homelessness
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News Round-Up: Funding Housing, Ending Homelessness
Sunday morning, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry hosted a wide-ranging discussion on the aspects of America’s housing crisis that don’t get the attention they deserve: namely, housing discrimination, the impact of foreclosure on renters and the shortage of housing affordable to the lowest income Americans. In the discussion’s first segment, panelists James Perry, former NLIHC board member and Continue reading
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Ending the Shortage of Affordable Housing with Housing Tax Reform
We’ve written often about the shortage of rental housing affordable and available to the lowest income Americans. This shortage complicates our national efforts to end homelessness, and makes it harder for the growing population of chronically underemployed workers to find decent housing they can afford. A significant part of this real and serious problem is Continue reading
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Home for the Holidays
If you could ask for any gift this holiday season, what would it be? Would you want to take a trip around the world? To have that car you’ve been dreaming about since you were a kid? Or would you prefer something less tangible, like more time with the people you love? If we could Continue reading
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What will you give on Giving Tuesday?
Over $11.2 billion spent. Participation up 26% over one year ago. These, of course, are figures from Black Friday, America’s post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping tradition/abomination (depending on your point of view). Our nation’s retailers make one fifth or more of their sales in the last two months of the year, and our sluggish if improving economy Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Sacred Cows
In housing news this week, we found encouraging signs that the conventional wisdom about housing policy might be changing, and continued concern that not enough is being done to end poverty and suffering in our nation. CQ covers a new wrinkle in the tax debate raging in Washington: Willingness to let go of sacred cows. Continue reading
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