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SOURCE: New York University
A new IESP-Furman study examines the effect of home foreclosures on student mobility, finding that the foreclosure crisis resulted in affected students switching schools more often than they would have otherwise, and, on average, to schools with academically weaker peers. Overall, the results ...
SOURCE: The Pueblo Chieftain (chieftain.com), 9/18/11
Volunteers numbering 540 and organized by NeighborWorks Pueblo, Colorado’s, Operation Paintbrush helped spruce up 30 houses in one day. Volunteers, residents and organization staff note how improving one house leads to improvements in nearby homes, enhancing the whole neighborhood. Each ...
SOURCE: Fairfield-Echo.com, 9/20/11
Three nonprofits in Butler County, Ohio, are collaborating to offer a microenterprise and microloan program to qualified low-income would-be entrepreneurs. The three organizations, Supports to Encourage Low-Income Families, BizTech Center and Neighborhood Housing Services of Hamilton, offer an ...
SOURCE: Center for Community Progress
Community Progress is launching a new interactive resource for communities, individuals, and policy makers interested in improving their neighborhoods through strategic green reuse of vacant land. Grounds for Change: Activating Vacant Land is designed to inspire implementation in your community, ...
SOURCE: Brookings
Both poverty and immigration have increased over the past decade, and both are growing faster in suburbs than in cities in the largest metropolitan areas, according to a new paper by Roberto Suro, Jill Wilson and Audrey Singer. With immigrants now representing one in every five suburban ...
SOURCE: National Housing Institute
As the housing crisis continues to affect individual families, communities and local economies, housing advocates are considering a variety of alternatives to traditional homeownership. One important strategy is shared equity housing. Shared equity housing programs ensure the long-term ...
SOURCE: National Housing Institute
Creating permanently affordable housing through shared equity programs may be the answer in helping low- and moderate-income families improve their circumstances. This report explores the shared equity model and describes why it is the best answer for some families as opposed to conventional ...
SOURCE: School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
Design and implementation problems are among the criticisms regarding the federal policy responses to the foreclosure crisis. Even though federal responses intended to reduce foreclosures as well as mitigate the impacts on neighborhoods, this author points out how policies fell profoundly short ...
SOURCE: DS News, 9/16/11
At the Five Star Default Servicing Conference and Expo, neighborhood stabilization and the involvement of local nonprofits were part of the curriculum. Nonprofit housing organizations are partnering up with lenders and government agencies to minimize neighborhood blight caused by vacant ...
SOURCE: HUD
On September 8, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and proposed the American Jobs Act, containing a variety of incentives and programs aimed at getting more Americans back to work.
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