They are supposed to be the communicators, the coalition builders, the persuaders, the people who make things happen…..not those content to sit to the sidelines, idly hoping that well beyond their time in politics things might finally be sorted out. Take the idea of a 25 per cent fall i...
said david schwarte, who heads the texas neighborhood coalition. “how are they going to respond when they find out that the legislature just enabled the developer to come into their neighborhood and put up five houses on a lot that was once only one home?” how much...
One thing that helps bind an ideologically diverse pro-housing movement is that everyone in a community suffers when housing prices soar. Checking Zillow is a nonpartisan activity. The other thing keeping the coalition together is that, well, it’s barely a coalition at all. YIMBYs work in th...
“[This] housing stock is the reason working-class Angelenos are able to stay in Los Angeles,” said Laura Raymond, director of the ACT-LA coalition. “It doesn’t make sense to have this huge cornerstone of our housing policy solution be at risk.” Los Angeles is proposing changes becaus...
Despite the shifting policy agenda and rhetoric, both the Labour and Coalition Government visions of a low carbon housing future were deeply embedded within the techno-economic paradigm. Both Governments characterised the problem as about ‘changing buildings rather than about changing lifestyles’ [46]...
Recent Treasury analysis shows that, from 2000 to 2020, median rents increased by more than median incomes in counties covering 97 percent of the U.S. population. The National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that today, not a single state has sufficient housing available for low-income ...
We’re part of a coalition of not-for-profit organizations working in Silicon Valley. We all agree that on development, one need weighs heaviest: housing. San Jose’s high cost of housing drives people to cram into homes, leave our community forever or become homeless on our streets. More...
Deep-rooted racial residential segregation and housing discrimination have given rise to housing disparities among low-income Black young adults in the US. Most studies have focused on single dimensions of housing instability, and thus provide a partial
Understanding the socioecological contexts of gay men living with HIV is critical to addressing the environmental conditions that influence their lifetime experiences of housing insecurity and homelessness. In line with the strategies of the US Center fo
Without ignoring the negative consequences of residents’ alcohol use, it is important to acknowledge and openly explore their perceptions of both the pros and the cons of their behaviours (Denning, 2000, Harm Reduction Coalition, 2010). This recognition is not only evidence-based (Collins, Carey...