East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative’s Post

In December, the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga announced a new partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to accept a $5 million line of credit. These funds are to be used to finance affordable housing projects with favorable loan terms. RWJF is also partnering with community foundations in two other areas, Cincinnati, Ohio, and St. Paul, Minnesota - both of which are more than four times as large as ours. It's a high honor for Chattanooga and an indicator of our ability to lead to be selected as one of three from over 900 community foundations across the country. #GenerosityTransforms #PartnerForGood

As part of an agreement to replace the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, #Georgia, with a new stadium, Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons and the Atlanta United sports teams, committed the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation to support the #revitalization of the English Avenue, Vine City, and Castleberry Hill neighborhoods surrounding the site of the proposed stadium. To help pay for these improvements, the Atlanta City Council approved an improvement plan in 2013 that established the Westside Tax Allocation District, including a $15 million community improvement fund for brick-and-mortar projects, and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation committed $15 million to the Westside Neighborhood Prosperity Fund for human services programs. To date, the foundation has contributed more than $106 million to Westside projects and programs. Read more on HUD User’s #PDREdge: https://lnkd.in/ee4fv3wC

We have all kinds of team builders in city hall...and they all seem to have some engineering degree or some other type of degrees...yet we have a poorly run city...it's time to cut manager numbers and budget overruns and growth on management payroll...less team building and better administration of the true owners money bag...hire the person that came to deal with the bad administrators of LHSC and waste of taxpayers money....I know city hall can afford to get rid of lots of managers and tie compensation structure for administrators with tax increases...we must do more with less management and with less money...no other business can be sustainable with the current funding model and business culture and model used by the corporation of the city of London...An analysis by The Canadian Press identified 17 charities whose top executive drew annual compensation that was in the $200,000 to $250,000 range or higher, according to filings with the federal government made in 2022 and 2023.Opposition building to proposed cut to community grants: 'Vital services' https://lnkd.in/gJRZxT-A

🏡 FHLB Dallas and Stellar Bank awarded $85,000 in Partnership Grant Program (PGP) funding to three Houston-based nonprofits: Community Development Corporation of Freedmens Town, Houston Real Estate Association CDC and Credit Coalition Read the full press release: https://ow.ly/F8eo50UlfFu 💡 These grants will support initiatives such as financial literacy, homebuyer education and free financial coaching for low- to moderate-income residents. #CommunityImpact #AffordableHousing #FinancialLiteracy #Houston #FHLBDallas #StellarBank

🚨🚨🚨 NFHA’s latest #FairHousingTrends Report is out now! There were 34,150 fair housing complaints in 2023, the highest number of fair housing complaints recorded since NFHA began producing its Trends Report in the mid-1990s. Private nonprofit fair housing organizations processed the vast majority (75.52 percent) of these complaints, underscoring the need for lawmakers to allocate sustainable funding to support their critical work. Read the full report at https://bit.ly/4bnomvl and use the interactive map to find out how many instances of housing discrimination were reported in YOUR state to private nonprofit fair housing organizations, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Housing Assistance Programs, and the U.S. Department of Justice.

In Washington state, the King County Housing Authority (KCHA) uses site-based affordability strategies that enhance access to existing and emerging opportunity neighborhoods, mostly by preserving affordable housing through the acquisition of hard units in these areas. Over the past three decades, these strategies have preserved or made available thousands of additional affordable units in high-resource sections of KCHA’s service area. These strategies include acquiring and preserving workforce housing, purchasing smaller apartment complexes to convert to public housing, and layering project-based voucher subsidies onto regional nonprofit development. Read more on HUD User’s #PDREdge: https://lnkd.in/geAEHTRP

During National Fair Housing Month, revisit AFN's brief, Heirs' Property: Acting to Preserve Wealth. Heirs’ property issues continue to be deeply entrenched in Black, Latino, and other socioeconomically disadvantaged communities across the country. Philanthropy has a vital role to play in tackling these issues and, in doing so, contributing to greater economic security in these communities. Greater philanthropic involvement in this work is imperative to the preservation and stewardship of land and other property that has been passed down, and continues to be passed down, among families in disadvantaged communities. Read the brief: https://loom.ly/uEbSNGI JPMorgan Chase & Co. Wells Fargo Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Communities Foundation of Texas #HeirsProperty #Funders

🚨🚨🚨 NFHA’s latest #FairHousingTrends Report is out now! There were 34,150 fair housing complaints in 2023, the highest number of fair housing complaints recorded since the National Fair Housing Alliance began producing its Trends Report in the mid-1990s. Private nonprofit fair housing organizations processed the vast majority (75.52 percent) of these complaints, underscoring the need for lawmakers to allocate sustainable funding to support their critical work. Read the full report at https://bit.ly/4bnomvl and use the interactive map to find out how many instances of housing discrimination were reported in YOUR state to private nonprofit fair housing organizations, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Housing Assistance Programs, and the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Dedham Savings Community Foundation has made a grant to Peak House Heritage Center. The funds - presented here by Marcella Musto to Rick Hooker and Rob Babson - will be used to restore eleven historic Elizabethan-style windows in the 313-year-old Peak House, a historical landmark located in Medfield. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4jgy5Zq #Community #CommunityFoundation #Local #HereForTheJourney #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors #CommunitySupport

🚨🚨🚨 NFHA’s latest #FairHousingTrends Report is out now! There were 34,150 fair housing complaints in 2023, the highest number of fair housing complaints recorded since NFHA began producing its Trends Report in the mid-1990s. Private nonprofit fair housing organizations processed the vast majority (75.52 percent) of these complaints, underscoring the need for lawmakers to allocate sustainable funding to support their critical work. Read the full report at https://bit.ly/4bnomvl and use the interactive map to find out how many instances of housing discrimination were reported in YOUR state to private nonprofit fair housing organizations, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Housing Assistance Programs, and the U.S. Department of Justice.