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ICE Is Coming to Your Building-Are You Ready?

1 week ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Immigrant communities in the United States are on edge. And rightly so—President Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric and draconian deportation policies are wreaking havoc on folks’ sense of security. As a result of the fear mongering, families are going into hiding, says Adriana Quintero, a leader at The Family Center/La Familia, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the immigrant community in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Clybourne Park on Stage, Housing Inequity in Real Life-A Post-Show Reflection

2 weeks ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Review Neighborhood Change Watching a play about race, gentrification, and community set in a fictional South Chicago neighborhood in 1959 (Act 1) and 2009 (Act 2) while living through 2025 feels a little quaint.
There’s a Community Oversight Fight Brewing in the Bronx

3 weeks ago | shelterforce.org | Max Parrott

Since the 1990s the vacant Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx has become a landmark, not just of hulking bygone military architecture, but it’s also a symbol that represents city and developer attempts to impose proposals—from homeless shelters to shopping malls or ice rinks—on community residents. That was supposed to change two years ago when the city launched a new bid to repurpose the armory and enlisted community groups in its early planning.
In New Jersey, Pivotal Affordable Housing Decision Turns 50

3 weeks 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.
Six Reasons Why Housing Is a Human Right

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Fran Quigley

Or, sometimes, the emails. Writing about housing in media outlets can lead to pushback, especially when referring to housing as a human right. “Housing is a human right? How?” a reader named “Stabilizer” asked in response to one of my columns. “Housing is a human NEED. Also food, sex, and vacations on a nice tropical beach.”A local lawyer emailed me directly, in part to criticize our law school clinic’s work representing low-income tenants facing eviction.
Section 8 Under Trump: How Policy Uncertainty Is Affecting Affordable Housing

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Skip to main content Reported Article Public Housing Idaho is one of the nation’s most seismically active states, so people living in Ada County, home to Boise, aren’t typically surprised when an earthquake hits. But Jan.
What's Going On With the HUD Budget?

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Top TakeawaysPotential Government Shutdown Looms: The U.S. federal government faces a partial shutdown starting March 15 if the Senate fails to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to extend funding through September. Senate Democrats oppose the House’s CR due to concerns over housing cost increases and Republican amendments, making its passage not a sure thing.
Mission-Driven or Profit-Driven? Enterprise’s Hidden Role in Mobile Home Park Purchases

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Top Takeaways:—Enterprise Community Partners, a major player in the affordable housing world, has a for-profit subsidiary, Bellwether Enterprise, that makes loans to companies purchasing mobile home parks. Some of those loans have been to a company known for raising rents to levels unaffordable to existing tenants. —Neither BWE nor Enterprise will state publicly what their mission-related standards are for mobile home park lending, or if they have any.
Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Top Takeaways—Across the U.S., private-equity firms, real estate investment firms, and other types of investors have been making multimillion-dollar purchases of “mobile” home communities. Many of these newer park owners have been called out by residents, housing activists, and policymakers for jacking up rents and making these communities unaffordable. —The outcry hasn’t led to much protection for households. Homeowners are especially vulnerable to property loss.
What’s in a Name? Investors vs Speculators

2 months ago | 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.