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📢 New Shelterforce newsletter just dropped!
✔️ NeighborWorks nonprofits squeezed by funding delays
✔️ KC tenants win after 247-day rent strike
✔️ Black beach club history fuels powerful LA art

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#HousingEquity #TenantRights #BlackJoy #Shelterforce

How do people respond to housing messages, and what works? Shelterforce’s Miriam Axel-Lute breaks down the most effective ways to message housing justice in today’s disinformation-driven climate.

🎧 Listen here: apple.co/4f4VKdR

#HousingJustice #MessagingMatters #Advocacy

Many renters with informal leases were locked out of COVID rental help because they couldn’t provide documentation. Simplifying aid rules is key to equity.

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#HousingPolicy #AffordableHousing #PandemicRelief

Most renters rejected by screening tools never learn why. Shelterforce digs into how this tech works—and who’s trying to stop the harm. 🔗 bit.ly/4e87vzK

#fairhousing #shelterforce

Occupational therapy is helping seniors thrive in supportive housing—not just survive.

Read the full story: bit.ly/477X4ui

#AgingInPlace #OT #SupportiveHousing

📰 Great article by @shelterforce.bsky.social and @nextcity.org laying out exactly how the Trump Administration's new tax law will severely undercut affordable housing progress.

For more from Shelby R. King: @shelby-r-king.bsky.social
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HUD’s agreement to share info with ICE is quietly driving families out of their homes, even when they’re eligible to stay.

Read: bit.ly/4mdSlvG

#HousingJustice #ImmigrantRights

Section 8. LIHTC. HUD cuts.

Trump’s housing plans could reshape it all.

Shelby R. King + housing developers break it down today, July 31.

Watch tonight: bit.ly/4mgBpEB
#Shelterforce #HUD #AffordableHousing

Affordable Housing Finance 101 The intricacies involved in building affordable housing can be difficult to understand. This explainer breaks down the foundational concepts.

Want to understand what’s really going on with affordable housing development?

Start here:

1. Hard and soft costs
2. Net operating income
3. Closing the gap

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#AffordableHousing #UrbanFinance #EquityInHousing

Homelessness often tests our communities—but what if faith and compassion led, instead of fear? In this striking poem, Matthew Richards challenges us to see beyond discomfort and choose radical empathy.

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#HousingJustice #EndHomelessness #Poetry

What’s next for affordable housing under Trump?

Join Shelby R. King + housing leaders on July 31 for a forum on:
- LIHTC & Section 8
- HUD cuts
- What advocates can do now

Register: bit.ly/4mgBpEB
#HousingJustice #AffordableHousing #HUD

Trump’s First 100 Days: What’s Happened with Housing? Shelterforce compiled the major actions of the second Trump administration related to HUD, affordable housing, and community development.

Want to prepare for the discussion? Check out our overview of the administration’s first housing moves here: shelterforce.org/2025/04/30/t...

Housing Communicators: Don’t Water Down Your Values to Appeal to Opponents Podcast Episode · Shelterforce · 07/22/2025 · 11m

Americans care about housing, and they think the government should help. What is lacking is intensity of support. To reach a wider audience, here's how we should talk about housing.

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#HousingAdvocacy #NarrativePower #MessagingMatters #HousingCrisis

Black & Latine renters were hit hardest by COVID rent struggles—but many didn’t get emergency aid. Our Shelterforce article explains why documentation hurdles and fear stopped them.

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#Rent #RentalAssistance #Illinois #RacialJustice

Shelterforce reporter Shelby R. King joins a July 31 virtual forum at 10 pm EST on the future of affordable housing under Trump.
Topics:
✅ LIHTC funding
✅ Section 8 vouchers
✅ HUD budget cuts
Register here: bit.ly/4mgBpEB
#AffordableHousing #HUD #Shelterforce #LIHTC (edited)

Senior housing, reimagined: 12 cottage homes, HUD-approved, dog-ready, and built around connection.

Meet Paws & Porchlight: 🔗 bit.ly/4e0oL9R

#HousingJustice #ManufacturedHomes #PetsAndPeople

In the Trump 2.0 Era, ‘Organizing Is the Antidote’ Organizers say protecting communities means staying the course—organizing for housing rights, tenant protections, and political power.

As the Trump administration takes a more aggressive chainsaw approach to the safety nets and protections renters rely on, tenants organizers have had to respond quickly. Here's how they're meeting this uncertain moment. bit.ly/4lCB536

Study after study. Ordinance after ordinance.

Still—no link between criminalization and reduced homelessness.

Research confirms it: bit.ly/4nyBRPU

#housingnothandcuffs #shelterforce #data

For many renters, algorithms are setting the cost of their homes. A growing legislative push is aiming to stop it.

What cities are doing and why it matters: bit.ly/45abOqf

#AIRegulation #HousingJustice

📬 This Week in Shelterforce
✔️ ICE & HUD: A threat to immigrant families
✔️ Trump’s tax law and housing cuts
✔️ OT helps seniors age in place

Read more: conta.cc/4f6AF2J

#HousingEquity #AffordableHousing #Shelterforce

A poem in response a parishioner who called the cops on homeless people and asked, "How many homeless people do you want sleeping here?”

Watch or read here: bit.ly/4m9dLtA

#SocialJustice #FaithInAction #Homelessness

After a Six-Year Struggle, Tenants in Boston’s Mattapan Neighborhood Win Permanent Affordability When a new owner imposed sharp rent hikes in 2018, tenants organized and fought back. Now, more than 300 housing units will be affordable for the foreseeable future. Here’s how the tenants made it hap

Want to stop displacement?
Organize.
Fund housing trusts.
Back tenant leadership.

Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood just showed us how.

🎧 bit.ly/4lTzENq

#HousingJustice #TenantPower #BostonHousing #CityLifeVidaUrbana

Grassroots win: Organizing tenant voices in NYC helped a candidate win a primary. Mamdani's victory is driving the conversation on a rent freeze.

Read more:
bit.ly/4kJJL6B

#RentControl #TenantOrganizing

Encampment bans are rising, even though they don’t work.

A national study shows criminalization has no impact on homelessness.

Read here: bit.ly/4nyBRPU

#homelessness #urbanpolicy #research

What's Missing From HUD's Shrunken Website? HUD's new website is missing many of the resources that users relied on, including much of its archived content.

HUD’s overhaul took down more than just old PDFs—it erased essential tools advocates use to monitor housing discrimination and protect renters.

This matters.

🔗 bit.ly/405XLAa

#EquityInHousing #DigitalAccess #PublicAccountability #HUD

How Trump’s Tax Law Will Deepen Housing Insecurity Steep cuts are planned for social programs. Here's a look at what's in the tax law, along with a second bill that would slash housing funding if passed.

The president's tax law raises funding for LIHTC, but steep cuts to social programs will more than outweigh the benefits. Shelterforce and @nextcity.org take a closer look at what's in the tax law, along with a second bill that would slash housing funding if passed. Read here: bit.ly/44YyPO1

Housing as a Public Good: The State of Social Housing Today, a Shelterforce/NPQ webinar What do we mean by social housing in the United States? How has it worked in the past, and how should it be expanded?

“If we’re not centering racial justice in housing, we’re missing the point.”
- Fernando Martí

See the @‌Shelterforce + @‌NPQ Housing as a Public Good webinar. bit.ly/4klgFev

#SocialHousing #RacialJustice

Housing messaging dos and don'ts:

✔️ Focus on kids, health, and safety

✔️ Emphasize fairness & inclusion

❌ Avoid starting with history or commodification

Want to change minds? Start here:

bit.ly/46lwEoH

#HousingJustice #MessagingTips #EquityInNarratives