❤️🖤💚 For our final Urban Visionaries Thursdays of #BlackHistoryMonth, we celebrate Karen Bass's impactful contributions to housing equity in Los Angeles! Mayor Bass has been at the forefront of housing initiatives, from recently announcing the Housing for All Act with Senator Alex Padilla and Congressman Ted Lieu to securing resources for eviction defense and multifamily affordable housing. Under her leadership, thousands of emergency housing vouchers have been utilized to provide permanent housing for unhoused Angelenos, and working groups have been organized to identify surplus land for affordable housing development. Most notably for us, Mayor Bass has successfully enacted Executive Directive 1 (ED1) as soon as she took office. ED1 expedites 100% affordable housing projects, simplifying a complex approval process. ED1 has seen the approval of more affordable units than any other policy in the past decade. Though tasked with the challenge that is Los Angeles’s housing landscape, Mayor Bass's commitment to addressing homelessness and increasing affordable housing production has been successful and remains unwavering. Let's honor her work and continue the fight for housing justice in Los Angeles as we head to the polls for the presidential primaries to vote for more pro-housing leaders on March 5th! 🌟🏙️ See our other honorees throughout the month on our Instagram page! https://lnkd.in/gx2MXgxf #UrbanVisionariesThursdays #HousingEquity #BlackHistoryMonth
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San Diego's housing crisis is more than just a shortage—it's an affordability crisis. Mayor Gloria's push for dense development without proper infrastructure has led to a mass exodus and compromised our city's livability. We need a plan that prioritizes community input, enforces affordable housing promises, and streamlines the permitting process to ensure we meet our housing goals and protect our neighborhoods. As your Mayor, I'll focus on genuine solutions, accountability, and preserving what makes San Diego great. #larryturnerformayor #SanDiegoHousingCrisis #lt4sd #sandiego #sandiegopolitics #AffordableHousingSD
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In the article below, Lee Patke, Executive Director of Greccio Housing, shares GPR's journey of the Bentley Commons Development- from a dream to reality. Affordable housing isn't just about shelter; it's about preserving our community's vitality. As Erika Tunson, principal of Monterey Elementary, rightly points out, it's an investment in our future, ensuring teachers and families in Southeast #ColoradoSprings can thrive without the burden of high housing costs. Read the full article here➡https://lnkd.in/dqj4BM-g
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Exclusionary zoning: regulations that severely restrict the amount and types of housing that can be built in many areas. https://ow.ly/ehql50SlHse
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Vermont's toolkit takes a comprehensive approach from permitting to financing. It will look at zoning as a foundation and visualize missing middle housing types, so people can wrap their heads around what it looks like. https://lnkd.in/ebp7yWpR #AffordableHousing #missingmiddle
PROMOTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING
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When folks come to me and ask why we at United Way haven’t “solved” poverty yet here is one aspect of that conversation that bears repeating and deserves exploration... Housing, policy, influx of investments, and so on. The issue is complex. Check out the series linked below for a bit more:
Does the lack of affordable housing in San Francisco affect Oakland? Does it affect Vallejo? YES. Check out this clip from EP 4 of our Just A Moment series that explains why we are focussed on a bigger picture of supporting #HousingJustice across all 8 Bay Area counties. We also delve into the historical roots of current housing inequities and discuss how solutions like social housing, emphasize sustainability and inclusivity compared to traditional public housing. Visit https://okt.to/bIaxvB to see the full episode featuring Housing Justice Director Karen Nemsick and South San Francisco City Council Member, James C.! #TheWorkUWBA #JustAMoment #AffordableHousingMonth
Just A Moment Episode 4: Housing Justice
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Producing new housing has to be a "shared responsibility," said @New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams at the @NYU Furman Center's Policy Breakfast in February. New York City official are hopeful that two new packages of laws—the City Council’s Fair Housing Framework and Mayor Eric Adams’ proposed City of Yes for Housing Opportunity plan—will work in tandem to fairly and equitably produce new housing across the city and ensure every single neighborhood contributes to solving the city’s acute housing crisis. "We have to normalize a shared responsibility of addressing the housing crisis across all neighborhoods and establish clear expectations and targets that are localized and transparent to all of us,” said Speaker Adams during the panel. “We’re all in this together.” Read @NYU Furman Center's @Benjamin Hitchcock, @Shannon Flores, and @Elizabeth (Nikki) Miller story https://buff.ly/48qiXly #newyorkcity #housing #affordablehousing #equity #fairhousing #housingcrisis
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Earlier this year, Paavo Monkkonen, Aaron Barrall, and Aurora Echavarria authored, “Meaningful Action: Evaluating Local Government Plans to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing in California,” arguing that “standardizing reporting requirements for housing element programs, as HCD [The State of California’s Housing Department] recently did for the sites’ inventories in 2021, may seem like a small change, yet it could make AFFH programs meaningful by improving state review,” along with other policy ideas. And just two weeks ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan housing package, which includes legislation aimed at strengthening local government reporting requirements around advancing furthering fair housing (AB2667) that aligns with many of the recommendations! To read the full article published by Housing Policy Debate Journal, check out https://lnkd.in/gfQQ4CGE To read the complete details of the bill passed, check out https://lnkd.in/gSADXtyF
Meaningful Action: Evaluating Local Government Plans to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing in California
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Habitat’s Jeff Head met with The Real Deal's Emma Whalen to discuss Illinois’ #AffordableHousingPlanningandAppealAct and the significant challenges it has faced over the past 20 years. As Vice President of Development at #HabitatAffordableGroup, Jeff highlights a crucial issue: the additional costs—both financial and emotional—developers face due to the extensive educational and political processes involved. As Jeff states, "Affordable housing gets a lot of people’s nerves agitated as it is. If there is a big education process and a significant political argument involved, it increases the financial cost and the emotional cost of going in and digging into an argument for a project that a significant portion of people don’t want." The recent amendments to the law aim to address these challenges by allowing local housing nonprofits and potential residents to appeal the denial of affordable housing proposals. These changes may provide a much-needed boost to affordable housing initiatives across the state. Read the full article to learn more about the complexities and future of #affordablehousing in Illinois: https://lnkd.in/g8WyKwyG #CommunityDevelopment #IllinoisHousing #Habitat
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On December 19th, the City of Charlottesville voted unanimously to pass historic zoning legislation after almost 7 years of hard work by activists, community members, city staff, city leaders, consultants and experts across the region, pivoting from decades of exclusionary practices and expanding housing opportunity for future generations. The enacted code: • Abolished single family zoning for the entirety of the city of Charlottesville; • Implemented measures to slow displacement in lower-wealth, higher density neighborhoods; and • Established mandatory inclusionary zoning requirements for affordable housing. These are first steps towards becoming a more inclusive city and we, together with the Charlottesville Low-Income Housing Coalition (co-founded by Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR) will continue to fight for housing for all in the region.
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Yesterday we hosted our CIE Community Quarterly convening and learned a lot about the state of housing in Colorado along with the historical inequities and disparities that still impede us today. Thank you, Peter LiFari, for a wonderful presentation. Your insights and advocacy of affordable housing being something each citizen should enjoy. A couple key statements from Peter that really resonated were... 💡 “The future of housing is in the sky.“ (Based on density, environmental, social and community needs.) 💡 "Do we want MORE homeless or MORE housing?” 🤔 Housing values were a key takeaway from our discussion. Below are some things to consider: 🏠 Housing stability is national security 🏠 Housing is Civil Rights 🏠 Everyone needs a home to thrive 🏠 Housing abundance drives housing affordability 🏠 Housing is a continuum 🏠 Homebuilders are not the enemy 🏠 Filtering is real 🏠 The Market will not produce homes < 60%AMI without subsidy 🏠 Inclusionary Zoning alone will not solve your affordability challenges 🏠 Rent Control is a False Idol #inclusiveeconomy
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