorks America (NWA) is a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that supports a network of nearly 250 local organizations in creating and sustaining affordable housing, including through homeownership. At the end of last week, alarm rippled through the community development world as news spread that NeighborWorks had been assigned a team from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

  • 2 months ago | shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Miriam Axel Lute

    Fifty years ago this week, news was being made in New Jersey that would get coverage in Shelterforce’s very first issue—a decision in the case of Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Township of Mount Laurel. That New Jersey Supreme Court ruling, together with a subsequent one, formed what is known as the Mount Laurel Doctrine, which requires that all New Jersey municipalities provide their “fair share” of the affordable housing needed in the state.

  • Feb 5, 2025 | shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Miriam Axel Lute

    We talk quite a lot about investors and speculators in in the housing world these days. People say that “investors” are buying up single-family homes and “speculators” are sitting on empty lots. But the terms are often used interchangeably, or at least imprecisely, with any private for-profit owner other than an individual called an investor, and anyone we really don’t like called a speculator.

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