“Home-ownership is one of the most important ways a family is able to build and transfer wealth from one generation to the next. In that light, and with the ever-increasing cost of living in this city, preserving home ownership opportunities is critical in predominantly black and brown communities like ours…”
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‘It Does Something to Your Soul When Everyone Losing Their Homes Looks Like You’ | Politico
In Durham, a young lawyer raised in public housing teaches elite law students to save poor people from eviction.
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Detroit’s focus on supportive housing drives down homelessness 15 percent | Michigan Chronicle
The reduction is credited to the “Housing First” approach to homelessness, which provides permanent supportive housing with wraparound services to ensure success, as opposed to temporary shelter.
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Develop Detroit cultivates affordable housing in the Motor City | Michigan Chronicle
Since its inception in June, 2015, Develop Detroit, which received startup capital from JPMorgan Chase, has been on a mission that focuses on real estate development and providing living opportunities that meet the real needs of Detroiters.
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She fought for her community as a Black Panther. Will gentrification force her out? | The Guardian
In America’s ‘hottest housing market’, one woman’s fight to keep her home has become a rallying cry against the displacement of communities of color.
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Public Advocate Letitia James releases list of city’s worst landlords | New York Amsterdam News
Public Advocate Letitia James released the 2017 Worst Landlords Watchlist, an annual database of the worst landlords in New York City.
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Housing inequality is a failure to govern, and the market is not the answer
We need to change the way we think about housing. Like access to education and health, having a home is a human right.
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Will D.C.’s Housing Ever Be Affordable Again?
Over the next decade, the city’s demographics will change dramatically, and housing policy will largely determine who gets to stay.
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